20 DECEMBER 1879, page 2

The Air Has Been Full This Week Of Rumours From

Russia, apparently started by the Lloyd, a Pesth journal of some standing, but repeated and amplified by Continental journals and correspondents. It was affirmed that the Czar......

Montenegro May Very Soon Be Compelled To Reopen The Eastern

Question. The Turks have fulfilled the Treaty of Berlin, as far as Russia is concerned—Russia being strong—with com- mendable promptitude. Montenegro, however, Greece, and......

Probably No Prime Minister Of Modern Times Has Come Near

Lord Beaconsfield in successfully misleading the people he is supposed to guide. Within about three months he has made two speeches to the City of London. On August 6th he said......

In The Gazette Of Tuesday Appeared A Proclamation Further...

Parliament till Thursday, February 5th, then to meet "for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs." The newspapers have also informed us that a Treasury circular has......

Mr. Diliwyn, M.p. For The Swansea Boroughs, Addressed His...

at Neath on Monday, and put very strongly the real issue before the country,—whether or not the country are so well pleased with the doings of the last six years, that they wish......

Destiny Is Sometimes Strangely Ironical. It Is More Than...

that Lord Beaconsfield will have destroyed two of the only three independent Mussulman States. The Sulta.not is dying, the Ameership is extinct, and in a few months the "......

Mr. Walter's Seat For Berkshire Is Seriously Threatened,...

being irritated at his steady support of some of the worst acts of the Government. Yesterday week he attended a meeting of the Newbury Liberal Association, at Newbury, to defend......

We Trust The Old Officers Of The Army Who Approved

the - suppression of independent Correspondence now perceive that secrecy is not equivalent to safety. General Roberts has gained nothing by his monopoly of intelligence, except......

The Donegal Election Was A Great Victory For The Liberalt

being not merely the gain of an Irish seat, but the gain a .air an Irish seat for a Liberal who has not pledged himself to 1 - j .f. the Home-rulers. Mr. Lea, the Liberal,......