8 MARCH 1879, page 1

There Is Little News From Natal, Beyond The Confused...

from Lord Chelmsford on the disaster at Isandula, which is criti- cised elsewhere; and a mass of letters, giving many details of the same affair, but adding very little to our......

M. De Marcere Has Ceased To Be The French Minister

of the Interior, in consequence of his extraordinary weakness in relation to the inquiry concerning the secret misd.oings of the French police. That inquiry was set on foot in......

The Amnesty Bill Of The New French Government, Which...

a large number of the Communists,—i.e., blots out legally all record of the offences of a good many of those who were punished for the misdeeds of the Commune in 1871,—passed......

It Is Difficult, Perhaps Impossible, To Estimate Exactly...

tude of the Boers of the Transvaal, but the facts known justify Sir Bartle Frere's apprehensions. They have remained hitherto neutral between Cetewayo and the British, even......

News Of The Week.

THY death of Shere All is officially confirmed in a letter from akoob Khan to Lord Lytton, in which he speaks of his father as an old friend of the British, and alludes to some......

The Successor To M. De Marcere In The Interior Is

to be M. Lepere, the Minister of Commerce, an able speaker, and said to be on terms of confidential intimacy with M. Gambetta. To the Ministry of Commerce, M. Tirard, one of the......

*** The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript In Any

case.......