ENGLISH & FOREIGN

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2213, 30 March 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN

[eeutee’s telegeams.] LONDON, March 29. Expensive Work, la the action hronght by Mr LevyLawson, proprietor of the “ Daily Telegraph,” against Mr Labouchero, M.P. for Northampton, and proprietor of “ Truth,” for libel, the jury were unable to agree, and wore discharged without returning a verdict. The Ex-Premier-The Right Hon. Earl Beaconsfield is at the present time seriously indisposed. The exact nature of his illness has not transpired. CAPETOWN, March 28. The War. News has been received from Basuto land announcing that the Basutos have made a raid through the Boteka district, and have captured a large number of cattle and horses from the settlers. Telegrams have come to hand to-day from the Transvaal, bringing news that the British garrison at Potchefstroom, which had been besieged by the Boers since the outbreak of hostilities in the Transvaal, yielded to the enemy on the day on which the treaty of peace between Sir Evelyn Wood, on behalf of the British, 'and the Boer leaders was signed. Before the garrison surrendered however, desperate fighting, lasting for several hours, took place, and the British suffered a loss of eighteen killed and fully ninety wounded. The loss of the Boers is not stated.