... -z- \~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -7, i ?? MISSIONARY EFFORT.-The Archbishop of Canterbury, presid- ing last week at the annual meeting of the Church Missionary Society at Dover, said that it was a remarkable fact that, ...

... I TESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The hearing of the charges of conspiracy and fraud, made against the seven directors and general manager of the late West of Eneland bank, was restaned at Bristol yesterday morning. Miss Ann Gandy. of Clifton-road, Exeter, stated that she first bodgit shares in the bank in 1864, and from that time she had annually received the reports, and believing in them she had ...

... SPECIAL SUNDAY EDITION, CONTAINING ALL YESTERDAY'S NEWS. LLOYD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OFFICE, SUNDAY MORNING. TlHE REVOLT AT CABUL. OCCUPATION OF SHUTARGARDAN BY GENERAL lMIASSEY. We have received the following official despatch from the Viceroy of India, dated 13th September:- Shutargardau was occupied without opposition by General Massey on Thursday evening, (REOTER'S TELEGRANS,) SIMsA, Sept ...

... | MASSACRE OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY. EBEROIO DEFENCE & DESPERATE CHARGE. THE AMEER APPEALING FOR AID. MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY FROM THE QUEEN ADVANCE OF BRITISH TROOPS. The attack on the British Embassy at Cabal [which we reported on Saturday last) ended, as was feared, in the massacre of the Envoy, Sir Louis Cavagnari, and his companions. Only three were Englishmen-M1r. William Jenkyns, ?? Ben- gal ...

... TEE C:IpTLnR Or CETYAY0. . I ,I. A telegram announces that Cetywu\-yo is cap. tured, and that he was fo:.nd in the north-east Of Zululand. Assuuiing the report to be true, we hope that he will be as well treated as I'Yakoob Khan. There is no reason to be- ,ieve that Cetywayo ever hated us; there is only evidence that Cetywayo was hated by :Sir Bartle 1Frere. is we have got him, fe have at ...

... 'ACCZDENW TO THE EUPHRATES. intense excitement prevailed in Portsmonth onWed- nesday evening, in consequence of a rumour that the Euphrates had been capsized as she was being got out of dock. Happily the report was an exaggeration; for, although an accident occurred to the huge trooper, the officials acted with becoming promptitude, and all risk to the ship was averted. It will be, however, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... W4)(KHOUSE CEILDTEP TO TM 3LITOR 0 TIE D ? SMr,-Will you permit me to say s Iui your columns respecting a subecot to vhich rso5 tention is being given in several quarters, 'uais desirability of the formsation in every dietriet rf committees for visiting wo.'lhouse cbildren, Ce harmoony with, and wider the control of, bosidl dilansP I believe it is a faet that wherever 5 existed, with a mutual ...