The Rumours Of Some Catastrophe Approaching In Central...
been increasing all the week, their chief basis being a statement current in Berlin and Perth, and repeated with every kind of detail, that the Russians are concentrating an......
The Times Publishes A Biography Of Abderrahman Khan, Who May
soon be the strongest claimant for the Afghan throne. He is the son of Afzul Khan, elder brother of Shere Ali, and, according to English ideas of primogeniture, natural......
Sir H. Layard Has Failed In His Last Fight With
the Turks. The Sultan handed him back Dr. Koller's manuscripts, the German Ambassador having taken up the Missionary's cause, but declined to dismiss Hafiz Pasha, alleging that......
But Little News Has Been Received From Afghanistan This...
and that little is not very promising. It is reported demi-officially that Mahommed Jan, before his flight, informed General Roberts that he should continue the war until the......
News Of The Week.
— 4 ,— Til news from the Transvaal is disquieting. The Boers l - feld their mass-meeting on December 10th, at Doom n Kop, and it was attended by some 6,000 persons, who passed......
Lord Derby Made A Very Striking Speech At Huddersfield On
Thursday, at the opening of a new school for technical educa- tion, on the prospects of revival in trade. He showed that, as compared with 1870, England is getting richer, not......
