23 MARCH 1861, page 14

The Recent Politics Of Russia.

I T is one of the drawbacks of the telegraph that it con- denses history into epigrams. The blank factfi, stated without the details which qualify all action, acquire of ne-......

Secret Diplomacy In Affghanistan.

T HE Ministry, at the opening of the session, declined to produce a programme, and is now paying the penalty of the omission. The House of Commons, ennuyed with an unaccustomed......

The Progress Op Italian Unity.

I F there is one quality more than another in which Italians were supposed to be deficient, it was statesmanlike courage. If there is one quality more than another which Italian......