CABLEGRAM.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3042, 26 March 1881, Page 3

CABLEGRAM.

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LONDON.

March 24. It is announce! that orders have been telegraphed from the Horse Guards to General Sir Frederick Roberts at the Cape instructing him to return to England without proceeding to tbe Transvaal, in acjordtnee with instructions issued to him on his departure from England. At the wool sale to-day 9000 bales were catalogued. Twenty-one thousand bales have been withdrawn from the sale since the opening. A motion similar to that passed by the

House of Lords in favor of the retention of tbe British troops at Candahar is now being debated in the House of Commons. In the House of Commons to-day a question was put to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with the object of ascertaining whether he was in possession of information as to the intentious of the Russian Government in regard to Central Asia. In reply, Sir Charles Dilke stated that the Government had learned that one of the first acts of the Czar Alexander 111. had been to definitely recall General Skobeloff, and order the permanent cessation of hostilities against the Turcomans.