25 SEPTEMBER 1880, page 2

There Is Every Probability Of A R.evr War In South

Africa. The Government of the Cape have cent the Mounted Rifles into Basutoland, and parties of them have been attacked twice,—one by 1,200 natives and another by 5,000. They......

We Suggested Last Week That Edinburgh Might Be First To

try the experiment of applying the Hare scheme to municipal elee- tions, and the citizens seem doubtful if the hint was an imper- tinence or a compliment. We intended neither,......

Mr. Parnell Made A Most Parnellite Speech To A Land

meeting at Ennis on Saturday. He had felt, he said, the necessity of modifying the policy of his party, in presence of a -Liberal Government; but as yet, though that Government......

The Times, Which, As A Rule, Keeps Theology Out Of

its columns, except when it reports a Bishop's Charge, has ad- mitted a letter from Dr. Parker, pastor of the City Temple, advocating a new confession of faith. Dr. Parker......

Lord Norton Is A Man With Convictions, And His Convictions

are all in accord with those held by the bulk of his countrymen. Consequently, they are most creditable to him. Still, when he gives the world his reasons for them, he should......

The Conduct Of The Cape Government Is The More Lamentable,

because the Basutos have shown a special aptitude for civilisa- tion. Mr. T. W. Irvine, who knows them, even states that, although utterly ruined by their conflict with the......

The People Of The District Round Loughrea Have Explained...

view of Mr. Parnell's advice about sending to Coventry offending tenants who take land vacated by evictions with great clearness. A man named Hynes bid for some land belonging......

M. De Molinari, A French Economist, A Belgian By Birth,

who has been travelling in Ireland, has published in the Debate the results of his inquiries into the condition of the people. He thinks the distress real, 200,000 of the small......