ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2203, 18 March 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[eeutbr's telegram.] LONDON, Mareh 16. Hoesy. Three per Cent. Consols have risen one-eighth, and are to-day quoted at par. The market rate of discount has risen from 2} per cent, to 2-J per cent. The Bank, rate remains unchanged at 3 per cent. New Zealand securities are without quotable change. WoolAt the wool sale to-day 4700 bales were offered. The tone of the auction was firm. Afghan War. The Honse of Commons to-day voted the grant of £5,000,000 which is to be made to the Indian Government as England's share of the cost of the last Afghan war. LONDON, March 17. Nihilism in London. A box containing 4-01bs of gunpowder, with burning fuse attached, was found last night on a ledge of the wall of the Mansion Honse. ST. PETERSBTTRGH, March 16. More Precautions. It has been discovered that the palace which was occupied by the Emperor Alexander 111. when Czarowitz is undermined, and sappers are now searching with the object of ascertaining whether any explosives are concealed in the passages. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 16. The Irrepressible TurkDefinite information has transpired regarding the results up to present time of the negotiations which have been proceeding during the past three weeks, between the Ambassadors of the Powers and the Ottoman Government, with a view to determine the Turco-Greek frontier question. It is now known that the Porto recently offered to cede Thessaly to Greece, but the European ambassadors were at once unanimous in declining to accede to this arrangement, declaring that the proposed transfer of territory was totally inadequate to satisfy the legitimate demands of the Greek Government and the provisions of the treaty of Berlin. The Porte thereupon expressed its willingness to cede the Island of Crete to Greece, but absolutely refused to surrender the province of Epirus, which it was provided by the Berlin Treaty should form part of the extended Greek frontier. It is not known what reply has been returned by the Powers to this last proposal of the Porte.