7 SEPTEMBER 1878, page 6

The Menace To Afghanistan.

T HE telegram from Calcutta published in the Times of Monday is a very ominous one. The Russian Govern- ment, it would appear from all the evidence, while ex- pecting a......

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,......