REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1526, 18 August 1881, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN, London, August 16. The debate on the Irish Land Bill, as receive! a second time from the House of Lords, which was opened last evening, in the House of Commons, was, on the motion of Mr Gladstone, that the report on the Lords' amendments be further considered, continued to an early hour this morning. In the coarse of the sitting, several of the clauses, as amended, were rejected, and were restored to their original form; while in the case of others the changes made in the Upper Hou.se were modified, and in a few instances the alterations were assented to. The Irish members again violently objected to the action of the Government in agreeing to any of the amendments of the House of Lords, and accused Ministers of being parties to a secret compromise with the Opposition to the Bill. Consideration of amendments was, however, finally concladed, and the Bill, as re-amended, was again sent to the Mouse of Lords. Washington, August 16.

A bulletin issued this morning reports that the President is again in a very critical state. The relapse which has set in is stated to be of a nature to cause grave alarm. Calcutta, August 16, The telegrams received to-day from Candahar report that Ayoub Khan is experiencing some difficulty in the work of concentrating his forces, arid his advance is in consequence further delayed. Three of the regiments have refused to march on Cabul, and Ayoub has been compelled to disband them.