The New York herald., 1879-10-23
AFGHANISTAN.
ENGLANDs NEW CONQUEST TO be SETTLED AS
sEMI-INDEpENDENT sTATE-THE NIzAM's
DoMINIONs TAKEN AS A MoDEL-RUssIA RE-
sENTs LORD sALIsBURy's SPEECH.
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LONDON, Oct %, 1870.
Cabinet Council met this afternoon in
Downing street, and the question of the set
tlement of Afghanistan was discussed. l am
informed ON excellent authority that plan
devised by the Governor General of India
in council was submitted to it and met
with general approval. The plan was, in the
first place, that Afghanistan should not be an
nexed. Since the mutiny the policy Of annex
alton in India has seldom recommended itself
to the conservatives. The old idea has died
out that the secret of British success in
India is dependent upon the extinction
of sovereign rights among the native
princes. Lord Lytton's project is that
Afghanistan shall in future be placed on the
footing that theNizam Of Hyderabad's domin-
ions now occupy. The Nizam is bound by
treaties with England, in virtue of which he
nominates his own yizier, and the British resi-
dent at Hyderabad is the effective minister.
The government stipulatcs to recognize his
hereditary rank and privileges SO long as
he remains faithful to the terms of
the treaties; it guarantees that the
rights of his family shall not be invaded. 1t
gives him entire control of the Nizamat, and
pays him stipend, to be fixed by mutual agree
mcnt for the support of q subsidiary army Of
cavalry, infantry and other troops, to be
offcered from the several British presidencies.
THE FUTURE OF AFGHANIsrAN.
These privileges and these guarantees are to
be conferred on some member Of the present
Ameer's family. 1t is believed that Yakoob
Khan's abdication will be gladly accepted by
the authorities at Simla. His successor has
not yet been designated. But this much
is certain, that an English resident will
be placed ut Cabul, and that through him, the
British government will henceforth exercise u
direct influence over the fortunes Of the State.
A strong contingent of native and English
troops will be maintained in the country, conf
lnanded rs Mt Hydcrabad. English officers will
be exclusively chosen. Two points still remain
doubtful-one is whether the troops will be
massed at Cabul or scattered through various
fortified posts; but it is believed that
the occupation of Jelalabad and Ghaznee sug-
gess the latter course as the likelier. The other
doubtful matter is whether the British govern
ment will pay the troops directly from it's own
Golfers or will allow the Afghan ruler o fixed
stipend for their maintenance.
INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
The revenue of Afghanistan will be collected
by native officials, as in the non-regulation
provinces of Hindostan, but they will be under
the eye of British superintendents The latter
will not be recruited, in all probability, from
the ranks of the Indian civil service, but, ac-
cording to the system prevalent in the
Northwest, will be military men en-
ployed in civil capacities. The civil
service will doubtless supply the judicial force
of the country, as in the rest Of Hndostan.
But even here more freedom will be left to the
Afghans, and more native judges appointed.
The army will be maintained as in Hyderabad.
1t will be distinctly stated that the system is
tyrants,, and it is believed that the lead
ing officials at Cabul have already expressed
themselves well disposed to some such method
of government. The Governor Generals project,
which is said, from internal evidence, to be the
work of some of the honest and most experienced
members of the Council-and, probably, of Sir
John Strachey, late Lieutenant Governor of tho
Northwest Provinces-rcceived the earnest
attention of the Cabinet. My informant adds
that it was very favorably received.
THE SALISBURY SPEECH.
But the Anglo Russian imbrogio is as far as
ever from solution. Lord Salisbury's speech
is said to have raised the strongest resentment
ut st. Petersburg, and Count Schouvalotf has
definite instructions to remain here until
Lord Beaconsticld has spoken at the
coming Lord Mayors banquet, on No
vember o. He will then probably
leave unless the Premier's speech is
pitched in quite another key from that of Lord
Salisbury. The advices from Constautinoplc
hat Prince Lobanotf would succeed Schouvaloff
have been confirmed by dispatches from
the Russian capital. Matters are here believed
to have assumed the most serious aspect
Prince Gortschakoff will probably soon go to
Livada, and the results of his consultation with
the Car form already theme of livclicst dis
cussion, not unnixcd with anxiety. 1t is certain
that the bitterness is increasing from day to