15 APRIL 1871, page 1

The Commune Is Doing The Work Of A Regular Government,

and like regular Governments, finds discipline essential to military success. It has abolished the Battalions, which were too separate, one battalion being composed of workmen......

News Of The Week.

-4-- W E publish this week, as we have once or twice done before, two intentionally different views of the French situation,— one despondent, one hopeful. The two together will......

M. Thiers Has Not Advanced A Step Towards The Subjugation

of Paris. Troops are coming in daily from Germany, and Marshal MacMahon has accepted the supreme command, but up to Friday morning no advantage had been gained. On the contrary,......

Daring The Week One Great Effort At Compromise Has Been

made. The moderate party in the capital, the party which, distrusting the Reds, is still irritated by the "peasant government" of the last twenty years, has formed a Republican......

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On Easter Monday Mr. Goschen Dined With The Lord Mayor

at the Mansion House, and in answer to the toast of Her Majesty's 'Ministers made a remarkable speech, terse, weighty, and couched in that peculiar tone of dignity and......

No Event Of The First Importance Was Ever So Badly

reported in England as this civil war. The correspondents seem to rely on the newspapers on each side, which are full of partizan statements; they seldom attempt to be fair, and......

The Easter Monday Review Came Off On Monday As Usual

at Brighton. Some 24,000 men attended, and the manceuvres are said to have been creditably performed ; but it is argued that the Volunteers should not be asked to do in a review......