The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-09-30 00:00:00

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Snow, Wednesday.—On the 22nd the first overt
act of hostility upon the part of the tribes near the
Shutargardan Pars took place. It was characterised
by the treachery natural to these people. As a small
escort of telegraph stores was proceeding from Karatige
to Shutargardaa, a number of natives joined the party
and accompanied it in a friendly manner, entering into
convenation with the escort and workmen. Suddenly
the signal was Oven, and they threw themselves upon
the unstuipecting soldiers and cut them down before any
resistance could be thought of. Eight Sepoys and some
20 workmen were killed. The natives then drove off
some of the mules and carried away the burthens of
others. A party of the 72nd were sent off in pursuit;
but the natives had taken to the mountains, and the
72nd failed to overtake them.
The brigade from Candahar will advance beyond
Khelat-i-Ghilzal towards Ghuzni. So far there is no
indication whatever of hostility from the tribes in that
direction.

Mustati and Waxier, the emiasaries of the Ameer,
have arrived at General Roberts's; camp. Their
mimion is to aasure him that the Ameer is loyal, and
that it wan his helpleasuesa, not hie will, which kept
him from interfering on behalf of the Ernbaaay when
attacked by the mutineers.
Aurnatian, September 28, 3.42 p.m.
The troops are advancing now with all speed. It is
expected that Cabul will be entered on the sth of next
month. Residenceis doubtful. as the rebels lack leaders
and organization. The tribee betw•en Alikbeyl and
Shut argardan are giving some trouble. General Roberts
awl his party were fired upon and Dr. Townshend was
severely wounded. The force sent to the assistance of
General Roberts lost five men.

THE AMEEII_AND_HIS_tION IN THE

BRITISH CAMP.

Saturday.—Authentic reports received here
from the front state that the Ameer a officials have been
instructed not to oppose the British advartoe.—A small
holy of Afolununds assembled at a short distance from
Lalpura, Nit have been disperved.
LATICIL—A portion of General Baker's Brigade will
advance to-day to %Argun Shahr, where it will be
joined t mw by General Roberts's force, the last
detachment I.f which is expected to leave Ali Kheyl
on its way to Calm! on September 29--The Indian
Government has ,ortlered the construct in f tramways
for the Khyber and Kurum lines of communication.
Telegram from the Viceroy, Simla, September 28th,
1879

"General Baker received a letter from the Afghan
Commander-in• Chief on the 27th at Kushi, asking
whether he would receive him and the Ameer's heir
apparent in the camp, and he replied in the affirma-
tive. An hour later message came from the Ameer
himself asking Baker to receeiv him and MD Sowars.
'taker replied that he would meet him mile from the
camp. The Arnim-, with his son Sidar Gaghs Kahn.
Dahoori Shah, and 45 suite, with an escort, reached
Kushi yesterday evening. Cabul Ia reporter' in
disturbance, and city gates closed. Roberts reached
Klishi to-day.
THE MARCH ON CABUL.
The Lord Lienteeant's second edition telegraph
from Simla telegram says :—" General Roberta is
instructed to issue a manifesto to the Afghan people
that the British army advances on Cabul to avenge
treachery, the peaceable inhabitants bein; unmolested,
but armed persons considered enemies.
Consols unaltered.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AFGHAN WAR.
To TIM CDITOIt OP TAM DAILY NEwL
Sir.—Tbe historian of the filet Afghan war—the late
leir John Kays, Political Secretary.. the India Oahe—in
reviewing the devices by which the Ministry of Lord Mel.
bourn* betrayed the country into that war, extremes him-
self thereon in the following terms :
I cannot suppress the utteranco of me abhorrence of
this system of garbling the official corneepondetce of
public men - • sending the letters of • statesman or
diplomatist into the world mutilated, amen-elated—the
very pith aarl substance of them can out by the unsparing
hand of the State anatomist. The dishonesty by which lie
upon Ile is palmed upon the world has not one redeeming
feature. It public men are, without reprehension, to he
permitted to lie in the face of nations wilfully,
elaborately, and maliciously to bear false witness easiest
their neighbours—what hope is there of private veracity?
In theca.e before us the steppe-earn mei is virtually the
runreie falai The character of Duet Mohamed was lied
away; the character of Borneo was lied away. Both, by
the mutilation of the corrupondenoe of the latter, have
been fearfully misrepresented. Both hare been wet forth
se doing what they did not, and °Wino( to do what they
did. I cars not whose knife, whose hand, did tha work of
mutilation, and indeed Ido not know. I deal with
priorspios, not with persons, and have no party ends to
serve. The 010/11 Of truth moat be epheld.—Kara • His-
tore, vol. I-, P. 1034
Nor. 81r, have I any_party ends to env., when I say that
the nation haa been' lied" into this mooed war against
the Afghans, se it was in the former one. The true history
of the present war is as follows —Lord Lytton was drawn
from the Sold of &trepan diplomacy to be entrusted with
a mission pregnant with isenea.the drat fruits of which we
are now reaping. He was sent to India to set up at Delhi
that ill-omened thing we call the Empire ;and the limit of
that Empire on the North-Weet was to be the Oxus. In
these few words, yOU have, Sir, the true secret of the
war. And to carry out Earl Beacconiedd's Idea it was
nocensry to reduce Sher. All from the position of an inde-
oendeeit Sovereign, guaranteed to him by treaty, and by
innumerable verbit pledges on the part of former
Viceroys, to that of • mare feudstory prince. And Share
Ali's offence against en was that he refused positively to
come into thaw views. The "Empire" of India wee to
be extended owe for all to the Outs, with Share Aire . NEWMARKET RACES.—THOLIDAY.
consent if gemelble, and without it if he proved fate-act. ' ROTIAND &turns —riallry, I; Creation, 2: Tole& Ara,
abl.. From the care with which the real nature of Lord 3. Won by throe length..
Lyttoo's mission we concealed from Parliament and from ReiiiwlLL STLILIL—GiI Man 1; Maid of Orleans, 2 ; the country it would be impossible for me, without .3. Won by half • length.'
rToccupying several columns of your specs to show your mama £lo3—Royal, 1; Brown Prince, 2. Won by
adere how the disclosure was roads The first rap wee half • length.
to invite the /thwer to the Delhi Assemblage, upon the Mootrate Sing= (Rioadicap.)—Hermia, 3 years flat
assurance that as the French, American, •W Portuguese Sib (Beadoa). 1 ; Idowerina, 3yesra, est filb (J. Macdonald),
Cloosale weld be preeent, he could dose without Is any g; Sutler, 3. Won by a rawk.
way Ids station as an independent Power. Ebsocero Namur Brains 44 oubs—Valeatino. 1 -
He sa.ii=jae device, ow clearly that he could not Triermens 2; Orchestra, 3. Serene, Sonatina. Moceasecno:
appear at the assemblage as an Independent saverelge— Tuataras, and the Star also ran. Won in • canter by a
and he declined the invitation with a good deal of inita- length.
tion. For British troops had already shown themselves TILLINNIAL PLODUCE STLILLS—Bend Or ,1 ; The Song,
at Qaettah, upon the proton°e of pacifying "[helot, to his 2; Foe Ki 3. thwkamari, Tory, Wild Flower, Miss
well-founded alarm. His refusal of the invitation to Sharpe, Glen ALa Franrems. Electric, and Lieut.-
Dew wee followed up by the positive requirement that Geseral also ran. on ice a common ranter by • Inorth,
he should send an envoy to Peshawar to confer with Sir Kgwnsagil OCTOIIIII HANDICAP, 52 Raba —Fortitude, Lewis Pally upon the settlement of • new treaty with I • Lord Clive, 2; Thunio, 1 Tbe Mandarin, Abbeys, the British Power. But he wanted no new treaty. The Oirbertuk Kingfisher, sag Dalnaspidal IL also ran.
temporary alarm with which he had regarded the Russian Tng Rica—When the Rag fell. Osrhoruili on the right,
expedition to Kblva two years before had passed away, was ffret away, attended on his whip baud by Dalnarpidal
The proofs that power gave of its moderation by simply /L, and on tlie Ahead aide by Fortitude. whin Thenio, roam an end to the slave market in that
.city. otter Lord Clive, and Mandarin wena lying off. After running
the captives and then withdrawing its forces— about a couple of furlongs Fortitude drew himself clear of
had convinced him that he had more to fear from our- Carberus, Delnaspidal 11., Lord Clive, and Mandarin. On
selves than from Russia. And we were not long in fur- reaching the Bashes, Thad° and Mandarin comnounded,
nishing bin, with Mai of 'kw fact; for the new treaty and as they came down the hill, Lord Ohre drew or to
whirls it was the object of Sir Learn Polly to force upon Fortitude, d looked like winning, but he tired in rains
him could not possibly be misinterpreted. the hill, and Fortitude being sie by his light weight
The reader most keep fully before his mind that Lord stayed the longest, and won by • length; three length.
Lyttoes miaiioll was, as I hive said, to make the Oxus divided the second and third; Carbons was fourth;
the limit of the Empire, and to do this it was waemory to Dolnaspidelhl., 111th; Kingfisher ilex t ; and Abbey. last obtain the Ameer's canna to our putting British it eal- Maw min. 21 no
denn„with =Rabbi sworn, on the line of that river, FRIDAY.
low tbe Pretext that in no other way could we effectu I allr Rota Manotost. 5y Or, Or, I; Canon Mil& anticipate and protect the Ammer from the aggresdoas of 12; Dora, 1 Nine ran.
Rued& It was foreseen that this pnieenCe of British ! 4. Leona Stiosa.—Bay Archer, 1; Rayon d'Or, 8;
alien on the Oros would rapidly familiarise Central I 1 Four ran
Asia, 'Afghanistan, India. and England with the wan. Ocroona Two-run-Out fivenne.—Rottert the
Ides that the Oxus, and not the Indus, wag use I • 011,4, n, ft ; tissue foal, 3. Three ran
boundary of the new Empire that had Just been —A.ntyous, 1; Browned% 2: Trier-
prodalined at Delhi. Now, this project was sedulously
concealed from Parliament It was intended to wow- 1 —West Wind, I; Cerberus, 2. Two
; plish Hair, under Lord Lytton's Wilful handling of the . ran.
Ameer as • diplomatist; and if diplomacy flailed he was A flgtumo 81,111,11Taltin—Saintishatirs, 1; Playaway,
thee to Sod an occasion for coercing him into acquiescence 2; Charlemagne I Nine rail,
with our views The world would never, I dare say, A Hitarecer SweirseennS—Hankliwees. 1; ',eremite
know the mart of "handling" which the envoy Teeny got 2; Dunnicow, 3. Tee ran
at these famous conferences Everyone in India is well
aware of Sir Lewis Pally'. Maw for the work entrusted
to him. and we know that Lord Lytton instructed him to HEREFORD RACHK—Tithoente.
tell the Anteer to remember that he was but "an earthen Wes Hamm' Pterg.--Stitch of Canvas I; Maryland,
pipkin between two iron pots," His lordship went so far 2; Malcolm, 3; mby Confederate, Red Robe, and Ranger,
Indeed (ride Parliamentary papszal, as to tell him that 0. Won by 1) liars; bed third-
Russia was very &DX iol4. to b.afn the work with the Sag- Towns PUTS. . furbongs—titar Qoean, 1; Lantern
Huh as their allies and that if he refused to surrender the Fly, 2; bona. 3; Q". 4 of the T.Y.a• and Strati:Kumla, treaties upon which he 'los& the " verbal" prewar and O. The favourite made the whole of the running. said
witagements of previous Viceroys, upon whlc.h he laid won by • length and a half.
curl strew, and in which he en much confided, were at an MCWOIII.IBIIIIII COP.-40a Lawyer, I ; Plaiaante. 8'
end. Incredible as it as, ill, absolutely true, without St. Margaret, 3; f by The Baron, O. Won by three
colouring of any kind. The Avner a envoy died at Pee- len7ths-
bartur, and the conference was broken up. The Ministry SILLON) WILTInt PIATIL—C by Athelatow, 1; Rs& told Parliament—as Lord Lytton had previously told the coin, 2; Braviseima, 3 ; Tar-se, (I.
Indian public, that the conference was broken up because fientueo Rosati PL•7I.---Sesiull, 1: Broc,oki ally. 8'
the Ameer had ref used to send a wood envoy. The state- Ginfartaretail. 3 ; Ninetune.:Baback, BLack-Kyed Sumo allee
moat was false. The Armor had another envoy on the O. WOO be ten lengths.
way to Peehawur. wimia Lord Lytton hicarlf wimp- ftitUnlii itiTanli 0110 soya each. nit\ 200 added. Five
wily broke up the conference by telegraph, UV having }anon/X. —TyPhOOO, 1; Colorado, 8' Bowness, I Woo ia
reported that the treaty would never be emptied by the • canter by three-quarters of a length.
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Ammer. se his fear of Ronda was awe/lowed up la his Down.' 'hoz 11472. —Landrall, 1 ; Aurelio, 8; 000,1
stronger fear of ourselves The sole offemen Of Ike Ape& Won by three lengths,

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