5 OCTOBER 1878, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE FIRST STEP IN THE AFGHAN WAR. L ORD LYTTON has neither repented nor stood firm ; but has adopted, we greatly fear, a compromise combining most of the evils of delay with all......

The "bankruptcy Of India."

T HE police of the proposal to exempt India from the expenses of the new Afghan War is only superficial. We heartily wish we could think otherwise, and agree with Mr. Fawcett,......