The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1880-10-30 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

CABIJL.  The startling news which was published in a second edition of the Daily Ames on Tuesday will take the whole country by surprise. Accerding to all the reports recently received Cebul has been in a state of quietude, and the new Ameer has been gradually strengthening his power and consolidating his rule. Now we are informed that an insurrection has broken out, that the new Ameer has been murdered anl filet anarchy and chaos reign supreme in the capital of Afghanistan. True, the news is not efficiently confirmed, and it may be but one of those canards circulated so industriously amone,et the bazaars. It may perchance be that it is only what is thought likely to happen,- hut there are several circumstances which unfortunately point to something serious as having occurred in the immediate neighbourheed of Cabul. In the first place the inhabitauts of the districts outside Cabul have recent!y :hewn signs of disturbance and impatience of the rule of the new Ameer. Then, again, fer several days there has been no post free' Cahill, though previously the British repreeentetive in that city has been a most reeilar correspondent. Couple with these circumstances the fact that Ayoub Khan has a large foltowine in Cabul and it will at once be manifest that the materials are to hand for just such a catastrophe as that reported, whether it really has happened or not. The source whence the Daily Xetes correspondent -obtained his information is the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore, no mean authority. Our readers will wait with anxiety and impatience for a confirmation or refutation of this report. It would be indeed unfortunate were the fabric, reared with so much labour amid industry under British supervision, destroyed at one fell blow in such a manner. Still we fail to see, even if the report be true, that it is the business of our troops to return to Cabul to restore order and place on the throne another Ameer to be butchered in auother revolution. Surely we have done enough and suffered enough to atone for our original sin in entering Afghanistan, and now the Cabullese ought to be allowed to settle their own differences without extraneous aid and without the necessity of our troops iecurring further risk. And apparently this sensible decision is the one at which the Government has arrived, although it will be probably opposed to the opinions of a majority of the Indian Council. The Marquis of Ilartington, however, is not the man to be led astray by the zeal for old traditions of the permanent officials in India. In reference to Candahar the Marquis has shown an independence of spirit and a determination to what he considers right and just whatever the Indian officials think, and in the same spirit we believe ' our future conduct with reference to Cabul will be controlled. A definite policy has been decided on in reference to Afghanistan, part of that policy was the evacuation of Cabul. When that took place such an occurrence as that whieh is reported must have been provided for as possible if not 'probable, and no doubt a course of action, in that emergency, decided on. We feel confident that whatever that course of action is, it is not a return to Cahill, from which we escaped with so great risk and suffering.