Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-09-13 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

REVOLT.  nuntrEl4 OF MAJOR CAVAGNAsi.  Nair Cavagna,i has b,en murdered in 004 >lnda frroci•ms military and popular outbreak hes thus, in a s ngle day, transformed the face of affairs in Arg.uiPtan. But a very little while bad aped since the Euvoy cipaen to represent her Majesty the able and accomo ished Sir L Cavaguari—proceed-d, soul en. ry mark of honour, and even w«lcome, to take up his abode in the ALhati capital, where he kiss been no ruthlessly 011ie. Our ga•lant countryman wan indeed received ~n the 2tth ,4 July last with singular and signal marks gl respect The Afghan Mous,afi met him ~•ur miles outside the city; the entire body of ,•0 •pa wi,hin its precincts were taried out t, pay him homage; and the Ameer held a Ft pecial Durbar  r r•rir the Britran Euvoy on the very day of his arr. rrval. Two palaces in Cobol, neither capable of riefence, had been meanwhile redecre sr ed and furaistred for the lodging of Sir Louis. aud a guard of honour drawn from the best of the Ameer'a army was statir ned at their gates. Nothing untoward had since that date marred the good effect produced by this thoroughly friendly fulfilment of the first conditions of the Peace of Gundamak. It stood accepted throrighent Asia, and nowhere apparently %lin lesa reservation than in Afghanieran itsr•lf, that henceforward Afghan affairs would be c rntrolted in all external particu am by the powerfel ally of the accepted ruler Yak' oh, and everything in the behaviour of the people or the army, even in the opinion of adverse critic., supported this view. Suddenly a fit of the old incurable treachery and fierceness of the Afghan breaks out, like some access of demoniacal possession. 0. Saturday came the startling news of a popular outburst at Cabal, which, besides entailing the gravest. measures on tire Indian Grrvernment and sweeping away all further trust in the pacific dinpostern of the Afghans, has cost the lives of some of the bravest and best of her Majesty's servants in India. A Restore message was the first to comnlunicate that the British Residency in Cabul had been'attacked on the 3rd instant by "several Afghan regiments," who had assembled at the Bata Hisser to clamour for pay. The escort of the lievoy, it said, " was defending itself." The Vareroy upon the news had inetantry ordered the British troops in the Khyber and Kurrum Passes to move up, the former to Jeiblabad, the latter by 'lre Peiwar and Shetorgurdan to Cobol itself, Stewart being directed simultaneously to stand fast at Candahar. Later information represented the populace ae joining with the mutinous regiments itt plundering the Government stores and arsenal., and attacking the Resider-my. This last intellb a once was received from Yahoob Khan him. If, who, in brief despatches to the British commander at Ali Kheyl confirmed the story of the origiu of the outbreak, and added that he himself was solated and hriplees amid the confusion. Hs had Out Drrond Shah, a high official, to quell the tumult, but the mob had stoned and speared that prrrsonage. He had next despatched Mrllahs bean. irg the Koran, and headed by Yahya Khan and his h son, but with no better effect.  The Turco-Gieek Frontier Commissioners have held another meeting at Constantinople Jai& P97f)240,14 rerl fmrgreeir vrerg mak Ottoman delegates adhere to their former interpretation of the famous 13th protocol.  The strike in the cotton trade at Ashton and Mossley are assuming serious proportions Notices for a reduction of wages lave also been given by a large number of firms in Wigan and the districts.  ,0 .1 WEEKLY and UPWARDS may ba