ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2199, 14 March 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[keutee’s telegeams.J M U R*D E R OP THE C Z ST. PETEESBURGH, March 13. The Czar of Russia was murdered to* day by the explosion of a bomb-shelL LONDON, March 11. The Claimant. The House of Lords has dismissed the appeal made on behalf of the convict Thomas Castro, alias Arthur Orton, against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in June last, in discharging the writ of error which it was sought to prove against the decision of the Court of Queen’s Bench in 1874 in awarding two successive sentences of penal servitude on the two counts of the indictment. The Armistice with the BoersThe fact of an armistice having been agreed to with the Boers in the Transvaal is receiving much adverse criticism in the Press, and in political and military circles. The impression having got abroad that the armistice was sought by the British, a complete disavowal of the . statement that Sir Evelyn Wood had asked that hostilities should be suspended has been communicated to the Press by 1 Mr Gladstone, who moreover states that j although no definite information is i to hand as to the exact circumstances which i led to the armistice, he believes that the ’ proposal for the same originated with J President Brand of the Free State, who has for some time been using every endeavour to bring about peace. ' Mr Bradlaugh's PenaltyThe Divisional Court at Westminster . has disallowed Mr Bradlaugh’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s reply to his plea in the ' action Clark v Bradlangh, to recover penalties of £SOO each from defendant i for sitting and voting in the House of 1 Commons without haring first taken theoath prescribed by the Act of 1866. Commercial. L Consols have risen i, and are now . quoted at 99f. Adelaide wheat remains i at 49s 6d in warehouse, and New Zea--1 land, ex ship, at 455. Best Sydney * copra, £ls. Beet Australian leather has , declined to lid. i At the wool sales to-day 13,700 bales r were offered. There was again a good £ demand. I The Irish Arms Bill, i In the House of Commons to-day the B Irish Arms Bill was read a third time ® and passed, and transmitted to the House t of Lords for consideration. 9 The Cost of a Little War. , It is announced that England pays five millions sterling to the Indian Government as its share of the cost of 3 the last Afghan war. . LONDON, March 12. a Strange Overtures for PeaceIn the House of Commons to-day the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone made a statement regarding the position of affairs “ in the Transvaal. Ho announced that, , with a view to bring about a complete cessation of hostilities and a permanent settlement of the difficulty, Peace Comt missioners would ha appointed in the 3 Transvaal to undertake negotiations with , the Boers. [ CAPETOWN, March 12. E Excitement. : News to hand from Orange Free State announces that the population is at the- , present time much excited over the state , of affairs in the Transvaal, j CONSTANTINOPLE, March 11. Diplomatic. ■ The negotiations which have been pro- > coeding for the past three weeks between j the Ambassadors of the Powers in this i city and the Porte, with a view to detert mine the long-standing frontier dispute, ! are likely to have some result. It is now • understood that there are signs that the Porte will bo persuaded to agree to & conference for the settlement of the TurboGreek difficulty. CALCUTTA, March 11. 1 Not Required- ’ Intelligence has been received from ' Afghanistan that the army corps which | was despatched by the Ameer Ahdnl Rahman to Glmzueo last month as a pre- ' cautionary measure against any move- | ment on the part of Ayoub Khan, will now bo disbanded, as the force is no longer required.