LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4473, 7 May 1883, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

(Via the Bluff.)

(Fee Pbbss Association.)

[Age Specials.]

• London, April 23. The forces of El Mahdi, the false prophet, recently attacked one of the. cities of Soudan, but they were successfully repulsed.. The Egyptian troops which were compelled to retire on Khartoum to ob-* tain fresh supplies, are making active preparations for a renewal of the contest with Mahdi.

It is rumored that the Hight Hon. W. Forster will succeed the Marquis of Lome as Governor-General of Canada.

The Irish National Convention held its first sitting yesterday at New York, fiooney was elected President, and in the course of his opening: address upheld the action which the Irisk had taken all through the agitation, and refrained from saying a word which might be considered in condemnation q; the dynamite outrages. . , The excitement; attendant upon the proceedings of the Convention has led the U.S. Government to lake action in the matter. A Cabinet meeting was held yesterday to consider the subject, and a discussion took place as to the best means of suppressing Fenian head centres, and preventing leaders of the party from stimulating their agents to further dynamite outrages.

Representatives from the Canadian Land Companies have waited upon the Dominion Government.and proposed that Parliament shall vote a sum of one million dollars for immigration purposes, and enable 10,000 families to settle upon land. <; -

Earl Dufferin has stated that it is necessary to draw the attention of the Turkish authorities to the disgraceful ; manner in which Armenia is being governed at the present time. ' '.. ' : It is reported that Sir John Macdonald, Premier of Canada, has'been accused of having committed perjury. It is considered probable that the Orient Steam Navigation Co. will not declare a dividend for the past' : half-year. -

It I as been ascertained that Grey, the clerk in the Telegraph. Department, who asserted that he had been kidnapped by Fenians, and- kept in confinement for several days is suffering from mental aberration, resulting from injuries which he received"tb his head about Easter last. The Czar has definitely resblved. to abandon the idea of coronation.. "'■ ''.'' ' ; Considerable excitement exists in London over the proposed duplication of the Suez Canal, the necessity for which was reoently : uege d by a ; deputation of merchants upon Earl Granville. 'A .secret^,meieitingrP^he friends, of the dynamite policy .has been held in New York. O'Donovan Eossa, who was present, announced that he still had unshaken belief in the value of dynamite, as an agent in obtaining' their demands, and that tie was prepared to continue it until those demands were conceded.

„■.. The German Government has.entereda protest against the manner in which the Porte is carrying on the administration in Armenia, and strongly advises the Sultan to introduce a number of necessary reforms. . >

Affairs at Port Said are in a highly unsettled state, and British troops are constantly kept on patrol. A number of Arabs recently attempted to destroy the Greek Church, and a serious conflict followed, in the course of which several Greeks were killed. British troops even: tually came upon the'scene, and put an end to the disturbance.

A report is current that a crisis in Egypt is imminent; the Khedive having refused to accept the reforms proposed by Lord Dufferin.