... great political upheavals on the Continent: more especially in France. The English people at the time were afraid of a French invasion, something similar to the one we dread at present from the Germans. Cobden had severely denounced the Government of the day ...

... something in the air, a something strange and subtle, an intolerable foreign atmosphere like a penetrating odour—the odour of invasion. It permeated dwellings and places of public, resort, changed the taste of food, produced a sensation of travel in far-distant ...

... interests of land and ta.pital. These laws obviate the necessity for a oontinuous discussion of what metl constitutes an invasion of property rights. A aeries of principles ace propounciod and embodied in these laws, against which, if any law offend, ...