18 JANUARY 1879, page 1

General Stewart Has Entered Candahar Unopposed, The...

looking on passively, and the Hindoo citizens being delighted. His column and that of General Biddulph met at Takht-i-pal, the junction-point of the Khojak and Gwaja Passes, on......

News Of The Week.

T HE event of the week is the very unexciting programme read by the French Ministers to both Chambers on Thursday,— in the Senate, by M. Dufaure ; in the Chamber of Deputies, by......

The Unintelligible Point In The Situation On The...

is the collapse, for the moment at any rate, of all fight- ing-power in Afghanistan. If the influence of the Barukzye family had perished, the known facts would be explicable,......

Sir William Harcourt Made At Oxford On Tuesday The Most

brilliant, as well as the most weighty, attack on the Government which has yet been delivered by any of the Liberal leaders. Of the chief points of his speech we have given a......

On The Subject Of Cyprus, Sir William Harcourt Was Very

amusing. Quoting Mr. Brassey, to show that " the British administrators of Cyprus hold the unworthy office of tax- gatherers for a bad Government," he pointed out that we had......

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