25 OCTOBER 1879, page 5

The Sultan.

T HE English public just now exaggerates the effect of Ministerial changes in Turkey. They sometimes mean much, but just at this moment the power of the Sultan, always enormous,......

Lord Derby's Adhesion.

T, ORD DERBY'S deliberate adhesion to the Liberal Party, which is now an understood thing, is an event which eaunot but exorcise a considerable influence on both Tory. and......

The Abdication Or Yakoob Khan.

T HIS is melancholy news from Afghanistan. There is no reason to doubt . that Yakoob Khan ' unable to bear the position to which. his alliance with the British has reduced him,......