31 JULY 1886, page 10

The Civil Service Commissioners' Report.

p IIBLIC opinion has undergone a great change since Lord Ellenborough, in denouncing open competition as "a homage to democracy," could venture to speak—with an insolence of......

A Late Harvest.

-I T is proverbial among farmers that a late harvest is never a good one. But this saying, like many others current among those who till the soil, had its origin in the days......