27 DECEMBER 1879, page 2

The Popular Speech To The Great Audience In The Afternoon

was much feebler. With regard to the Afghan war, Sir Staf- ford maintained that the proof recently given of the formidable and deadly hostility of the Afghan people to our......

Mr. Gladstone Is Assailed, Of Course, For Everything And...

he writes, but we should hardly have thought it worth while to assail him for saying that, strongly as he had publicly recommended, and still recommends, the concession of......

The Importance Of The French Crisis Is Immensely...

England. There seem to be a number of politicians who enjoy nothing BO much as thanking God that England is not as other nations are, and least of all as this France,—that......

There Was A Conservative Demonstration In Leeds This Day...

on the scale of the Liberal demonstration of No- vember, when Mr. Forster, the Duke of Argyll, and Sir Wilfrid Lawson spoke, but still one of largo numbers and much enthu-......

Mr. Bourke, The Under-secretary For Foreign Affairs, And...

the Under-Secretary for India, both addressed the afternoon meeting ; Mr. Bourke maintaining that the private agreement between Russia and England, before the Congress of......

The French Crisis Drags. It Seems Clear That M. De

Freycinet is the Primo Minister designate, but not clear whether or not he can form a Cabinet, or lay down a line of policy of which M. Gr6vy will approve. Hitherto, M. Gr6vy......

The Conservatives Are Going To Contest The London...

the next election, and for that purpose have put forward Mr. Arthur Charles, Q.C., the eminent counsel so well known in the Ecclesiastical Courts. They could not have chosen a......