LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 3 August 1880, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE AGE.) London, July 19. A match has been arranged to be played in September next between the Australian Eleven and eleven of the beat cricketers in England. A good deal of interest is attached to the proposed match. Much surprise has been created in London fashionable circles by the announcement that a marriage has been arranged between the Baroness BurdettCoutts and Mr. Ashmed Bartlett, the member for Eye. The Baroness is 66 years of age, and is considerably older than her intended husband. Mr. Bartlett was elected in the Conservative interest at the late general election, and is one of the new members of Parliament. The Princess Louise, "wife of the Governor-General of Canada, is in a very delicate state of health. - She is suffering from the effects of the sleigh accident which occurred some time ago* The shock to her nervous system ia now exhibiting itself. She has been ordered by her medical advisers to Germany. She will leave Canada immediately, and will be ac- | cornpanied by her brother, Prince Leopold, iwho hags relinquished his intention of making a tour of the United States. The Hydaspes, a ship of 2093 tons, Captain E. S. Babot, bound from London to Melbourne, was run into by the Centurion, a screw steamer of 1178; tons, off Dungeness, and sank.. The latter vessel proceeded oft her voyage, and the extent of the damage sustained by her ia not known. Madame Sfeobeloff, mother of the celebrated Russian General, Michael Skobeloff, r\ow in command of the Central Asian expedition, has been murdered at Tchigrin, a in the district of Kief. The husband of the deceased, as well as her son, is an officer of distinction in the Russian army. The outrage is. attributed to the system of terrorism adopted by the Nihilists. The principal assassin having been recognised was pursued, but he committed suicide to avoid arrest. The others engaged in the murder have been captured. There are ominous signs of Avar in the | Balkan Peninsula. The Government of Bulgaria are massing troops on the Roumelian frontier, with the apparent object of securing possession of the Bulgarian provinces south of the Balkans. Remonstrances have been addressed to the Buiarian Government on the subject. | July 20. The Baroness Burdett Coutts publishes a denial of the statement made in the press of her intended marriage with Ashmed ■B&rtlett, the member for Eye,, whioh was ! cor ?idered a hoax. i P, the Wimbledon meeting to-.day, the QuJen's Pri&e was won by Private Ferguson, a native of- Argyle, Scotland. July 21. . Intelligence has been received from the Cape that the disaffection caused among the Basuto tribes by the determination of the Cape Government to enforce surrender of arms has resulted in an open rebellion of the natives. Letsie, one of the principal chiefs, has advised his people to give up their guns, but his example has not been generally followed. Prompt ! measures have been taken for suppression of the outbreak. July 22. The proposal to erect the memorial to the Prince Imperial in Westminster Abbey has been abandoned, consequent upon the pronounced disapproval of the House of Commons, Her Majesty the Queen, however, has sanctioned the erection of the memorial at Windsor, her consent being given on the ground that the Prince was killed whilst fighting under the English flag, and also as a token of personal esteem and friendship for the afflicted mother, the Empress Eugenie. An almost incredible, but rwell authenticated story is reported from New York. Dr. Tanner, a member of the medical profession of that city, avowing his belief in the possibility of sustaining human life without food for much beyond the

ordinary accepted time, haa Undertaken to attempt the feat of fasting 'for 40 dav* His proposal was accepted, and arrange ments were made for a thoroughly acientific test. Dr. Tanner has already fasted for twenty-five days without taking food ' of any description. He has been most strictly watched by qualified persons, and the utmost precaution taken to g'uard against deception. He is much weaker but is; still • hopeful of - accomplishing forty days. The experiment naia excited intense'interest among* the medical profession and the public generally. At Wimbledon the Irish team won the Elcho Challenge Shield. (SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE ARGUS.) London, July 23. From information received at th© Foreign Office, it is believed that tho Russo-Chinese difficulty may bo amicably settled. It is rumored at St. Petersburg that the Turkomans have captured and boheaded General Skobeloff, the commander of the Russian expedition sent against them. Madame Skobeloff, who was recently murdered near Philipopolis, was treasurer of the Panslavic cause, and is such carried large sums of money about with her. It is now supposed that plunder was the cause of her assassination. The outlook in regard to Turkey becomes more gloomy, especially in connection with the Greek and Bulgarian difficulties.