ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2170, 8 February 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABL E_NEWS.

[eeutee’s teleoeam.] LONDON, February 5. Obituary. The death is announced to-day, after a lingering illness, of Thomas Carlyle, the eminent author, aged eighty. The State of Ireland. News to hand from Ireland during the last few weeks shows that agrarian outrages have now almost entirely ceased. This is attributed mainly to the prompt measures which have been taken by the Government for the suppression of disorder. Ashantee Affaire. Further news from Sierra Leone confirms a telegram to hand yesterday, regarding the probability of an outbreak of war in the colony. It is now announced that the King of Ashantee demands that a refugee chief, who has placed himself under British protection in the colony, should be surrendered. Sir Samnel Rowe, Governor of Sierra Leone, has refused the demand, hence the threatened attack on the colony by Ashantees. LONDON, February 7. The Irish DifficultyPublic meetings have been held in London and in several Provincial towns, at which resolutions have been passed denouncing the Irish Coercion Bill now before Parliament. In addition to a complete cessation of outrages in Ireland, there are now signs that Irish tenants are giving way to the landlords, and will resume payment of rent for their holdings. BERLIN, February 7. Mr Goscben, the English Ambassador to the Porte, is visiting this city while en route for Constantinople. He has had audiences of the Emperor and Prince Bismark. ATHENS, February 7. A more moderate feeling now pervades among all classes in Greece in regard to the frontier question, and there seems every probability that the Turko-Greek difficulty will receive a peaceful settlement.