11 AUGUST 1883, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE OCCUPATION OF EGYPT. 11 R. GLADSTONE'S speech in the House of Commons on Thursday night will be a very serious disappointment to all those who had, with us, sincerely......

Thegovernment And The National Debt.

T HE Government is certainly to be congratulated on the division of Tuesday night, and still more on the faint- heartedness even of that part of the Opposition which was......