ENGLISH & FOREIGN

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2214, 31 March 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN

[eebtee's telegrams.] LONDON, March 29. The Tory Chief.

Earl Beaconsfield is suffering from i a severe attack of gout and asthma. A bulletin issued to-day states that his : Lordship passed a restless night. i The latest bulletin issued this evening ) regarding the health of Earl Beaconsfield, 1 reports his lordship to be progressing favorably towards recovery. 1 The Markets. Consols remain at par. New Zealand Five per Cent. 10.40 Loan, , 102 J; New Zealand Five per Cent., . 1889, Loan, 110£; Four-and-a-half per ' Cent. 1879-1905, Loan, 97i. Adelaide | wheat, ex warehouse, has declined to 50s ; New Zealand, ex ship, remains at 4Gs; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, is quoted at 345; Australian best beef tallow is unchanged, at 335, and best mutton, at 36s per cwt. The Mails. The homeward Australian mails, via Suez and Brindisi, were delivered here today. Editorial Nihilism. Government has instituted a prosecution against a newspaper called " Die Freihoit" (The Liberty), an organ of German Socialists, printed and issued in London, for publishing an article eulogising the act of the murderer of the Czar, and urging the assassination of other Crowned Heads, to gain the ends of Socialism. March 30. Greek Frontier. It is announced that the Ambassadors of the Powers at Constantinople, acting under authority from their respective Governments, have intimated to the Porto their acceptance of its last proposal for a settlement of the Greek frontier, namely, to cede to Greece a larger extent of territory in Thessaly than was previously offered, but the district cf Epirus and the Island of Crete to remain to Turkey. Dizzy on the Mend. Earl Beaconsfiold continues to improve, and will, it is expected, be soon restored to health. ATHENS, March 29. The Greek Difficulty. A Greek Army Corps has boon ordered I to the frontier in view of tho possibility ! of war with Turkey. Should war break • out the corps will concentrate at Chalcis, 1 a seaport seventeen miles north-east of 1 Thebes and an important stratagotical ' position near the frontier. ATHENS. M»rch 30. In accordance with a decision of the Powers to accept the Porte's proposal to * cede territory in Thessaly alone to Greece, ) ? the envoys of the Powers in this city are fl

strongly urging the Hellenic Government to agree to the proposal, and thus arrive at a settlement of the Tnrko* Greek difficulty.