LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3648, 4 September 1880, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

(SPECIAL TO THE SYDNEY NEWS.)

AfghanistanLondon, August 24.

British troops now occupy the various strategic positions in the Khyber Pass between Peshawar and Jellabad, southern end of Cabul. General Gough in command of garrisons in the Pass, in a recent despatch contains information of a fight between a strong body of the enemy at Kuchamudan (a post in the Kyber Pass), and the British. The enemy were repulsed after a sharp engagement, with a loss of 100 killed and a large uumber wounded. The British loss was trifling.

A daring theft has been perpetrated at the Military Barracks at Banagber. Stores were broken open during the night and a large number of rifles stolen. .There is no clue as to the persons concerned in the robbery, but it is generally understood that the thieves are, Fenians, and the weapons stolen are intended for aggressive acts of disloyalty.

Military authorities in Afghanistan are in possession of information showing that Ayoub Khan has ordered a division of lm army, consisting of Heratees, to leave Candahar and intercept General lloberts' march on the city.

News was receired 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 8 officers killed, and total casualties 190.

It is estimated that the Afghans lost no less than a thousand.

News has been receired of the prisoners taken by Ayoub Khan. When he surprised and defeated General Burrows' brigade it was feared they were massacred by the Afghans, but Colonel Maclane has communicated the fact that he and other prisoners have been well treated by their captors.

General Roberts, by a series of forced marches, has made satisfactory progress towards reaching Candahar. He has now arrived within a short distance of Kelata Ghilazai, about 100 miles to the northeast of Candabar, and expects to reach Cabul on the 29th of the present mouth.

In the House of Commons when the vote for police purposes came on in Committee ot Supply obstruction was offered by the Irish members, who combined to prevent the vote from passing. The members averred that the police force iv Ireland had been employed to assist the unjust landlords in tramping upon the rights and liberties of the Irish tenantry. They strongly denounced the conduct of the police and the authorities in connection with the receut disturbances.

August 25.

Mahmoud 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 the position as one of the Sultan's advisers, has been again summoned by the Sultan to his Council. A cable from Constantinople states that serious rioting has taken place by the Bulgarians in the vicinity of Rustchnk on the Danube. The riots were quelled by the Roumanian soldiery, but not without terrible slaughter.