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Show ' EUROPE. Simla, 19. A vice-regal council haB been specially summoned for to-day to consider t'be draft of the Afghan treaty. The Ameer baa agreed tu such terms as will securB the chief objects of the British policy. News from Caihmere ia very bad The increase of diatreos and famine, joined to the incompetency, corruption corrup-tion and want of organization on the part of the otlioials, ia producing the moat serious state of afiairs. Cholera in Peshawar is threatening to raise an obstacle to the prompt withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. Afghanis-tan. London, 19. Three-fourths of the Durham collieries resumed work to day. Berne, 19. Complete returns of the popular vote give 191,197 in favor of and 177,263 against a reestablish-ment reestablish-ment of oapital punishment. Bombay, 19. Incendiary fires, kindled by native malcontents, continue con-tinue in Poonah district. The Indian police have killed the ringleader aud feur men belonging to a band of daooita near the city of Poonah. ! Several others were wounded. |
