... the United States. The press of the country generally, however, and members of Congress speak of the whole inovement with the indifference with which they would speak of a squabble in Japan. ...

... should not have noticed the confusion of tongues which led the Saturday Review to talk of Belgian t Flemings as a French-speaking race and Walloons t as the speakers of a kind of Dutch, had there not 1 been on the same page an article pronouncing with ...

... The members have not taken the oaths, and possess, strictly speaking, no authority of their own. The chief clerk indicates, by pointing with his pen or finger, the members who are to speak, and if necessary puts the question to the House. A Speaker elect ...

... First and Second Empire, from which the following is an extract:- Since the Sdcle and the Terps speak openly of the downfall of the popes we may speak a little of the fall of the Second Empire. Napoleon the Third has fallen back: he is lost. He has ...

... eloquence betrays more art than passion. His brilliant images and telling epigrams are delivered in tones of measured cadence. He speaks rather slowly for a Frenchman, pronouncing each word with precision, caressing it, as it were, for an instant with the tongue ...

... such necessity. If a prince honours a ball with his presence, the dancing does not cease because he retires, nor need the speaking at a public dinner. Even when a Prince occupies the chair and has the whole ceremonial immediately under his superintendence ...

... the preqent)nolongeramember. (A laugb.) TheLord Mayor hbd frotten tht be hadplaced him in thedelicate position of heving to speak for.a body to whom he hoped to belong, though from, whom he was for the tino disassociated. How could he return tbapkv witiont ...

... LOUIS NAIPOLEON'S SPEECH AT AUXERRE. There can be no doubt that the speech of the Emperor of the French at Auxerre has, not to speak irreverently, the twang of the true Napoleonic vocabulary. The 1 true genius of France means of courae the true genius of ...

... Manchester on Saturday afternoon, when a telegram from Mr. Howard reached ?? office, stating that stamps, including prate he speaks very highliy of thep ma~nly iconduwctf the prisoebfrs, them, seemed to be anxious to repair the injury they had done, and ...

... you have flung on the masses of your fellow working countrymen, ignoring their prudence, self-reliance, and perseverance. Speaking of them, you say, 'if you want venality, ignorance, drunkenness, and the means of intimi. dation; if you want impulsive, ...

... sacrifice of principle on either hand, if the latter should sincerely seek it. I speak only of what I said and proposed, because I have no permission and io right to speak further. That my suggestions were not followed, nor anything akin to them, the public ...

... rent required for the suffrage are poorer for all practical purposes than the single men, and that they must be, generally speaking, more open to all kinds of intimidation and bribery, direct or indirect; indeed, we have the authority of Talleyrand for ...