28 SEPTEMBER 1878, page 1

No Step Whatever Has Yet Been Taken Towards The "

reform " of Asia Minor. We are told every week that Sir Austen Layard has a "scheme," and that it is approved by Safvet Pasha, who always approves everything in words, but that......

News Of The Week.

A CCORDING to telegrams of September 26th from Calcutta, published in the Times and Telegraph, the Government of India is not about to act so rapidly as the telegrams referred......

As We Expected, Shere Ali Has Determined To Fight, Rather

than give up his independence. The necessity of a decision before the winter seems to have hurried Lord Lytton, and on September 21st, Sir Neville Chamberlain, with an immense......

In Spite Of All Reports To The Contrary, The Russians

have steadily continued the evacuation of their positions near Con- stantinople. The lines of San Stefano have been occupied by the Turks. Much of the apparent delay was caused......

The Advocates Of The Government Policy Say That Lord Lytton

is quite ready. In that case, he must have intended war from the first, and has been playing a comedy, but we believe this is only an after-thought. If he had intended war, he......

The British Government Has, Of Course, Under The Circum-...

which its folly and panic dread of Russia have produced, only two alternatives. It can recall Lord Lytton, and treat the whole affair as a blunder, or it can invade Afghanistan......

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