LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4590, 20 September 1883, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

London, September 4.

Latest intelligence from Annam is that the 15.0C0 Chinese troops, who were recently reported' as 'having crossed the frontier, are now advancing on Haiphong, one of the French garrisons in Annam.

The !N"ational, a political journal pub- , Hshed in Paris, has expressed a hope that the French war vessels, the Bruat and the D'Estrees, which sailed from Noumea recently for New .Hebrides, wilLpre'vent Australia from annexing those is rands.

An investigation has been made into the poisoning of a number of labourers who were working in a field in New Boss,"* v County Wexford. It now appears probable hat the poisoning was the? result of an accident. .

The' Marquis of Hartington has expressed the opinion that France has not satisfactorily explained the action of - Admiral Pierre in detaining the captain and officers of the war vessel Dryad at Tamatave. He' .thinks a further and fuller explanation should be insisted upon. The severe weather which has recently prevailed in England has destroyed onethird of the hop crops, September 9. The Government of Russia has decidedS^ on a series of reforms to be introduced into Rumania. „ General Hicks, the. leader of the forces who have for some tjfce past been engaged in the campaign against El Mahdi,, the false prophet of the Soudan, is now advancirig his troops with a view to recapturing El Obeo, the capital tdWn of Kordufan, Central Africa.

The anti-European feeling which recently manifested itself amongst the Chinese residents in" Canton is rapidly spreading to other towns in China. At Hong Song the Chinese have assumed a menacing attitude towards the Europeans, and the situation is co alarming that a complete panic prevails in that town. Englishmen in Hong Koag are loijlrin their expression of indignation at the absence of a British squadron, as they consider, the presence of war vessels essential to their protection. „

The Times, referring to the action of EVahce in relation to the -New Hebrides, appeals to the French Government to avoid a repetition of the outrage* per« petrated by Admiral Pierre at Tamatave. , Edward Hanlan, of Toronto, the champion sculler of the world, is impatiently awaiting a reply to his challenge Co Elias Lay cock, of Sydney, offering to row him for £2000 on the Thames. The-preten-sions of Lr.ycock to compete withifanlau are generally ridiculed in England. [The negotiations, we- have since learnt by cable, have fallen through in consequence of Luycbck having fractured his leg.]