Late European News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 121, 28 April 1883, Page 2

Late European News.

IHE GREAT FIRE XIST LONDON. IRISH TACTICS. SETTLEMENT of THE MADAGASCAR DIFFICULTY. (Special to Melbourne Age.) (UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION".) London, April 17. A disastrous fire broke oat m London last night. It originated m Rose*sbrcet, which leads from Newgate«street to St. Paul 'B Churchyard, and ib spread with alarming rapidity. Before the progress of the flames could be arrested six buildings were completely destroyed, including the premises of Messrs 0. Kegan, Paul, and Co, and of Mr Kingsbury, the Fell-known publisher. St. Paul's Cathedral was il laminated m a brilliant manner by the fire. The fire is now subsiding. A departure m the tactics of the Irish conspirators is reported. It is stated that as the system of employing dynamite to effect their purposes has proved unavailing the leaders of the Irish League intend to abandon that policy. The report is regarded with suspicion. . The Government of Madagascar have consented to submit to the terms proposed by France, and a definite amicable arrangement has been entered into. France will accordingly withdraw the war vessels which have been employed m blockading the jiadagascar ports.

(Per s.s. Hauroto from Sydney.) St. Petersburg, April 18; News is to hand from Katawanoffski, a town on the River Ufa, of a disastrous fire that had taken place there, resulting m the destruction of no less than 600 houses, besides a large quantity of other property. London, April 19. F«rth« r intelligence m regard to the reported fiading of a box contaiuing explosives m the vicinity of the Salisbury Cathedral, tends to show that the affair was merely a hoax. (

(From the London Letter of the Sydney Morning Herald.) Dr Carver, the champion rifle shot, intends taking 25 head of American ) trotting stock to Australia. Two American astronomers have jast discovered a new comet. It is travelling eastward from the sun, and may probably soon be visible m Europe. It is now proposed, with the approval of Lord Duffrtrin, to send a Commission to Europe for xiko selection of Judges to preside over the hew Native Courts, it having been decided that the material i available m Egypt is scarcely satisfactory. ... j According to Lord Cranbrook the colonies are "distracted and distrust- ' fnl," owing to the utterances and J actions of the present Government. " The minds of all our fellow-country-men m the colonies are affected." Those are grave chargts, and we (European Mail) &sk, with the Echo, Where is the proof? In what single colony. is there.! disaffection, or any sign of it ? Why i should there be ?, ■'-'■ When the Supplementary Estimates for the Egyptian campaign were before the House of Commons on March 2, an interesting discussion arose, m the course of which Mr Onslow said "he did not see how India had derived greater advantage from the result of the war than Australia or Nsw Zealand. If India must bear any part of the expense, some others of Her Majesty's colonies ought also to be called upon to pay for the safety of the Suez Canal, being an Imperial concern." Mrs Doloughty, widow of the man i for whoso murder Francis Hynes was i executed, sailed for Otago on March 1, .1 vmh her seven children. The Mail newspaper got up a fund for her, amounting to £154, and Mr Clifford Lloyd gave her an additional £50. After Hynes' execution she was com* pletely " boycotted " by her neighbours, and found it impossible to live m the country.