LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2038, 4 September 1880, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Br Telegraph.] The greater part of the late cable news, per s.B. Hero, was given in our issue of yesterday. The following are additional iteme : August 24. News has been received that Generals Primrose and Burrows made a vigorous sortie from Candahar. A severe engagement ensued, in which the Anglo-Indian troops behaved splendidly in the face of very superior numbers, and inflicted a severe defeat upon the Afghans. The British losses were eight officers hilled. The total casualties were 190. It is estimated that the Afghan loss was not less than 1000.

News has been received of the prisoners taken by Ayoub Shan when he surprised and defeated General Burrows’ Brigade. It was feared that they were massacred by the Afghans, but Colonel Maclive has communicated the fact that he and others have been well treated by their captors. In the House of Commons, in Committee of Supply, obstruction was offered by the Irish members, who combined to prevent the vote from passing. The obstructing members averred that the police force in Ireland had been employed to assist unjust landlords in trampling upon the righto and liberties of the Irish tenantry. They strongly denounced the conduct of the police and the authorities in connection with the recent disturbances. August 23. Mahommed Pasha, one of the reactionary party in Turkey, who had persistently opposed all outside interference with Turkish affairs, and was some months ago dismissed from his position as one of the Saltan’s advisers, has been again summoned by the Sultan to hie council.

The wool market is weaker, and prices show a tendency to decline. General Phayre’s advance is delayed by want of transports. Ayoub Khan's force is now so increased that be has been able to detach the Oabuleae to watch the troops under General Roberts.

August 26.

The physicians attending Sir Charles Dilke report that ho is suffering from abscess, and that his gout has not improved. A cable message from Constantinople states that serious rioting has taken place by Bulgarians in the vicinity of Bustchuk on the Danube. The riots were quelled by the Roumanian soldiery, but not without terrible slaughter.