INDIAN POLICY.
From India we hear that communications hare been opened with Yakoob Khan, at Cabal. Lord Beaconsfield has stated in the House of Lords that " possibly, or even probably," negotiators are going on in Afghanistan from which a satisfactory settlement may resnlt. Bnt as yet little v known of the real disposition of Yakoob Khan. It appears that after the Ameer's death three pretenders to the throne suddenly started np in Tashkurgan, and that for five days the province was reduced to anarchy. The party of Yakoob triumphed only after a bloody struggle. The predatory tribes in the neighborhood of Candahar are also giving trouble to our troops. More uneasiness, however, has been occasioned at home by the sews that it has been thought necessary to send reinforcements to British Burmah, in consequence of the Boyal proceedings at Mandelay. The country, with distress Btili prevailing, is in no mood for another " little war."
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Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4290, 30 April 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)
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