7 SEPTEMBER 1878, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

AUSTRO-HUNGARY IN BOSNIA. D UAL Government, the Irish Home-rulers' ideal, what- ever its other results in Austro-Hungary, has certainly not increased the power of the Monarchy......

The Tragedy On The Thames.

T HERE was nothing, or very little, of human perversity in the catastrophe which destroyed the Princess Alice,' a Thames pleasure-steamer, on Tuesday ; but with that exception,......