20 OCTOBER 1888, page 7

The Viceroy On The Improvement In Ireland.

I T is impossible to doubt that when the Lord-Lieutenant claimed, as he did in his Belfast speech, that Ireland has immensely improved in the last year, he was fairly and......

The Fall Of '11:11. Afghan Pretender.

lATE have never shared in the apprehensions created in some quarters by the rebellion of Ishak Khan His insurrection was important, but only because the Ameer of Afghanistan,......

M11. Ritchie.

ATOTHING in English public life is more curious _1 1 .1, than the way in which, in each party, a kind- of informal rank is conferred upon certain of the leading states- men......