From The Quetta Column, Under General Biddulph, There Is...
news, except that it has reached Pisheen, half-way to Candahar, unopposed, and that it has been in urgent want of warm clothing. A hiatus of three days in news from him is......
News Of The Week.
S O far, the Afghan campaign has been successful. General Sir S. Browne, after capturing Ali Musjid, as recorded last week, advanced rapidly through the Khyber, meeting with no......
Mr. Childers Brought Out This Most Effectively, In His...
at Pontefract on Wednesday. lie said that while we were " dreaming that all was quiet, we were slumbering on the volcano of second-rate Indian official Chauvinism ;" and tha......
Up To The Present Moment, The Afghan Soldiery, With Every
advantage of position, and plenty of cannon, have done nothing. They have not displayed either skill, or perseverance, or ordinary courage. Their want of pluck, indeed, has......
The Government, Moved, It Is Believed, Chiefly By The Legal
diffi- culty of obtaining money for the Afghan war without a Parlia- mentary Vote, has summoned Parliament for December 5th. It is believed that the Houses will sit till......
Our Impression That The Despatch Of Lord Cranbrook Was Far
from candid in its dealings with the history of the Afghan quarrel, has been much more than confirmed by the papers published and the facts elicited since its publication. In......
