LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2027, 23 August 1880, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegeaph.]

[Per 5.6. Tararua, at the Bluff ] LONDON, August 13,

It is announced that the British force stationed at Khelat Ghilzai, an advanced station about eighty miles from Candahar, was safe on the Bth inst.

August 11. Notwithstanding the near approach of the time whan Parliament is usually prorogued, Government refuse to reduce their programme. The Conservatives below the gangway, with a section of the Irish party, joined in opposing the Government, and a wrangle took place which lasted all the afternoon. Those Conservatives who had held office voted with the Government.

Mr Fawcett, Postmaster-General, in reply to questions in the House of Commons directed against the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s contract, stated that six months’ postal matter conveyed by the Orient steamers to Australia had yielded £IBOO, while the company had received less than £4OO. The express train from King’s Cross, London, to Scotland, while travelling at full speed fell down a high embankment at Berwiok-on-Tweed. The driver of the engine and two servants were killed.

JAugust 12. The revolt of the Albanians against the rule of the Sultan of Turkey is now so complete that the central cities refuse to join the movement against Greece.

August 13. Baroness Burdett Ooutts has notified to the Queen her intention of marrying Mr Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, the Conservative member for Eye, who is aged twenty-two. Her Majesty, and also the brother of Mr Bartlett, without objecting to the Baroness Burdett Ooutts’ intention, have disapproved of the proposed marriage, and immense pressure is being brought in the highest circles to dissuade Her Ladyship from the marriage, by which she would lose half her present income.

Lord Plunkett, who is also Bishop of Meath, having voted against the Compensation for Disturbances (Ireland) Bill in the House of Lords before taking his oath of allegiance, an indemity Bill has been introduced, which the Irish members in the House of Commons are obstructing with the object mulcting Lord Plunkett in penalties for so voting. Sir Charles Dilke, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replying to a question in the House of Commons put by Alderman McArthur, M.P. for Lambeth, said that tho Government were still discussing the question of joint consular authority at Samoa, but that it was not advisable at present to announce their decision.

Six men have been arrested for ths outrage in Cork harbor, in which several supposed Fenians in boats seized a vessel and carried off several cases of rifles.

August 14. Tho India office discredits any collnsion between Ayoub Khan and Abdur Rahman. One of Abdur Bahman’s chiefs, while travelling with secret despatches to General Kaufman to Central Asia early in July last was killed and his despatches stolen. The rumour that the Afghans had taken Ohaman is untrue.

There are now thirty-fire days’supplies at Oandahar. Ayoub Khan’s forces now number 20,000. The Herat portion desire to return borne with the share of the plunder. The Oabul troops have declared in favor of Abdur Rahman, the now Ameer. General Robert Phayre, has been for the last ten days massing troops at the Khojak Pass, and has now a force of 5000 men under his command. There has been heavy fighting with some tribes to the north-west of Sibi, in which ninety-six of the Anglo-Indian force wore killed. Much baggage was lost, together with a treasure chest containing £15,000. August 16.

The magnificent cathedral at Cologne, commenced in 1243, has at length been completed. The “Standard” confirms the reports which have been published as to the presence of European officers with Ayoub Khan’s army, but says that whether they are Russians or Europeans in the Persian service is uncertain.

General Skobelloff, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army operating in Central Asia against the Tekke Turcomans, has bombarded Geoklepe. The Emperor of Germany has left Ischl, and General Count Von Moltke has suddenly gone to Ischl, via Vienna, to meet the representatives of Austria, Roumania, and Servia. There are sensational rumours of new alliances arising out of these conferences. Russia has lately made fresh overtures to France, which have been declined. It is stated that Count Von Moltke openly talks of a coming war. Intelligence has been received from Candahar, which states that the cause of Ayoub Khan’s inactivity since his victory over General Burrows’s brigade is attributable to the fact that he was severely wounded during the encounter, and that since then considerable dissensions exist among his army. This report requires confirmation. August 14.

Lieutenant-General Sir tefroy has been appointed Acting Governor of Tasmania, ponding the arrival of Sir Geo. Strahan. The rial in connection with the Wimbledon scandal has commenced. The statements already made indicate that collusion has existed for several years between markers and those engaged to shoot.