BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2506, 1 April 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter’s Agency,j A Raid on Socialism. London, March 29. Government has instituted proceedings against a newspaper called “ Dio Freiheit ” (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. The editor has been arrested. Critical State of the Ex-Premier. March 30. A bulletin issued this evening regarding the health of Earl Beaconsfiold reports that he has suffered a relapse and is now in a critical state. Much anxiety is felt throughout the country in regard to His Lordship’s illness. The Porte’s Offer Accepted. It is announced that the Ambassadors of the Powers at Constantinople, acting under instructions from their Governments, have intimated to the Porte their acceptance of its last proposal for the settlement of the Greek frontier question, namely, to cede to Greece a larger extent of territory in Thessaly than previously offered, but the district of Epirus and the Island of Crete to remain to Turkey. In accordance with the .decision of the Powers to accept the Porte’s proposal to cede the territory in Thessaly alone to Greece, the Envoys of the Powers in this city are strongly urging the Hellenic Government to agree to the proposal, and thus arrive at A settlement of the Turco-Greek difli culty. Greece Dissents. The Greek Press to-day, in discussing the proposals made by the Porte for the settlement of the frontier question, bitterly repudiate any obligation, on the part of Greece to accept the terms offered by Turkey, and urge a firm refusal of the same.