24 NOVEMBER 1883, page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK A DISASTER which may prove of most grave importance, both to England and France, has happened in the Soudan. Colonel Hicks, a retired Bombay officer in the......

M. Ferry Is Unlucky. We Have Just Mentioned Elsewhere The

great stake held by France in this affair, and may add here that Mahommed Ahmed was reported months ago to be in full communication with the chiefs of the great monastic......

• * The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript, In

any case.......

Mr. W. E. Forster Presided Yesterday Week At An Aggregate

meeting of the Metropolitan Liberal Councils at the Cannon- Street Hotel, and made an excellent speech on the necessity for a reform of the present government of London, which......

The Tories Are Evidently Going To Resist The Municipal Bill

for London with their whole strength. The Lord Mayor, a typi- cal Tory, on Monday made to the Turners' Company the bold and foolish speech criticised elsewhere, in which he......

-general Hicks Was Accompanied By Nine English Officers...

commands ; by Mr. O'Donovan, the able corre- spondent of the Daily News ; and by an artist employed by a German illustrated paper, who is, we have some impression, an......

The Egyptians Apply The Rather Absurd Name Of "the Soudan"

to the whole of their dependent Empire, stretching from the Third Cataract for an indefinite distance towards the Lakes, and from the Red Sea to the western border of Darfur.......