15 FEBRUARY 1879, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE DISASTER IN SOUTH AFRICA. C ETEWAY0 has justified Sir Bartle Frere's rash policy thus far. The Zulu King has shown that he possessed an army which could at any moment have......

The Duke Of Argyll On Lord Lytton.

T HE Duke of Argyll's shell is a very formidable shell indeed, but it is fired somewhat too late in the day to produe the sort of confusion and demoralisation which it might......

The Meeting Of Parliament.

T HERE is very little to be said about the opening of the Session, except that it has been opened, and that the Majority manifest a certain indefinable but unmistakable change......