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By An Observer.

i EUROPE AND ASIA,

| Evrorean polities are, just now, ia a d Siate. ii

| where to find

| very tangl is hard to know

a thread that ean be follew-

‘ed through to the end. ‘The demand made

I by the Powers Upon the Porte ; the disas-

iter to the British arins in Afehanistan

| the frish dilhicuity in the House of Com imons; Mr. Gladstone's illness, —have, per- ihaps, been the most prominent ; and, wide-

they

hivezé counested with each other by

ily ditterent as appear, they are all their effects. Besides thi: 1t, we have France re- calluug the Communists and expelling the Jesuits ; Belgium celebrating the jubilee of her independence and breaking off diplo-

I. f | ratio i a

relations with the Vatican and Germany modifying the Falk Laws. On avy ordinarily goed atlas, the new

manded for Greece, by the

On the maiuland,

boundary de: Powers, can be traced. opposite the southern pt rtion of the Island of Corfu, Kalamas.

will be seen the river

The boundary fellows the course ef this stream nearly to the 49th degree of Iati- tude, then striking eastward, taking in the

ytortresses of Janina and Metzovo., and

binge De eus ao } . : rayt. 5 Salainbrias, the aneient Peneins. hi

territory, being the southern portions of Albania and locatities of the Vale oF Tempe,

Pelion, Ossa,

includes the classic Mounts

Thessaly,

and Olvmpug@, Its area is

7,000 square miles, and poffulation nearly Crreece will increase its third. io the

expense,

half a mitlion. Soe

one

‘

present area’and population by s * Certainly the Powers are generous

little Kingdem at her neighbor's

Besides this demand for Gréece, the Powers

considered the Montenegrin question. It

will be remembered that the Berlin Con

feretice gave’ Montenegro a slice of North- that the

ern “Albania. The diffienlty is

Albanians don’t want’ te belong to Mon- tenegre. Tarkey says she. is sorry they wont submit; but she can’t force them. The Ambassadors have here proposed ® compromise. The

Albanians are specially angry at east that piece on between the Lake and the Adri- Port of

month of July,

the transfer of the of Lake Seutari, and it

territory 18 proposed

this be changed for an equivalent

the west,

atic, near the Duleinoe. In the

these various proposals

were laid hefere the Porte in a Cx lee tive

Note—a diplomatic

document which, of

course, does not threaten—merely ‘‘ invit-

ing,’ the Turk to deas his friends wish :

but which it is expected will be followed by

a display of force if its ‘‘ invitation’ is de- clined. It was understood that the Pewers

Were prepared to make a naval demonstra-

tiou if the time. it seemed

ir views were net met. At ong not improvable that such taken. But that have since oecurred, have done but a little bonds that held the Powers together. For, of that the

what was desired, but has

action would be events,

to lessen the feeble course, if need

not be said, Porte has not done pretested and made counter proposals, and half premises, and partial preparations for war. The ob-

ject of all this is te gain time, with the

something would ditheult or

Powers to act together.

hope that turn up to

make impossible fer the

And unlikely that such will really be the case. France is already beginning to make ex- cuses,and Germany is not anxious to take

fresh difficulties in say the least,

England to embroil

any active pari. The Afghanistan will, to

the disineclination of herself in fresh European wars; and the illness of Mr. lessen the zea] of the English Cabinet, by temporarily removing from it, at a critical

increase

Gladstone willa great deal

period, the strongest and most vehement advocate of Greek claims. True, the

| Powers have added an Identie Note and ,allowed only three weeks for an answer--a | period which has just expired. Bnt it is ‘understood that they only insist upon the | “s Montenegrin part of the programme ; and, The

| main question now is, will Greece venture

‘to that the Porte professes to assent.

| herself, alone, to occupy the assigned terri- |tory, and so provoke Turkey to single com- ibat. If she hardly be but that a general European war is net far dis- tant.

| Abdul Rahman, a*grandson of their for- mer enemy, Dost Mohammed, was made | Ameer by the British raler of Afghanistan, |apparently with the consent of the tribes. Catdahar was separated from the rest of Afghanistan and placed under Shere Ali (as

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and depen- it was yenerally thought that these arrangements although known that a Herati chieftain, Ayoob Khan, was from fferat to Candahar, on this account, On

tl 18 governor), a neminee

dent of the Indian Gevernment.

final; and, it was

| marehing south lio anxiety was fell ithe 14th of July, ‘har, and General Burrows, with a contin- veut force of Shere Ali's soldiers, advanced

Ayeob was hear Canda-

Shere Ali's troops mutinied, and attempted to join Ayoob; but before they did so, Burrows routed them and took their epee. By*this defection General Burrows’ force was reduced te 2,200 men, /of whom 800 were British troops. Ayoob had 12,000 men, with 26 guns, and astrong cavalry force. Since, on the plains of Plassey, Clive, with his little band. of 5,000, routed Surajah Dowlali’s host of 55,000 men British generals have rarely shrank from a conflict with an Kasiern army, however great the disparity the result has justified their confidence. But there are not wanting records of defeats, as warn-

against him,

with him

and 50 guns,

of numbers: and, in most cases,

ings agains! too’. great rashness; and the defeat of the 27th July must be added to {the tist. The Knglish General made the

} ‘ , 3 jattack; and, for that purpose, left a very

advantageous position which he had ocen- pied. At first the battle was an artillery duel. Then the British force brought their

breech-loaders into play, and the battle was turning in their favor, tntil a splendid charge of Ayoob’s Ghazis (a cavalry force) completely broke the native infantry, end threw them back in eonfusion upon the men ef the 66th. At first the Europeans retreat was slow and orderly, but when the 600 foo;

found themselves ent off fram the artillery

and cavalry, and sntronnded by many thon- S21 { the eneniy, they broke, and fled in confusion to Candahar. Four hundred men of the 66th were killed and wounded, and six hundred others. ‘Twenty-one officers were killed or missing ; and of the twenty who returned, eight were wounded. ~That Ayoob’s force suffered badly, would appear from the fact that he inade no attempt to pursue. General Primrose then had time io prepare for the defence of Candahar, where he is now besieged, defending the with 5,500 infantry, 1,000 cavalry and 15 guns. General Phayre from the Seuth with 5,000 men, and General Roberts

place,

from the North with 10.000 advanced to the relief. The besieged garrison bas held its own, and made some successful sorties.

About the first of September, it was expect- ed that Roberts would reach Candahar. Mis arrival may be heard of definitely before this is in the readers hands. The relieving forces are superiorior to any,they must meet are by no means free from danger, have been disquieting rumors flying

but they There about that Ayooh had laid waste munch of the and forage is an absolute necessity for anarmy. Some inilitary erities severely condemn the Gov-

country, on the lne of march ;

for ordering the complete aban- ef Cabul, putting the relievers, from the dangarons condition of an arniy It is to be hoped these incorrect. Bat a

erninent, doniment without a base. forebedings, may preye few days will decide. Since the above was written, more -re- General Koberts, with sufficient forage and supplies, was within a day’s march of Candahar, hav- | ng increased his foree by taking with him a post march, General Phayre’s movements have been slowér, and his supplies more scarce, but as his distanée was shorter. he to act with Ayoob was falling back, whether to retreat, or so as to cecupy a good position,

assuring news has been received.

the garrison of Khelati Ghilzai,

which Jay on his line of

was ready

toberts. could not be known. If he stood his ground a decisive battle was fought probably to- aay.

To return to Europe, it will be enough to mention that Belginm, having gained; in 1830, a divorce from the very incongenial partner which the arrangements of 1815 had forced upon her, has been and is. still

celebrating with great eclat the 50th anni-

Her has been one of progress, on the whole, in spite of many | diffienlties; and, though just now she has | an awkward affair in hand, the country has shown such good capacities for government | that she will doubtless come well through this trouble,

France, too, has had a national jefe, and no people in the world manages these pub- lic celebrations so well as the French. So it goes without saying that, on the 14th of July, the “‘Storming of the Bastille” was

versary of her national independence. history, during these years,

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