16 OCTOBER 1880, page 2

The News From The Cape Is Worse Than Ever. According

to the correspondent of the Standard, who telegraphs on Wednes- day, the Basutos have assumed the offensive, and have sur- rounded Colonel Bayly in Maseru, and Colonel......

The Unexplained Resolve Of The Government To Remain For The

winter at Candahar is already giving rise to anxiety. Accord- ing to recent telegrams, Ayoub Khan is not considered, in Afghan circles, at all a discredited man. On the......

The Catholic Church In Ireland Has Pronounced Against The...

League, and all terrorism exercised upon landlords. Its official representative, Dr. McCabe, Archbishop of Dublin, in a pastoral charge read on October 10th in all the churches......

The War In South America Between Chili And Bolivia, With

Peru for the ally of the latter, which has been raging so many months, has at last come to an end, Chili and Peru having accepted the mediation of the United States. It is......

The Prospects Of General Garfield, The Republican Can-...

the Presidency of the United States, have greatly improved during the week. The autumn elections have been held in five States, and 28 Republicans and 14 Democrats have been......

We Have Said Enough Elsewhere About The Election Commis-...

but must here make one apology. We last week overrated the honesty of rascals. We said that ander the Ballot men capable- . of taking bribes seemed, nevertheless, to be......

Gordon Pasha, Who Is Returning From China To England, Evid-

ently does not believe that Egypt is regenerated. In a letter written in the Red Sea, he declares that slave-hunts still go on in the Soudan, that rescued slaves are merely......

A Telegram Was Received In London On Tuesday Stating That

the King of Burmah had resolved to invade Pegu. His troops were collecting upon the frontier, and he bad demanded compensation from the British for allowing a Burmese Pre-......