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By Far The Most Serious News Yet Received From Natal

is the uni- versal testimony to the headlong daring of the Zulus. Their leaders, when once resolved on attack, do not care how many men they lose, but carry their regiments......

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The Debate On Mr. Dillwyn's Motion For A Special Finance

Committee, to revise the Civil Service Estimates before they are submitted to the House, was a very remarkable and in- structive one. The sensation of the debate was the......

The Times Of Tuesday Stated That Leo Xiii. Had "intimated

his desire to raise Dr. Newman to the rank of Cardinal, and that with expressions of deep respect for the Holy See, Dr. Newman has excused himself from accepting the purple." We......

Monday And Thursday Were Spent By The Government In The

House of Commons in making very little progress with resolu- tions concerning the order of business which, if carried, would have been of no manner of use, while they would......

News Of The Week.

N EWS has been received from the Cape by telegraph from Madeira down to January 29th. So far as it goes, it must be pronounced favourable ; but it goes a very little way. The......

No Further Explanation Of The Disaster At Insandusana Has...

published in this country. The colonial belief is that the camp was wrongly pitched, in a place where it could be commanded from all sides, and that precautions had not been......