LONDON. 31st December.
The Pope appeals to the German Bishops to inculcate the duty of obedience to the laws of the land. His Holiness also directs the bishops and clergy to pray for the welfare of the secular powers, including the temporal sovereigns of Europe. Another intended assassination of a European sovereign has been discovered, a plot to murder the Prince of Servia having been detected. The report of the liquidators of the City of Glasgow Bank is of a very unfavorable character. Ist January. General Hill has, for the present, stopped all traffic through tba Kbyber Pass. Four of the Ameer's regiments have deserted his standard. Three -fourths of General Biddulph's division bave taken up a position on the plain of Candabar, and there is a general advance of the British troops on Candahar. 3rd January. One elf the 81-ton guns on board H.M. turret-ship Thunderer exploded; destroying the turret, and killing seven mon and woiinding forty others.
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Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 313, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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159LONDON. 31st December. Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 313, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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