17 JANUARY 1880, page 1

And In Afghanistan The Case, Said Sir.w. Harcourt, Was Even

worse. There, the gain which the Government promised, which they boasted of having secured, had turned to the heaviest possible burden in our hands. The scientific frontier,......

Sir William Harcourt Delivered An Address At A Dinner Of

his Oxford constituents on Tuesday, which was full of his char- acteristic force and vivacity, and which has, of course, therefore been branded by the saturnine journals which......

News Of The Week.

THE Sultan has revenged himself for Sir H. Layard's lectures by inflicting on him a public humiliation. It will be remembered that Lord Derby, when Foreign Secretary, demanded......

0 Wing To The Death Of Mr. John Torr, The

junior Member, which occurred on Friday, there will be a contest for Liverpool before the next general election. The event was unexpected, but the Liberals will not bewithont a......

The News From Afghanistan Is Slight, The Viceroy Allowing As

little as possible to be reported, but that which is received is The news from Afghanistan is slight, the Viceroy allowing as little as possible to be reported, but that which......

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