7 JANUARY 1871, page 2

Is There Not A Shoemaker Of Genius In The World

who can give the world a shoe which will stand a month or two of hard work ? Are we really limited to leather for our feet.? It is quite clear that one of the main......

Lord Mayo Appears To Be Determined To Bring The Public

Works Department in India into better order. One of the buildings of the gun-carriage factory at Allahabad recently fell in and killed people, and it was discovered on inquiry......

In The East Of France The Germans Seem Retiring Rapidly

on Vesoul, the statement being made yesterday from Berlin that even the siege of Langres (which lies nearly forty-five miles due north of Dijon) had been raised by their forces......

Elsewhere The Week Has Not Been Remarkable. General...

of General Chanzy's subordinates, has gained some outpost successes near Vendome ; and General Roy, in Normandy,, on the left bank of the Seine, has been defeated, and lost two......

Prussia Has Gained This Week One Compensation For Her...

She is rid of her Minister of Education. Herr Miihler, a man entitled to the distinction of being at once the feeblest and the most obstinate obscurantist that ever lived. A......

Mr. Vernon Harcourt Also Addressed The Druids. He...

we were entering on that "period of dark eclipse " called foreign policy, a policy of which he had never seen any good come. Mr. Cardwell was the martyr of one of those panics......

Count Von Bismarck Recently Announced To The Austrian...

events had united Germany, notwithstanding the Treaty of Prague, and that his master had been invited to assume the Imperial Crown. The reply of the Emperor, to whom this......

The King Of Prussia Held A Great Official Reception At

Versailles on New Year's Day, and told the Princes and officers present that "they had not yet reached the goal, important tasks being still before them, before they arrived at......

The Return Of Mr. Martin For The County Of Meath

is a signifi- cant event. The premier county of Ireland has chosen, instead of Mr. Plunkett, a Catholic aristocrat of unblemished character, backed by Cardinal Cullen and the......

Mr. Cardwell Attended The Annual Dinner Of The Ancient...

at Oxford on Monday, and in answer to the toast of the Army, took the opportunity of defending his administration of his depart- ment. He denied that he had disbanded 20,000......