Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-01-04 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

RDA Y, JANUARY 4, 1879.  INDEX OF THE WEEK.  A report that Yakoob Khan had gone to Jellalabad, unfounded on facts, was commonly reported with various additions early in the week. The Times correspondent at Lahore says that too much importance may be attached to the flight of Shen Ah from Cabul, and that i• is not improbable that the Ameer may have feared that if be remained there during the winter be would be caught in a trap. He released Yakoob Khan only under pressure from Eli‘• tililjer chiefs. and the coliespondent says ..kvtd.o bccuu.ss our. ally wo  dud! probably guarantee him against his father. -koeording to the same authority the invading troops are within a few marches of Candahar, and news of its occupation without resistance is shortly expected The special correspondent of the Rtandard telegraphs an ac,eount of diirbs.r with the Turen chiefs. wh:ch was held by General Roberts on Thursday All the princinil inhabitants of the Kboorum V Alley were in attendßTlCe. Those who had rendered assistance to the British tre'ins were' nreqente with gifts while those who had lying hick ware admonished as to their fritiire behaviour In the conrse of the proceedings General Roberts ma-le an important speech pOint;ng out that the • inee,”'s rule in that ply+ of the country ha 1 for ever narkae4 evray. He wired the chiefs that they nimit I,ok to rngl.in 1 as their soveriegn nor. and told them that nrpier the Fmoress Victoria they might rely linen protection from all their enemies without the oppression to which they had been accustomed. He concluded by presenting to them Captain Renwick as their political officer.  It is reportod that the hilllmen in the Khyber Pass are again giving trouble. A Daily News telegram from Pcshavtur states that on Tuesday morning a band of hillmen occupied the Shagai ridge, killed two wayfarers, cut the telegraph wires, and temporarily arrested communication with All Musjid, which WAS restored by a column from Jamrood. The Standard correspondent with General Roberta' column telegraphs an account of the execution of four Afghans who had been convicted of murderous attacks Large numbers of the natives assembled to witness the hanging, which took place on telegraph poles A. Turee, who had been condemned to be fingged, shouted to the men on the scaffold that their deaths would be avenged. In Constantinople it is again renresenteri as likely that a final treaty between the Porte and Russia will speedily he signed; Russia is Willing tn accent fleferred payment of' the *ndemnity.  Mr. Gladstone on " made un " s;xtv-nine. 1 silver axe, subscribed for bv the renders of the F:rhn, was sent to him AR a birthday 'Aft The liquidators of the Glase.ow City Bank state that the amount RO far realised by the call 1 the shareholders is very satisractory.—Mr. Leresohe; the secretary of +he hank, who has hoen hi custody along with the directors, will, it is •inderstood, he accepted as a witness for the Crown. Wechiesday a conference of employers Ind operatives in the cotton trade was held at Oldh with the view of bringing the strike to 11 close. The men were informed that the reduction must he enforced, and to this thy ultimately ae-reed. Tt is expected that the whole of the mills will be at work on Monday next.  Lloyd's agent at Hong Kong reports that on the 28th October an explosion of gunpowder took place on board the steamer 'Tokushima, and that ninetyfive persons were killed. It is said that 1 'r. M'Cabe will be the smccessor of the late Cardinal Cullen as Archbishop of Dul)lin. Three Liverpool polire-Oicers have been apprehended on a char, of being concerned in some extensive do .k robberies it is also expected that other officers will he found implicated. The distress throughout Lancashire is very great: in many of the large towns societies and committees tor distribu' ing relief have been formed: is winter is apparently still ne.ir its commencement it is probable th committees will have a long term of existence.  The diplomatists consider it nocessary to assure the world tha peace amonz Euronean nations will he maintained. Their motive, it is to ho hoped, is not merely a desire to talk and to console themselves.  More than 10,000 hales of cotton lave ben destroyed by fire at Charlestown in the wa ehou,e of a pressing e,omproiy.