SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2100, 16 November 1880, Page 3

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

[BY CABLE FROM ALBANY.]

TPeb Reutbb’s Agency.] ALBANY, November 15. The Khedive arrived at 7.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, October 6, A general disposition exists to allow England to take the initiative and make_ any proposals for future action. These, it is understood, have bean already made, but nothing authentic is known concerning their tenor.- Various reports are current pointing to some energetic action calculated to produce an international crisis, and to the forcing of Turkey by coercion. What is regarded as most probable is a collective occupation and an embargo of the ports in the -32gean Sea, while other accounts speak of a naval demonstration before Constantinople and the deposition of the Sultan. Current events are regarded with grave anxiety owing to the conflicting interests of the Powers, and the probability that the Principalities will take advantage of the general confusion to secure a share of the spoils of Turkey. Already tho German press expresses jealousy of England, and distrusts Mr Gladstone’s policy, hinting at an alliance between England and Russia as unfavorable to Austrian-German interests.

A deputation of Irish landowners waited on the Lord Lieutenant and Mr Forster yesterday, and stated their views on the condition of the country. Forty members of the Lordlords Association attended, and the deputation, which comprised altogether 101 landowners, representing more than half the propeity in Ireland, was introduced by Lord Donoghue, who in a long speech urged the necessity of Government taking steps to decrease the present feeling of dread on the part of the landed class, and to repress tho agitations, which were extended over the whole of the country. The Viceroy, while expressing hatred of the agrarian outrages, and confirming the statements of tho deputation, said the Cabinet alone had power to deal with such matters, and he therefore referred the deputation to Mr Forster, to ask him if the Government would fulfil its duty by protecting life and property, or whether the landlords were to

protect themselves. Mr Forster staled that the Government would do what it could within the law, and if further measures were necessary they would be of an exceptional character. Some landlords are leaving their houses guarded by their own retainers, and others are employing persons to protect them.

BOMBAY, October 22. General Primrose’s description of the siege operations at, and the sortie from, Oandahar, are published, and also the Commander-in-Cfcief and the Viceroy's comments thereon. The Oommander-in-Ohief considers that the abandonment of the cantonment was too precipitate, considering the force General Prim* rose had under his command, and that it must have tended to confirm the demoralisation amongst the troops caused by their imperfect formation. With regard to the sortie the Oommander-in-Ohief thinks the reasons assigned for it are not satisfactory, and that as to the effect produced en the enemy, even if the results were as successful as General Primrose reports them to have been, they were far too dearly bought with the loss of so many valuable officers and men. The siege opsrationojgenerally, the Oommander-in-Ohief says, appear to have been good. General Primrose is on his way to Bombay, where he will be ordered to report himself at the Horse Guards.