4 AUGUST 1877, page 2

Peace Is Concluded Between Egypt And Abyssinia, On Terms...

make the miserable war between the Khedive and King John a drawn battle. The old frontiers are to be restored, and the Bogos country will be given to Egypt ; and on the other......

The Famine In Southern India, Which Is Now Inevitable, Will,

it is feared, be a terrible one. Lord Salisbury, in a speech on Friday week at the Engineers' College on Cooper's Hill, spoke in a tone which, considering his responsibility,......

Mr. Whalley, Useful For Once, On Tuesday Asked Sir Stafford

Northcote whether the Treasury would ask for any vote to defray the expense of the increase in the Mediterranean garrisons ; and whether he would, before the close of the......

The American Railroad Strikb Appears To Have Ended, But A

new and serious one has been begun by the Pennsylvanian colliers, who have occupied Scranton, nearly killing the Mayor, have seized the Lehigh Valley Road, and attempted to......

Marshal Macmahon Made His Expected Speech At Bourges On...

week, but it comes to very little. He declared that he wished to "maintain peace I" to "protect the men of order of all parties, not only against subversive passions, but......

The Austrian Government Has Decided, In View Of Possible-...

north of the Balkans, to mobilise 90,000 men, and has borrowed 23,000,000 for the purpose. It is anxiously explained, however, that this movement is not intended as a menace to......

A Long-threatened Split In The Home-rule Party Will, It Is

believed, be brought about by the action of the obstructionists. Mr. Butt has called a meeting of the party for next Monday, de- manding either that the new faction should be......

The Death Of Mr. Ward Hunt, The First Lord Of

the Admiralty, at Homburg, was announced in London on Monday. He had long been seriously ill from a complication of diseases, of which gout was the least dangerous, and though......