Abstract

Special Correspondence

This article presents information regarding political and economic developments around the world. The great struggle of the parliamentary session is about to begin. It is a struggle of paramount importance, not in its immediate effects, but as a mark of the tendencies of the new republican Government. A report has been read to the Chamber on the subject of the new law on public education. The war in Afghanistan is over, and the English people, absorbed in the excitement of the Zulu war, have dismissed it from their minds as if it had no more of a practical interest for them than the siege of Troy. The peace, however, which has been arrived at is but a patched-up affair dictated by political necessities at home-settling nothing, and effecting nothing beyond the placing of the British Government in a position which leaves them no alternative except to evacuate Afghanistan altogether, or to incorporate it with the British Empire in India.