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Lord Hartiugton On Friday Se'nnight Took Advantage Of A...

of the Radnorshire Agricultural Society, to bid farewell to the Radnor Burghs, and define his relation towards the Land Laws. Ho had not, he said, been so presumptuous as to......

Mr. Parnell Is, Apparently, Serious In His Idea Of Calling

an Irish " Convention " or informal Parliament, but does not quite know how to set about it. At a meeting of the Home-rule League, hold on Thursday in Dublin, he carried a......

Lord Lytton Has Prohibited Special Correspondents From...

about to invade Afghanistan, though the papers are to be allowed to employ Staff officers. The motive of that order, we fear, is to conceal the severities which are too often......

Mr. Grant Duff Made On Thursday A Long And Able

speech to his constituents at Elgin, one main point of which was this. The Liberal party had a definite foreign policy—andit was Palmer- ston's — to support everywhere the cause......

Five Thousand Austrian Troops Entered The District Of...

Monday, as previously arranged, and after feeling their way in very cautious marches, arrived on Thursday at. Plevje. They met with no resistance, the Turks falling back ; but......

The Ministry Has Broken Silence Upon The Afghan News. The

Daily News of Wednesday published a synopsis, telegraphed from Lahore, of the warnings which had been forwarded to that city by Persian " news-writers iu Cabal." They were sent,......

The St. Petersburg Gazette States That The British...

before terminating the independence of Afghanistan, must come to an arrangement with that of Russia, as the mili- tary occupation of the whole country would be a breach of the......

As We Shall Hear A Groat Deal By-and-by Of Persian

news-writers, we may as well say that these men are extremely useful servants both of the Government and the newspapers. They are credulous and gossipy, and sometimes, no doubt,......

The Times' Correspondent At Belgrade States That Arrange-...

been made for a meeting of the Princes of the States of the Bulgarian peninsula, and that arrangements for a league for mutual defence will shortly be completed. It is not......