18 DECEMBER 1880, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE IRISH CRISIS. I T does not signify much, now that Parliament is to meet so soon, but we would warn our readers to believe but little of what they hear of " Cabinets."......

Sir Charles Dilke And Lord Salisbury.

IN Sir Charles Dilke, Lord Salisbury has met more than his match,—his match in oratory, and much more than his match in that precision of statement and scrupulous regard for......