26 OCTOBER 1878, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE JUSTICE OF THIS WAR. I T is time, as the Ameer will not yield, and British armies are gathering fast, to ask wherein consists the justice of this invasion of Afghanistan ?......

Sir Stafford Northcote's Apologies.

THE Chancellor of the Exchequer at Birmingham and Wolver- hampton was full of modesty. No one can charge him with feeling any approach to pride in the existence of the......