Late English News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3823, 30 March 1881, Page 1

Late English News.

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London, March 20;

A division has been taken on Mr Glad* stone's motion to declare the question of supply urgent. There was a full House, and the result showed 242 for the motion and 296 against it, giving a majority of 84 against the Government. The Irish members of the House of Commons have agreed not to obstruct supply, except as regards certain rates. it is expected that the death of th* Emperor Alexander will force a solution of the Eastern Question. It is announced that, if it should be considered desirable by the military authorities, the Transvaal armistice, which is about to expire, will be prolonged. The Borne Government have authorised a continuance until the 18th inst. Earl Granvilie, in the House of Lords, and Mr Gladstone, in the House of Commons, referred to the assassination, of. the Emperor of Russia. They spoke ia eulogistic terms of bis late majesty. 1 _ Patrick Joseph Sheridan, who was one of the traversers recently tried for conspiracy in the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland, and discharged because the jury were unable to agree, has been arrested under the Coercion Act. The celebration of St. Patrick's day was attended by some rioting amongst the I Irish soldiers quartered at Aldershot. The disturbance lasted three hours, and it was found necessary to charge the rioters at the point-of the b«yonet. L Some Berii ons injuries were inflicted. » The Prince of Wales will represent the Queen at the funeral of the late Emperor Alexander of Bussia. 4 The attempts to destroy the Mansion House by exploding a box of gunpowder, which was placed on the windowcill, are attributed to Fenians. A mine lending to the palace of the Czarewitch, the present Emperor of Bussia has been found under the street in which the building is situated, and in a house close by a large quantity of explosives were discovered. The object in view was evidently the destructions of the Crarewitch's palace and the inmates. The Bussian Press advocates a great political change in the Empire, in the direction of liberalising the form of Government. A decree has been issued by the Emperor of Bussia which lessens the severity of the Siberian exile. j Parliament have voted the sum .of £500,000, being the amount of subsidy of the Indian revenue account, for England's liability of the expense of the Afghan The Emperor of Russia has thanked | tlie. Houses of Lords and Commons for S the-addresses of CGodclence on the death. ■■■ef. his'father, the late Emperor Alexander. j 5S been issued by the Russian. | Governns@c4-^?«)33i3in'g; interaatioual . developments Vifcb th'^jiewof ameliorating the political 'condition "of -:tfes3?eplf t .£Qd '.advocasing's pacific foreign policy. This'"' r has favourably impressed the various European Governments. ; The ceremony of removing the remains of the late Emperor Alexander'to'the cathedral of St. Petersburg was performed with great pomp. The new Czar looked pale, but was cool and collected,. ::"Severahiinportant:arreßtß : of-.-|i[ihilists have been made. Great disco?eries are '• continually being made in St. Petersburg of Nihilist plots, and of infernal machine! ? laid down in various parts of the city. Levy Lawson, editor and proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, has brought an action for libel in the Court of Queen's Bench against Mr Laboucbere, M.P. for Northampton, and the" proprietors of Truth. Chief Justice Coleridge'ai remarks during the hearing of the! case have "been favour of Mr Labouchere.' -

Sir George W. Cox calculates that the English custom of horse shoeing*costs the nation every, year on an average-nearly nine million sterling in hard cash, every penny of which might be saved if horses were allowed to go unshod- The facts and figures on which he bases this extraordinary conclusion are published ia Fraser's Magazine for December. - Quoting an imposing array of authorities trom Xenophon, whose ÜBshod cavalry inarched from Cunaxa over the Armenian highlands to the walls of Trebizorid down to the ."Tree-Lances "."of the present day, Sir G-eorge Cox contends that it is safer, cheaper, and in every way better to let horses go unshod over the hardest" roads —especially over the slippery asphalte of London streets. Two millions and a quarter per annum would then be saved in farriers' bills alone ; but this ia only a fractional part of the money which would then be saved by trebling of the duration of equine existences. Horses which are used up when twelve years of age would, he contends, last fourteen years longer if they were not shod; and the value of this prolongation of the wording life of a horse he estimates at £135,000,000 in twentyone years, or nearly six and a half millions per annum. Sir George ruins his oase by overstating it. If he really believes that, for instance, a London cabman's horse, if unshod, would be able to work twentythree years instead of the nine which now suffice to wear it out he will proSably not find a single practical man to share his opinion.—Pall Mall Gazette. . Herbert Spencer is sick nearly all the time. Wh*t doth it profit a man to know all the philosophy in the world and not have control over his own interior ? Miss Bird, a recent traveller in the Japan islands, fell in with an aboriginal race with hair so abundant over their bodies as to render clothing superfluous. Germany has almost doubled its debt, and quite doubled its annual budget and taxation since 1866, The European states in general, have increased taxes 40 pec cent. A great catacomb has 'just been discovered before the. St. Fanorazia Gate at Some. It has ten chapels; and extends as far as the foundations of the villa Doria Pamphillie '.'''. .