The Thitieh Envoy to Cabal, Sir Louis Cavagnati, wee received
by the Ameer with even-- ostentatious honour. The Afghan Minister for Foreign Affairs metthe Envoy and his escort four miles from the capital, the entire garrison Was turned out to receive him—the bands playing "God save the Queen "- and the Ameer granted a first audience the same afternoon. Two good houses have been cleaned out for• the Mismioie and a guard of honour assigned for its protection. All this means that Yakoob Khan intends, as he must admit an English Envoy, to show his subjects and his world how close is the alliance between himself and the great Empire to the south ; but we miss one set of facts from the report published in the Times,—what was the reception given by the people to the Embassy ? It is from popular hatred, not from any neglect on the Amcor's part, that danger to the Mis- sion would arise, and among the chiefs of clans, not the reigning family, that the English would find their enemies. The point to be discovered now is, whether the factione opposed. to Yakoob Khan intend to make use of his-alliance with the Infidel as an argument to excite the populace against him, or whether they will play the other game of endeavouring to sow distrust be- tween the English and the Afghan Court. Intrigue they must, or life would be too. insipid.
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