Late English News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3818, 24 March 1881, Page 2

Late English News.

(Pee s.s. Te Anatt.)

. London, March 15. A genarel itnpressson prevails here that the death of Alexander 11. will force a speedy solution of the Eastern question. ( The second of the measures introduced | by the Government for the preservation of peace and security of property in Ireland, namely, the bill to prohibit the carrying of arms, except under license, has passed its final stages in the House of Commons, and was transmittad to the House of Lords for concurrence. It is well known that the firm of Caird, Williamson and Co., have foiled with liabilities of £100,0(0. The Cb' Tiao conditions of peace are stated to be the cession of Antofagasta aud surrounding districts, surrender of the allied fleet, payment of a war indemnity of £30,C30,0J0 sterling, Peru to contribute £20,000,000, and Bolivia £10,0C0,000. Until the full payment of the indemnity, ChiU will occupy CaUas, and will work on its own account the guano deposits, and copper rud saltpetre tcines. The semi- official North German Gazette lately published articles violently at'ackiDg Gambetta, and declaring <hat bis accession to power would be viewed in Germmy with deep distiast, as indicate the triumph of the French wrr party. London, February 11. The King of Ashantee sent ambassadors, bearing a gold cxc as a symbol of war, demanding from the Governor of Cape Coast Castle the surrender of the refugee chief who escaped from imprisonment at Coomassie. Tne Governor refused compliance, and sent a company of troops, with three guns, to Prahsut. An Ashantee invasion is commorly expected. Lord Hartington daclared that the disclosures in the correspondence with regard to the seizure at Kabul, wiH not affect the resolution of the Government to abandon Candaher. Mr Goschen is now on his way back to Consta itinople, On his return hither the ambassadors of the Powers will commence negotiations with the Porte upon the lurro Greek frontier difficulty. Noth'u.qj has yet been settled however, as to the form of procedure, nor as to how the ambassadors will act after hav;ng made their representations to the Porte. Not much confidence is felt m the diplomacy beiug able to avert a co'lision between Turkey and Greece in the spring. Preparations continue on both sides on a scale implying that hostilties are considered inevitable. Bombay, February 25. The pensus taken throughout India on the 17th instant passed oft'veiy quietly, Sir Henry Daly has gone home. Sir .Frederick Haines leaves India on 7th March, when General Stewart, will assume the position of Com'ina'ader-in-Chief. The remains of the French botarist and traveller, Victor Jaques imart, are to be exhumed at Bombay, and conveyed to France in a French wp.v vessel for reinterment.