... FIRST EDITION, 2.30 p.m. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) SIMLA, Sept. 8.-Three mutinous Afghan regiments are reported to have marched from Cabul. The behaviour of the frontier tribes is not at present unfavourable. In official circles, Ayub Khan and other chiefs are suspected of having incited and being implicated in the revolt at Cabul. The Viceroy has telegraphed to. the Home Government requesting ...

... News was current yesterday in Bombay, and was telegraphed to England, that Yakoob Khan was dead; but it was not pretended that any authenticated information had been received from Cabul. So far as appears, the Indian Government are still in ignorance of the state of affairs in the Afghan capital. A statement has been published, which is traced to Shikarpore merchants trading with Central Asia ...

... FIRST EDITION, 230 p.m.3 (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) SIMLA, Sept. 29, 2.15 P.M.-Tabir Khan, Governor of Khelat-i-Ghilzai, has written a letter to Major St. John, expressing pleasure at the approach of the British forces and promising supplies of provisions. The British force from Candahar will probably advance upon Ghuzne. Cholera is decreasing in the 9th Regiment. (FROM THE SECOND EDITION OF THE ...

... THE most eminent of French journalists, after a bitter criticism of the Pilgrimages to Lourdes and La Salette, which have been this year more numerously attended than ever, and probably all the more numerously attended through the feud between the French Government and the Church, ends his article with the question, Where in all this is the place of Jesus Christ? The question is directly ...

... IN spite of the embarrassments and reverses which so persistently beset and befall the Government in foreign affairs, their political prospect, at home has within the last fortnight sensibly improved. The causes of that improvement can be traced with perfect ease and certainty. The Government owe their gradual recovery of popular favour in part to the turn of events on the Continent, and in ...

... PREMA TURE CONCL USIONS OF POL rCY. WITHIN the last few days a controversy has been raised upon the question, What are we to do with Afghanistan when we have conquered it ? The debate, except as showing that annexa- tion outright need in no case be thought of, appears to be some- what premature. We do not yet know with any degree of exactitude what our position in reference to the country is, ...

... V04 Obtuin2ld otb)4. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. THE AUSTRIANS IN NOVI-BAZAR. VIENNA, Sept. 5.-A telegram from Serajevo published here announces that the Austrian Commission which recently entered the sandjak of Novi- Bazar will return to Serajevo to-day. The inhabitants of Plevlje made no demonstration on their departure from that town. The Duke of Wurtemberg will arrive at Tchainitza on Sunday next, ...

... THE capture of CETEWAYO has set free Sir GARNET WOLSELEY for the more difficult task that awaits him in the Transvaal; and by the latest reports he was to have started for that territory at the beginning of the present month. The troops, with the exception of RUSSELL'S column, were to evacuate Zululand forthwith, the country being left in charge of two Residents for the northern and southern ...

... ritid Obtuinald otwd. AFFAIRS IN AFGHANISTAN. The Daisy Telegraph publishes the following despatch, dated Simla, Friday:- I find upon further inquiry that the statement I telegraphed yesterday-to the effect that the Ameer had sent a message to Ali Khel, and that the purport of this despatch was that Yakoob Khan was being forced by his mutinous troops to retire from alliance with the British ...

... There is no further official news in the morning papers regarding the outbreak at Cabul. The intelligence which has reached Ali Kheyl of the murder of the British envoy and his staff, and the escape of nine only of the escort, seems to have been brought to that place by persons from Cabul who had no mission from the Ameer. Nothing in fact has been heard of him since his letter to Lord Lytton ...

... This morning's papers contain somewhat fuller details of the outbreak at Cabul than were published on Saturday afternoon, but there is no later intelligence. It is assumed as beyond doubt that Sir Louis Cavagnari and his companions are killed, but no positive statement to that effect has been sent by the Ameer, who in his latest letter to the Viceroy, dated the 4th inst., says that he had no ...

... THE AGAMEMNON.') THE new ironclad which is to be launched on Wednesday at Chatham is a formidable addition to the Navy. While there is nothing remarkable in her construction, she is possibly, after the Injlexible, the most powerful vessel for coast defence which we possess. Last year gave us a rival to the AIgamemnon in the Independenda, the Brazilian monitor which is now known by the name ...