... NOTES ON THE AFGHAlt CAM- PAIG N.I [From ott owA Corrtspondcnt.] LAhHolto, Decenber 5. The lapse of a fortnight has enabled us to look a,t the taking of Ali btusjicl calmly and dispassion- ately, and most of us begin to acknowledgo that, i thile usual luck oi the Britislz arnly, we havor blundered somlellow into a victory by tactics which WoUldli hase rendered a defeat a greater probability. ...

... (Fom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PAnes, December 20, This is an age of scepticism, when old-fashioned, well-established beliefs are submitted to the rude test of practical experience. As the truths of religion and even the maxims of morality have been roughly handled of late, it need not be a matter for wonder that the axioms of political economy appear less self. evident to-day than they did a ...

... THlE PRESENT AF(UHAN DYNASTY. m sia] fnr. - ij I ia - -A -- A b. - AA7 - -1. A ..1 A Few ruling families have produced such a series of notable characters as the present dynasty in Cabul, and if we throw back oir glauce to a slightly more remote period, and include in our retrospect the great and tlrst Duran, Ahmed KIhan, of the Sudosye house, it may be said that the Afghan monarchs are ...

... AND JOUR-NAL. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1979. NEWS OF THlE DAY. The Grand Duke of Tliaqssn-Dnm)F.sDAnr, the hiusband of the late Princess Aonl, svill, with his children, shortly pay a visit to Hor Majesty the QUIEEN, at Osborne. 'Elhe City of Ghtsgow Bank directors were served in Glasgowi vitlh ithir indictin~enits last nigtht. Their trial is fixed for the 20th of January. At a meeting of ...

... THE ROMAN REMAINS AT LINCOLN, - L 1 il. ftn l. -jlfl fl'.J flf jL s2As. - AL the second meeting of the new session of the British writb oit8 Noranciation an Interesting paper was read by in Aroughsotoiak Assone3f.M nd we ffnd thenremains the u; the Rev. S. M a. Myhw, one of the VIpe o r, ntb. on te P discoveries recently made at Lincoln, the Coloniu Linden of ati the Romans, and with ...

... Civid Obtninald VtWd. THE BULGARIAN ASSEMBLY. DREUTER-S TELEGRAM.) ?? Dec. 30.-The number of members of the Bulgarian Assembly, \hich is to mect at Tirnova on the i8th of January, will be 290. T'he Bulgarian Exarch was not, as was at filst arranged, to attend the Assembly ; but it appears now that he will be present in his capacity as Bisho | uf Loftcha, preserving at the same time his title ...

... ntatigfl Jn telligelt.e THE AFGHAN WAR. d ow wee' THE PLIGHT OF THlE AMBER. Chile Capt KoontUM FORT, Tuesday. till The news of the Ameer's flight to Tashkettd is con-ar firmed. All pooeerlhad slipped front his grasp, and the tarm government is now vested in Yakoob Khan. und Desertions from the Afghan army are continual, are I TUE AMEEWS PROCLAMATION. Koo1nu3 (ru~aanko TiJWLL), Tuesday. The ...

... THE L.EEDS MERCURY. TIIE National Zeitung (Berlin) says that SHtERn AL having taken refugee at BIlI;i, the Russiau Goveronment will be saved s omo trouble and responsi- bility. It adds that there will be no need now to watch his movements or to intern him. ACCORDING to a Constantinople telegram, dated yesterday, ADnMInL oaIL-n3Y ?? informed cIa, ILNray LAYAIRD that the fleet under his ...

... I REDUC TON OF WAGES. I -I THREATENED STRIKE AT RAYMTON a DIXON AND CO.'S. Messrs Raylton Di-on and Co. are about to close their works, owing to a section of their men having refused to accept a reduction of five per cent. in their wages. About six hundred men will be thrown out of employment, the larger por- t tion of whom are quite willing to work at the re-t daction proposed. a a TEN PER ...

... THE BANMK FILURES. _1 'LEIt i T (iF THE ( TY OF GLASGOW a et Be tEANK LIi DATORS. pis] he Ti t- folluwing report jeen supplied officially: ma ler - it a meeting of aidators of the City of ic. Glasgow Bank, hL a sy afternoon, a divi- ie- deno :iviould havi e ! -ed payable at the end g of .Jwnaary bu ircimstanco that the 1 trial of tbe d. 'he bank has, it is underst.cod, 'L ?? Ou the th '(tth of ...

... METEOROLOGJICAL RETPORT;. , DAILY NEWS OFviC% 1Readingtj tlds irorj; ar/ h? NEORET''[ AND Z.V11BRA'S BARC .ULTEll. 20N'. ?? 30 TVE. L* ITD. so.- 20 T=S d|- k . a!S=3- j-- 'i ?? . q'S1' -i6. - f_91!Xa i'orret't ii to sea-lt vel. and redfuoccl to 32J r' TIve blaib 'in'rt .0io'v tih? hejzlit of the bartot'iet!r at I *t;. this 'nd thvz e rieitt tift 'flrhn doet 1;l Ytf irli ea I eX~r;t: ...

... STABBING A PUBLICAN AT BORUOWASH. At the Derby County Police Court on Friday, before 0. I F. Mleynell and H. F. Gisborne, .qD., Charles Shore was I charged with unlawfully woundinR Wim. Boden, by stabbiug I him at borrowash, on Christmas veo. -Mr. Briggs appeared for the -prisoner, who Is a cattle dealer. at Borrowash, arnd the prosecutor Is landlord oE the Noah's Ark publichouse, at the same ...