News Of The Week.
Tn news from Afghanistan is threatening, though up to Friday it was not reported in the Times, which appears to be careless of its old role as the first newspaper in the world,......
Sir Garnet Wolseley, Though A Good General, Lacks, We Fear,
tact as a Governor. In his speech at Pretoria, which has greatly irritated the Boers, he told them that it was impossible to grant them representative government, for 2,000 men......
The Correspondent Of The Standard, Evidently A...
probably inspired, telegraphs, in very decided lan- guage, his view of the need that the Government should declare its policy. Till then, all is unrest and excitement. The......
The Liberals And Tories Have Settled On The Candidates Who
are to contest the seat for Liverpool vacated by the death of Mr. J. Torr. The Liberals have accepted Lord Ramsay, eldest son of the Earl of Dalhousie, and representative of the......
Sir William Harcourt Made A Most Entertaining As Well As
instructive speech at Birmingham on Tuesday, which he began by complimenting Birmingham on being selected rather specially by the Conservatives as the centre of their......
Sir William Harcourt Defended, In An Equally Amusing...
practice of political prophecy, as the ordinary work and duty of statesmen, showing that it is nothing but the habit of inferring by experience of the past to the probabilities......
