CABLE MESSAGES.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XI, Issue 3184, 3 December 1878, Page 3

CABLE MESSAGES.

(reuter's SPECIAL.)

PROPOSED NEW COKVENTIOK.

Constantinople, Dec. 1

It is reported negotiations are proceeding between the Porte and Great Britain for a new convention with the object of ensuring greater influence and the right of intervention in Turkish affairs. BRITISH ENGAGEMENT,—AFGHANS DEFEATED. .Bombay, December 2. Robert's force advanced, and found the enemy at the Piewar Pass. Made a reconnaissance, and disclosed the enemy's position. An engagement ensued, resulting in the defeat of the Afghans. The British loss fs slight. GLADSTONE'S CONDEMNATION; London, Beccnfber 1. Mr Gladstone was on Saturday banqueted at Greenwich, and urged the Liberals to united action. At the invitation of the Tories he afterwards addressed a monster gathering at Woolwich. 110 reviewed the policy of the present Government, condemning secret treaties and the growing expenditure of the Afghan war without consulting Parliament, and the general abridgment of the liberties of the people. London, November 30. The s.s. ' Queensland' has arrived, The money market is rather firm. The bank minimum is unchanged. Bank three months' bills are Government securities are steady. Consols are 96. Wool is dull, and prices, as compared with last series, show a decline on the best scoured of l|d, and medium inferior 2d to 2|d. Reserved lots are neglected. New Zealand greasy is Id lower, and cross brecls depressed. Of 70,000 bales catalogued, 10,000 were withdrawn. The corn market is firm and steady. New Zealand, 4s 2d to 4s 7d. London, November 28. Consols j bank rate 5; market rate i\; debentures unchanged. London, November 30. The Afreedis attacked a signalling party in the Kyber Pass, which was blocked by convoys, but were stopped. Heavy firing at Ali Musjid, but only one tribe hostile. London, December 1. The deplomatic correspondence from Central Asia shows that general Kauffman is in constant communication with the Ameer, The Russian Government first denied that their troops are inarching to Cabul, but afterwards treated the matter as an independent act of Kaufman's, declaring that he was only on sick leave, and the motive was one of simple courtesy to the Ameer. Russia repeats her past assurances, that she has no intention of intervention in Afghanistan affairs. Forty leaders of the Socialists, including two members of the German Parliament, have been expelled from Berlin,