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DISSENSION IN THE CABINET. ME. FOBSTEB'S BEVOLUTIONABI sentiments. disclaimee by lobe &banville. The defeat of ayoub khan. ftIfITHEE~BEtAItS. CLEVEE MANffiUVBE BY GENEBAL EOBEETS. toNfioN, tiih September. lit the House of Lords to-day. Earl Gfanville, Secretary of S.tata for Foreign took oteeaeion to refer to ifie debates *rhich have taken place in the House of Commons on the subject of the rejection by the Lords of the Irish Registration of Voters Bill. His -Lordship, in the course of his remarks, said he desired to disavow any sympathy with the tenor of the speeches made by his colleague, Mr. W. E. Forster, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, who had blamed the Lords for persisting in a course "oaloulated to lead to the necessity for a change in the English Constitution." Calcutta, 6th September. Further intelligence has been received of the engagement between the British troops and Ayoub Khan in Candahar. The details show that General Roberts feigned an attack in full forde on Ayoub' s entrenchments at Baba Wall and J£ala> He succeeded in turning the enemy's positions, when they found' their retreat cut off by an over* whelming force in their rear, by which they were completely routed!
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Evening Post, Volume XX, Issue 209, 7 September 1880, Page 2
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