... a more influential Liberal member. We have been accustomed to so much mismanage- ment and jobbery in the allotment of the Civil List pensions that we ought perhaps to receive in silence the .names of the persons most recently added. We have no wish to ...

... was Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, and it was mainly owing to his energy and persistence that limited, and even- tually open, competition was substituted for patronage in public appointments. Of late the scope of the Civil Service Commission ...

... manulacturers as against the power by feudal tenure. The middle and working-classes were united as no theory, no Charter, no merely heroic issue could have united them. The cheap Press was teaching the reasun- ableness of the Chartiet poitrs; there was ...

... statesmen of the two countries. If Russia with her resistless power by land, and England with her resistless power by sea, were to unite for the purpose of settling the Eastern difficulty once for all, there is no other Power in Europe that would seek to lift ...

... Ultramontanes were SulpruSed by the signal character of their defeat. The lai-flej larists, who are opposed to strict national unit, rould neither make any way. In several of the laager tOW11' especially at Berlin, almost the totality of the ?? returned belong ...

... come to such a pass in France that it is now hardly possible to see any middle way between the resignation of the Marshal and Civil War. Moderate Republicans long clung to the policy of retain- ing the Marshal and revising the Constitution, but a redefinition ...

... is binding. It will be recollected that the same point arose in the course of the recent arbitration between Canada and the United States respecting the fisheries on the coast of the latter, and that the question was there dropped rather than definitely ...

... to com- pare the Civil List with the salary of the United States Pre- sident, for the simple reason that there is no analogy what- ever between the President of the Republic on the one hand, and a king on the other. Whether our Civil List is larger than ...

... simple arithmetical form: Suppose the corn or staple food required to nourish the popu- lation in the Eastern portion of the United States and all Western Europe to be represented by ioo, of which each separate country contributes a quota. Taking France ...