Reuter's Message Confirmed.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3009, 7 October 1878, Page 2

Reuters Message Confirmed.

Russian Intrigues at Cabool Discovered. Sinister Designs on India. A Portion of Tei-itoiy Promised in Case of Successful War, British GoVemnmt not to Interfere. ; . : Indian Government to Deal with, , Question. Colonists' Loyalty Praised, ,

London, September 26. '•■• Orders,have been given tomass troops at Quettalo rith the view of an immediate advance into Kandahar. . , ', ;, | The Cabul mission is dissolved.' '" j It is expected to detach Kyber Pass from the Ameer. i 1 Although the British .Government are I in possession of evidence showing thtl Russia promised the Ameer of Cabul a subsidy and a portion of Ind;an territory in the event of a succsssful war, they d-jsire to leave the Afghan question entirely in the hands of Lord Lytton, in orde.' to avoid dragging Russia into the dispute. The Turks have been defeated by the insurgents in Thessaly. The Austrians have occupied Swarank. There has been a gunpowder explosion at a southern railway tunnel.

Mr Gladstone has published a letter thanking the South Australians for a con. gratulatory address on his conduct on the Eastern Question.

Sir Michael-Hicks Beach, in a speech at Chipping Norton, warmly praised the patriotic behaviour of the coloni^ljiring the easte.-n crisis, testifying to th^r iltj and unity of the empire.