TELEGRAPHIC.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1448, 7 October 1878, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

CAB L E NEW S.

SPECIAL TO TUB OLOSE. Reinforcements for India. Active STeasures in Progress. Sickness in Cyprus. London, Sept. 25. England will send reinforcements to India in consequence of Russian manoeuvres. The sickness at Cyprus is alarming. Four hundred are in the hospital. By an explosion in the Gothard tunnel 140 persons were killed or injured. September 27. The troops are rapidly massing ; 8000 are at Mooltan and 6000 at Kohat. The Government are taking energetic steps, and the garrison of Qucttah is reinforced. [eeutee’s telegrams to the press AGENCY.] Calcutta, Sept. 26. The Government has resolved upon massing troops on the frontier, with a view to early operations, in case it is found necessary to undertake a march to Cabul. The mission to the Ameer has been abandoned. The Premier’s Illness. London, Sept. 27. A Cabinet Council is summoned for next week to deliberate on the course of action consequent on Earl Beaconsfield’s unsatisfactory state of health. London, September 28. Mr Cowayne, the Conservative candidate, was elected for Truro. London, September 29. Captain Mares has sailed in the Arctic on the South Pacific expedition. Berlin, September 27. The Emperor resumes the reins of Government in October. Withdrawal of the Fleet. Constantinople, September 29. The Russians have evacuated Tshalldga. The British ironclads in the Sea of Marmora withdraw to Askti until the Russians have loft Adrianoplo. Bosnia Pacified. Yibnna, September 29. Bosnia is virtually pacified. The insurgents have been dispersed. Eruption of Vesuvius. Naples, September 29. Vesuvius is in full eruption . [special to the press agency.] The Afghan Difficulty. The Insurrection in Thessaly. London, September 26. Orders have been given to mass troops At Quettah, with a view to an immediate advance into Candahar. It is expected to detach Kyber Pass from the Ameer. Although the British Government are in possession of evidence showing that Russia promised the Ameer a subsidy and a portion of Indian territory in the event of a successful war, they desire to leave the Afghan question entirely in the bands of Lord Lytton, and avoid dragging Russia into the dispute. The Turks have been defeated by insurgents in Thessaly., The Austrians occupied Swarak, Mr Gladstone published a letter thanking South Australia for the congratulatory address on his conduct on the Eastern Question. Sir M. Hicks Beach, in a speech at Chipping Norton, warmly praised the patriotic behaviour of the colonies during the Eastern crisis, testifying to the loyalty and the unity of the Empire.