ADDITIONAL ENGLISH.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3549, 11 May 1880, Page 2

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH.

London, April 28. The Duke of Marlborough, Viceroy of Ireland, has vacated office in due course owing to the change. His Grace and the Duchess, his wife, having rendered themselves extremely popular with the Irish people were accorded an enthusiastic ovation on the occasion of taking their departure from Dublin. They were presented with an address by the City Corporation, and representatives of the principal public institutions attended to express the deepest gratitude and esteem, more especially in connection with the steps taken by the Duchess ot Marlborough for the relief of the famine-striken peasants of the Western districts of Ireland. A general meeting of the Orient Steam Company was held to-day, when a satisfactory report was submitted, and the usual dividend declared. The chairman congratulated the shareholders on the success of the returns of the Company for the year, and considered that their trade with the Australian colonies showed every sign of increasing. With improved prospects in business, it was intended to doable the capital of the Company, thus raising the amount to £1,000,000, and also fit up their steamers with necessary machinery for conveying from the colony to the Home market, cargoes of animals preserved by the freezing processes. London, April 29. Mr Thomas Brassey will be the Civil Lord of the Admiralty in the new Ministry. Earl Granville has reassured the Austrian Ambassador in London of the friendly feeling of the Government towards Austria, with a view to more effectually calm the irritation produced by Mr Gladstone's speech. The Chinese Government is blockading the fort of Maco, and is enforcing an old claim. The rupture threatens to be of a serious nature. It is currently expected that Mr Gladstone intends reducing the 3 per cent, consols to 2| per cent., and that he will propose the abolition of the Income Tax. The "Daily NWs" states that Abberrahaman Shan, a cousin of the ex-Ameer, Yakoob Khan, has offered to submit to the British Government. He denies that he received Russian aid during his exile from Afghanistan. May li.

Earl Cowper, E.G., has been appointed Viceroy of Ireland, and proceeds immediately to Dublin to enter on his duties. The Royal British Commissioner in London has undertaken to made all-neces-sary provision for the representation of British exhibitors at Melbourne International Exhibition. ' Sir Cunliffe Owen, who represented the British interests at Jhe Paris Exhibition, has been appointed Executive Commis- | sioner. Mr George Collins Levy, the j Secretary of the Melbourne International j Exhibition, has left England for Melbourne by the Lusitania. There have been serious inundations in Arafton, one of the north-east provinces of Spain. Several of the most important rivers having their rise in the Pyrenees have overflowed their banks, and caused much destruction of property ia many towns and low-lying countries. Since the attempted assassination of General Louis Melikoff by Weatlersky, who was a baptised Jew, all foreigners of that nation in Russia, have been kept under strict police surveillance. It has j been discovered that the would-be assassin , has accomplices amongst them, and General Melikoff, acting under the plenary powers conferred by the Ukase of the Czar, has issued a proclamation ordering all foreign Jews forthwith, to leave St. Petersburg. May 3. General Sir Donald Stewart having completed his arrangements for the security of the British possession at Ghuznee, has proceeded toCabul. On his arrival there, as he is senior to General Sir F. Roberts, and acting in accordance with instructions from the Viceroy, he assumed the supreme command of the operations in Afghanistan, superseding General Robert*.

Disquieting intelligence has been received concerning the fidelity of the Maharajah of Cashmere, and grave suspicions have been aroused by the discovery of facts which indicate that attempts have been made by Russian emissaries to tamper with this ruler, and there is reason to believe the Maharajah to be to some extent implicated in the Russian intrigue. The various European Ministers accredited to the Chinese Government at Pekin have applied to their several Governments for squadrons, in order to protect the subjects of European powers in view of the present state of affairs in China. The Pall Mall Gazette has changed ownership, and will henceforth appear as a Liberal paper. Mr F. Greenwood, the editor, and the whole of ihe staff, have declined to remain under the altered conditions, and intend starting a new organ. ■.'