News Of The Week.
A NOTHER and most audacious attempt has been made to assassinate the Emperor of Russia. On Tuesday, the 17th instant, the Czar had fixed seven o'clock for dinner, at the Winter......
We Do Not See Much Use In The Conventional Abhorrence
ex- pressed of crimes like these. They are murders, and when innocent lives are risked, murders unredeemed even by the pretence of political motive, but they deserve morally no......
Reuter Telegraphs From Calcutta That Sir G. P. Colley Has
been appointed Governor and High Commissioner of Natal,— and we presume of the Transvaal,—in succession to Sir Garnet Wolseley. He has also been appointed to command the troops......
Telegrams From Constantinople Have Been Allowed To Pass...
wires announcing that the Sultan intends to appoint Mahmoud Nedim Grand Vizier. This appointment would mean that all dependence upon Great Britain has been abandoned, that the......
It Would Appear That The British Government Is Not Quite
satisfied in its conscience with the last arrangement suggested for Egyptian finance. Under that arrangement, more than half the Egyptian revenue—that is, half the entire......
