National Republican., 1880-08-03
EVENTS In THE EAST.
Some Additional Details or General Bur-
rows Defeat.
The Responsibility Charged Upon tho Com
mandor-in- Cbiof-Now Com
mandcr Wanted.
General nurrows' Defeat.

General Burrows Defeat.
LONDON Aug. 3.--Tho Times has the follow.
ing from Cnndahar, August 2, by the Indo.
European Telegraph company. via TOhorankx
on tho morning of July "a "Gcncral Burrows
engaged Ayoob Khaus force of 10000 men and
twenty guns fifty miles beyond Candahar.
After four hours severe lighting General Bur.
rows WIS repulsed and forced to retreat to
Can dahar. The British loss was twenty Off.
GERS, 400 Europeans and 800 natives killed and
missing mott of the losse5 occurring in the re-
treat. Three horse artillery guns were aban.
doncd. Preparations are making for q siege
in Candahar."
The Tines says the foregoing news WAS
brought in by native messengers from Can
dahar aud tclcgraphed from Killa Abdulla,
post forty.fUur miles on the Candahar side of
Quetta.
Tho Times says: eve may assume that the
messengers loft Candnhar on Saturday. We
learn for the hrit time that General Burrows
was the assailant. As the Afghans do not
take prisoners we fear all the missing may be
rcckoned rs killed. The upshot of the story
is that ont of 2,I00 men not more than half
(sOm0 of whom aro wounded) followed Gen
eral Burrows into Candahar."
A Bombay dispatch to the Times under date
OF Monday says: News is expected from
General Primrose at Candahar by native rum
Bombay cannot spare any European troops for
| e.cniorcements."
A Scnpcgoat for Candnhar.
LONDON, Aug. 2.--Tho Calcutta correspond
ont of tho London Times toegraphs AS fol-
lows: at was well known by the time Con
oral Burrows force reached Girishk, on the
IIelmund river If not, indeed, before ii left
| Candahar, that the whole Of the contingent
under the Wall Shero Ali were thoroughly
untrustworthy, having been corrupted by the
regiments which had been stationed for ten
years at Cabul, aud IL is strange that, this fact
being known, so weak brigade was permitted
TO proceed seventy miles from its supports
against 5000 men with thirty'six guys. Tho
general impression here is that General Sir
| Frederick Haines, the commandor-in-chief of
the military forces in India, is greatly to
blame for this imprudonce. The mutineers
were supposed to have dispersed, but it Is
much more probable that they have Joined
Ayoob Khan. The only things that seem to
be wanted are head to direct vt Simla and
leaders to execute in southern Aighanistan.
| | am not Overs,ating the case in saying that
General Haines long ago forfeited the conf.
dence of the army Generals Primrose and
Phayre arc comparatively untried men. Gen
erals Stewart and Roberts could hardly be
| spared from Inc nDltu. All Heu eyes IN
India are turned to General Sir Garnet Wolso.
ley, and were the government to announce
the intention of sending him out Immediately
the nows would be hailed with delight BY sol.
diers and citizens from ono end of tho country
to the other"
Trouble with Abdurrahtnan Ameor.
LONDON, Aug. 3.--Tho Standards Bombay
dispatch says before tho telegraph wirn com.
muuicating with Cabul was cut message was
received thence stating that the durbar which
was TO have been held on Monday at Kellahaj
had been postponed and it was quito uncertain
whether IL would be held at all. 1t is sup
posed that hitch has arisen from tho evident
distrust of tie ameGr and his reluctance to
venture within the British Camn.
Ayoob Ishan's Opportunity.
LONDON, Aug. 2,-The Cabul correspondent
of the Times telcgraphs before the interruption
of Communication as follows: 'lfAyOob Khar
is not TOO much carried away by his success t.
perceive tho opportunity which Is probably
open TO him, he may be expected to MAKE
the host of his way to Ghuzneo. His ar
rival would probably inslil new life into the
opposition leaders there, and tho new amoeI
instead of being able to draw over the more
influential of them to his side may find him
self con lronted in the first days of his reign
by revived opposition, when Will render his
tenure Of power most piec1riOus."
LONDON, Aug 3.-The Times Vienna CORE.
spondent says "A dispatch from Pcra an.
nounces that the porto has determined, on the
advice of Osman Pasha, TO increase the troops
in Thessaly and Epirus to $4,000. or these
10000 will serve in Thossaly and $4,000 in
Epirus Twenty thousand OF the whole force
will be Albanian Volunteers
The Times Berlin correspondent reports that
everything concerning tho Greek question
| IN Inv IN a giaulsLil In all N,
alton is unchanged, and there is no danger ut
present that any disturbance will suddenly
! break ont. 1t is considered doubtful here
whether the porte will now he able to quiet
the Albanians after having stirred up their ma
tionsl religious passion to such degree.
The English Political system.
LONDON, Aug. 2.-The London correspond
ont of the Edinburgh Scotsman says he has
been informed that an Irish member intend,
to move resolution in the house of commons
ut the earliest opportunity declaring that the
direct and indirect share of the peeruSe in
legislation Is far in excess of its legitimate in
forest in tho government OF the empire, and
that the timo will como when 10 redress this
preponderance The sons, brothers and heirs
presumptiyo of members of the house of lords
will be declared incapable of sitting in the
house Of commons.
Tho irish Compensation Bill.
| LONDON, Aug. S,--ln tno nOuso OI lpIus To-
day Earle Granville, foreign secretary, moving
the second reading Of the Irish compensation
bill, said tho bill had arisen from the oxcep
tional circumstances existing in Ireland dur.
ing the last two years and from the large
increase of evctions, especially during the
present year.
Tho house of lords has adjourned until to-
morrow.
The French Elections.
PARIS, Aug 2-miduight. ht.-Rsturns received
up to this time show the election of S0i repub'
lcans aud 325 conservatives, Eighty.one soc.
ond ballots will bo necessary. Tho republican
gains arc 1S9.
An italian International Exposition.
LONDON, Aug. "A dispatch from Romo to
the Daiiy Neius says: "a committee including
some Of the leading members Of the Roman
aristocracy, has been formed TO promote the
holding of an international exhibition here in
1885 The advocates of tho scheme have re-
ceiyed encouraging letters from tho Duke
DoAOsta, ex.king of Spais, Premier Gladstone
and NJ Gamb0tta, president Of the French
chamber Of deputies.
Einigrants to Russia Driven Back,
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug, 2.-Newspapers here
publish sdvces from Noyorosoisk, on the Rus
sian shore of the Black sea, stating that a
| nu,nhar nf GrnpE and ArIneninn eniprantg IA.