4 OCTOBER 1884, page 7

The South African Muddle.

TEE news from South Africa is as usual very dispiriting, and it is not to be wondered at that the cynical immorality which has distinguished the recent proceedings of the Boers......

The Defence 01' Khartoum.

- WE are unable to understand the popular view of the defence of Khartoum. In what way does the narra- tive of General Gordon's operations there prove that the Government were......