13 JANUARY 1894, page 4

Topics Of Ttie Day.

AMERICAN INSOLVENCY. F IVE years ago American Finance was the envy of the world. Taxation was not oppressive, the debt was being paid off at a rate beyond the dreams of economy,......

Valllant On His Defence. T He Paper Which Valliant Read In

his self-defence, after he was found guilty of the act by which he threatened so many lives, and actually injured some fifty of his fellow-citizens,—many of them not members of......