11 OCTOBER 1879, page 4

The Silence Of The Ministry.

W E wonder if the Government has a surprise, or what it. thinks a surprise, in store for us. For months past, indeed ever since the rising of Parliament, it has expressed by its......

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GENERAL ROBERTS'S • ADVANCE UPON CABUL. B ETWEEN Lord Lytton's childish impatience of criticism and the wrath of the Ghilzai clansmen at our invasion, Englishmen at home as yet......