9 JANUARY 1897, page 6

The Command Before Khartoum.

I T would appear, in spite of all the inevitable denials, that the Government is going to Khartoum this year. It is still officially stated that all action to the south of Egypt......

Sir Edward Clarke On Irish Taxation.

S IR EDWARD CLARKE certainly shows no indis- position to force upon the Unionist Government the duty of accepting a defeat from its antagonists. A few weeks ago he was just too......