LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3243, 22 November 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

November 8. Earl Kimberley has intimated that the British Government are willing to accede

to the wish expressed by Oetewayo, the ex-Zulu King, who is now confined at )*£!ape Colony, to be allowed to visit England, in order to lay his grievances before Her Majesty. Lord Brabourne, an ex-Under-Secretary of the Colonies, in the course of an address delivered last night at the Empire Club, contended that the present close relations existing between the colonies and the mother country increased the strength of Great Britain and should therefore be maintained. Mr Sprigg, ex-Premier of the Cape Colony, replied that the disunion of the colonies from England was inadmissable, and if adopted would prove hurtful to both. The professional advisers attached to the Navy Department of the United States have recommended the Federal Government to largely increase the naval forces of the Republic. They advise the immediate construction of 41 additional cruisers and gun boats. -. The Board of Trade returns for the past month show that there is an improvement in the Trade of Great Britain which had been manifest for some time, and which steadily continue?. Mr McDevitt has been appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Irish Land Court. The annual banquet to the Lord Mayor of London was held at the Guildhall last night. Mr Gladstone, in responding to a toast of "Her Majesty's Government," said that he and his colleagues were determined to maintain the law in Ireland. Referring to the. recent South African difficulties, he expressed a belief that the foundation of State concord had been ylaid at.the Cape. In alluding to the over-pressure of work in the British Parliament, it was cow a subject, he stated, that, in the interest of the nation, required immediate reform in proceedure in the House of Commons. Lord Granville also replied, and reviewed the operations of the Foreign Office duriug the last year making special reference to v V r the concerted action of the two countries in Egypt, and the good effects which bad been produced in Albania owing to the influence brought to bear on the Porte. Alluding to the want of success which had hitherto attended the efforts of the Commissioners in respect to the removal of the Anglo-French commercial treaty, his Lordship observed that the British Government would conclude no duty less favorable to British manufactures than that existing at the present time. In consequence of Earl Dufferin having intimated that the Powers will refuse to allow Russia to absorb the Bulgarian territory, Mr Bourke's mission to the Porte iv the interests of the Turkish bondholders looks more hopeful ot success. Four boats containing 130 passengers of the steamer Koning der Nederlanden, which was wrecked a few weeks since in the Indian Ocean, are still missing. The Lord Mayor's show took place today. In the procession through the city to the Exchequer Court at Westminster, where the Lord Mayor was sworn in, the American flag occupied a place of honor, and the populace exhibited tremendous enthusiasm. $ A typhoon or whirlwind has swept over Western China, occasioning the loss of many lives, and the destruction of a vast amount of property. Two thousand houses and one hundred churches were blown down. The Chiuese Government are making vigorous efforts to suppress the piracy now prevailing in the Eastern Seas, and one Imperial gunboat has just dcsone hundred pirates. The question between Russia and Turkey as to the payment of the war indemnity due by the latter to the former is warmly disputed, and the Porte has decided that a settlement with Russia concerning the indemnity can only take place after the conclusion of Mr Bourke's

negotiation with the Turkish "Govern ment.

Sir Samuel Wilson contests in the Conservative interest, with the SolicitorGeneral for Ireland, the seat in the House of Commons for the County of Londonderry, rendered vacant by the promotion of Attorney-General Law to the Irish Chancellorship. The Boers having accepted the convention, the British troops are rapidly leaving the Transvaal. The Transvaal Government is excluding English traders and miners from the territory, and a monopoly of the goldSelds has been given.

Benjamin Wolsey, Quarter-master-General, has been appointed AdjntantGeneral of the army, in defiance of the wishes of the Commander-in-Chief, the Duke of Cambridge. Two hundred girls have been butchered in Asbantee. They were offered, according to the custom of the country, ?s religious victims. The British Government contemplates calling a convention of the great naval powers, with the object of converting measures for the protection of white people re?ident and trading in the South Sea. Thirty thousand workmen in the pottery districts have struck for higher wages. While riding for the Liverpool Cup, Macdonald, a jockey, was killed. The inhabitants of Zululand are again becoming unsettled. In addition to constant tribal disturbances, a famine has occurred, and it is occasioning much suffering among the natives. Through an explosion which occurred in a mine in Sicily, forty-eight persons have lost their lives. The Porte has dismissed all Christians from places in the gendermerie. November 11. The RevMr Plumtree.Vicar of Bickley, Kent, has been appointed Dean of Bath and Welle. The Swiss Federal Chamber of Deputies has appointed a committee to consider the term proposed in the eoramercial treaties concluded with Great Britain, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and Norway. A majority of the members composing the committee are in favor of free trade. Much discontent exists among the French army in Tunis. Typhoid fever and dysentery are committing terrible ravages amongst the troops. Mr Falger has been appointed Secretary and Treasury of the United States in succession to Mr Windom. The police have seized in Bradford, Yorkshire, fifty revolvers which are believed to have been secreted by the Fenians, together with a quantity of cartridges. They have also discovered a host of members belonging to the Fenian organisation in connection with the discovery in Bradford. The Fenian Tobin has been arrested in Middlesboro', Yorkshire,

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