26 APRIL 1879, page 7

The Proposal To Buy Off A Tax.

T HE great Railway Companies have shown more statesman- ship than the Chancellor of the Exchequer. They have refused to offer what he had distinctly intimated, in his reply to......

The Russtan Spasm Of Repression.

O NE point of high importance comes out strongly in this Russian crisis. The internal administration of the Empire is not in strong hands. The Emperor, who once or twice in his......