The latest intelligence, from India announces that the Ameer of
Afghanistan and his son Yakoob have come to a compromise. The history of their quarrel is confused, but it would appear that Yakoob, who is a man of unusual courage, after resisting his father's orders, ventured to Cabool without a British safe- conduct. His father there placed him under arrest, appar- ently to compel him to acknowledge his youngest brother, Abdoolla, still quite a lad, heir to the throne of Afghanistan. Yakoob did not yield, and such fears were entertained for his safety that Lord Salisbury formally announced that the Viceroy had given Yakoob no invitation, but an arrangement appears to have been made. Yakoob returns to Herat with two advisers—i.e., spies—and the brothers are to be equally honoured and have equal salutes. That means that the quarrel as to the succession is postponed to be settled by fate, or if fate is in- different, by a short and sharp civil war on Shere Al's death. For the present, however, a most inconvenient disturbance is averted.
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