The Friend of India and Statesman Friday November 1st 1878

The intense hatred of Russia that is felt in high quarters at borne in conjunction with the foolish proceedings of the military clique in Russia render the chances of a direct collision in Eastern Europe and the Baltic more likely than the insidious pass to a death grapple by way of the Khyber and English ignorance. [...] The Affghan Agent was charged with the duty of personally acquainting the Sultan with the resolutions taken by the Amir regarding the question of the diplomatic relations between Affghanistan and Turkey. [...] -„-Accerding to the same authority the ruling disposition in the SnItanle Council up to the end of September was on the who unfavourable to the English scheme of reforms in ( Asia Minor. [...] Abdul Aria had personally patronised the two brothers and while Hassan took to the evil courses described above the other twin Osii111 Abdul having completed his education in the military school entered the third regiment of the Turkish Guards and served in the late war as Adjutant of Kurd Ismail Pasha the hem of the massacre at Bayazid and of the rout at Deveboyun. [...] But before wo can eetitnate the value of that liberty we ought to know where the Government lays down the bouudaries of its "fair field." We point out these email matters partly for the sake of reading Sir Alexander Arbuthnot a lesson m the use of diplomatic language and partly because it is necessary to warn the public that it is impossible to place too much confidence in the boast of the Gove