26 JANUARY 1895, page 20

M. Faure And His Ministers.

A FRENCHMAN is an Irishman with a mathematical brain, and nine times out of ten, when a " crisis" is approaching in France, he pulls himself together, looks the situation in the......

• Topics Of The Day Sir William Harcourt Breaks Silence.

S IR WILLIAM HARCOURT has broken silence at last ; but either the gloom of the situation or some personal depression has paralysed his usually bright and vivid tongue. We have......