Abstract

Editorials

This article focuses on several political developments across the world as of September 1, 1879. It is difficult to overestimate the gravity of the news which has been received from Afghanistan, of the rising of the troops and populace at Kabul against Yakub Khan, and the massacre of the entire British Embassy, including its chief, Sir Pierre Cavagnari, so conspicuous in the late operations. The effect of this tragedy on both Indian and British politics is likely to be serious in the highest degree. The Hawaiian aborigines are decreasing; the total population of their islands is increasing. The movement of the population in the Hawaiian group, as shown by the census of December 1878, will not, indeed, attract attention on account of its magnitude.