NEWS OF THE WEEK.
NEMESIS is not leaden-footed when Lord Beaconsfield is in front of her. On Saturday initiated that was startled by a tele- gram which announced to the nitiated that the conquest of Afghanistan mast be recommenced. The catastrophe derided by the Ministers had occurred in Cabul. On the 3rd of September, nine regiments of the Anieer's troops revolted, and after demanding three months' pay, which was given them, required the Ameer to dismiss the British Mission, Yakoob Khan pleaded with tears inability to comply, and the troops immediately attacked the Embassy, two houses within the Bala Hissar or citadel connected by a walled courtyard. The escort, eighty men of the Guides, Afreedees most of them, and the bravest of the brave, defended the court gallantly, and shot, it is said by a native officer who happened to be on leave in Cabul, 210 Afghans. The buildings, however, were of wood, they were fired, and the Envoy and his guard attempted to cut their way to the Palace, which is of stone, where they hoped the Ameer might pro- tect them. They were, however, fired upon from the windows, and overwhelmed by a multitude of swordsmen, They were all killed,—Sir Louis Cavagnari, the Envoy, a first-rate, though ambitious and 'pushing political; Mr. Jenkyns, Secretary to the Mission, a civilian from whom much was hoped ; Lieutenant Hamilton, a V.C., in command of the Guides ; Dr. Kelly, sur- geon to the Guides, and eighty men of the escort. The bodies ssf the Europeans were laid out for the inspection of the city, after the fashion of 1841.
