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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ACCORDING to telegrams of September 26th from Calcutta, published in the Times and Telegraph, the Government of India is not about to act so rapidly as the telegrams referred to below, and in our article on "the latest accounts," would indicate. A pause may have been ordered from England, or may be neces- sary to communicate with the Hill tribes, but it is understood that the movement through the Passes will still go forward before the winter. Indeed, we are not quite sure that the last telegrams are not intended for retransmission to India, to put the Ameer, if possible, off his guard. Lord Lytton has, however, already given him every possible warning, down to the numbers of Europeans to be employed.

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