LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3578, 15 June 1880, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

TIA THE BLUFF.

London, June 4 GERMANY.

The agitation which has for some time been going on in Germany with a riew to moving the Government to adopt a comprehensive scheme of colonisation is likely to have the desired effect. The capaabilities of the Island of Borneo have been urged, there being areas there which are not claimed as within the jurisdiction of either the British or Dutch Governments. THE BURIALS BILL. In the House of Lords last evening the New Burials Bill was introduced by the Lord Chancellor, which enables nonconforming clergymen to officiate at interments of members of their denomination in the burial grounds attached to the Episcopalian Churches, and was read a second time. It met with a good deal of opposition, but on a division the reading mm was carried by a majority of 25. -' THE CZARINA.

The Empress of Russia, who since her return to St. Petersburg from the South of France, has been suffering from the effects of a lingering and painful illness, died yesterday at the Winter Palace, aged 56. , London, June 4. BURMAH. The rebellion in Burmah caused by the unendurable opposition of King Thebau bas excited consternation in Mandallay. The King despatched a body of troops against the rebels, but in a battle which ensued the royalist army was repulsed and defeated with considerable loss. A general up-rising is anticipated, and there are fears of an outbreak at Mandallay. TURKEY. Mr Goschen had an interview with the Sultan yesterday. The Sultan received him cordially,, but the result of his interview has not transpired. London, June 5. THE SHORT SERVICE SYSTEM.

A military Commission was appointed to report upon the state of the British army, and have recommended tbe abolition of the short service system. London June 7. ANTI-BENT AGITATION. .1 The anti-rent; agitation in Ireland is being rented. A mass meeting was

held on Saturday at Tipperary. There was a large attendance, and much excitement was occasioned by the presence of the reporters commissioned by Government to take down the speakers' orations with the view of instituting proceedings for seditious utterances if such were deemed advisable. The mob rushed at the reporters were violently ejected from the meeting. Declamatory denunciations were then made on landlordism and absenteeism as being the source of misery in Ireland.