... [WHITTEN TUB TEE tXMAILAIKII tIONWITECTIOLI SINCE my last notes, some three mor.ths ago, wars and.rumours of wars have been raging in South Africa. The Basuto war, which was caused through the passing of the Disarmament Act last session, has been carried ...

... commerce in all parts of the world. This is barefaced nonsense. It was threatened neither in Afghanistan nor in South Africa. The Afghan war was denounced as unnecessary and wicked by some of the ablest and most experienced Anglo-Indian statesmen, the late ...

... LIFE IN WESTERN AFRICA. DR. ROBERT D. Diva, of Coleraine, who was for some year! a member of an exploring party . who travelled through the portion of Africa principally watered by the River Niger, delivered a lecture in the Lecture-room of the First ...

... THE WAR IN EGYPT. THE news from the seat of war this week is most favourable and encouraging. The British miler and soldier are proving themselves to be worthy successors to the men who fought under Nelson and Abercrombie at the Nile and Alexandria, and ...

... power this country is involved in war every 19 months 2 weeks, whereas, when the Conservatives are in office, a war only occurs every 31 months. Thus the experience of half a century proves that the Liberals are the real war party, that they are, in a special ...

... SOUTH AFRICA. DEFEAT OF THE BRITISH TROOPS. 120 KILLED AND WOUNDED. NEWS has reached this country of an'action between the Boers and this British troops nese Middleburg, at which 200 soldiers are said to have been killed and 50 taken prisoners. The report ...

... 000. Be proposed to deal with the £8,000,000 odd which be had borrowed towards paying for the expenses of the wars in Turkey and South Africa, by providing for the immediate extinction of six millions by the creation of terminable annuities to last till ...

... remarkable escape from the bullets of the marksmen. At the conclusion of the war , Mr. Du-Val left Pretoria, and journeyed with bullocks , (all his horses having ham used up during the war) down to Potchefstroom and the Diamond Fields, from which latter place ...

... end, and by their attack on our troops on the 20th ult. have committed themselves to open rebellion and war. Like the devoted 24th in the Zulu war, it appears that 250 men of the 94th Regiment, whilst proceeding from Lydenburg to Pretoria with a train ...

... Dalkeith, on November 26th, 1879, by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone. The reference was to the Zulu war ; and the very words apply exactly to the Soudan war. Tea Comma 1317301111 A .-A correspondent, whose observations ow the weather at the autumnal equinox ...

... question before the spring there will be war. It is quite possible that there may be war ; but what is to some extent reassuring is that diplomacy is evidently very much in earnest in its endeavour to prevent war by arranging a settlement. The Great Powers ...

... mument's notice, •and between Ireland and civil war. Tim country is not pacified ; it is chained down. Again, when the Liberals clambered into power, they engaged to protect the etuptre against war or the rumour of war, and t.i save • the nation from the emb ...