REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1087, 25 March 1880, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH ANtf FOREIGN^ London, Maiojw. Iri the House of Lords Viscount Cranbrdok; Secretary di State for India; made a statement regardißc; the •

p.xetent position of affairs in Afghanistan. His Lordship said that General Stewart; with the force under his command i was returning to India via Ghuznee; where a large botfy of the 1 enemy was collected; At present ib was uncertain though whether an attack would be made by General Stewart in view of the recent oiler of submission by the chiefs.

Constantinople, Match 22; Colonel Synge and wife, who'.were captured last mouth by the Greek brigands; have ndw been released. News has b'ee'n fece'ive'd front Mecca to the effect that a re'ligiftus fanatic has stabbed to death the Grand Sheriff of the c'itjr.

The' follow irig cablegram's have' tip peared in the Sydney papers :

London, March 8. Earl Beaconsfield has advised the Queen to dissolve Parliament after Easter. The fact that this advice has' been tendered has been formally announced in both Houses of Parliament. The Liberals express themselves satisfied; In the Hoiise' of Commons tiie announcement was Warmly cheered by the Liberals. The dissolution takes place on March 23. Earl Beaconsfield 1 has addressed ah' important communication to the LoM Lieutenant of Ireland, which has been' published, and is regarded as a Manifesto of Government; in this the 5 Premier treats chiefly of 1 ' the relations between England and Ireland; and the' policy and tactics of the Home Rule' party. He claims that the action of Government has had the effec't of defeating the aims of the Irish agitato** both in and out of Parliament. He lays stress on the promptitude with which Government took steps to affofdi relief to the sufferers by the famine in Ireland, and insists that the interests of England and Ireland are inseparably connected with each other, and that any disunion must be calamitous to both. He also expressed a hope that the leaders of both of the great parties will repudiate the vicious and absurd claims put forth by Home Rulers, against whom he would warn the people of Great Britain and Ireland, as being actuated by a desire to destroy the essential bond of unity that should exist in a great nation like ours, The Premier al3o Challenges the opinion of the country on the policy and administration of his Government. He holds that the presence and perhaps the ascendancy of England in the great Councils of Europe is essential to the preservation of peace, and this ascendancy he points out, can only be acquired by unity amongst her own people.