6 APRIL 1878, page 4

Topics Of The Day.

THE BUDGET. T HE Budget is a timid affair. If the Government really expect war,—which, however, we must do Sir Stafford Northcote the justice of saying that he himself does not......

Lord Salisbury's Despatch.

T HE Pall Mall Gazette of Tuesday adopted Lord Salisbury's Despatch as one of its own leading articles, whence we may infer that in the opinion of that journal the Government......