Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-18

LONDON, March 17.-At midnight the
policemen on duty at the Mansion House
observed fire on the ground near the rear
wall Of the Lord Mayors official residence,
and found q wooden box with fuse, con-
nected to which some lighted paper had
been recently applied. The officer extin-
guished the fire and took the box to the
police station, where II was found to con-
tain about forty pounds or gunpowder
with a fuse in the midst of 1t. No arrests
have been made, nor has any clue to the
perpetrators thus far been discovered.
The official police report regarding the
ATTEMPT to explode the box Of guupowder
at the Mansion House at midnight says the
policeman found the box in . recess of the
window facing the end of George street
under the Lord Mayors private apartment.
The brown paper in which the box
was wrapped was smouldering. The
box contained fifteen pounds of coarse
gunpowder, with fuse through hole in
the box, and the end Of the fuse was close
to the smouldering paper. An explosion
would have occurred very soon but for the
discovery. At q meeting of the Common
/ Council to-day the Lord Mayor con-
firmed the above report, and said
the explosion would probably not
have injured the Mansion House, but would
have damaged Egyptian Hall and the ada
cent private houses, and entalled serious
loss OF life. He, himself, he said, was not
at home at the time. One account says an
Irish newspaper was found amongst the
packages of powder.
All the special dispatches state that Gen.
Sir Evelyn Wood has informed the news
paper correspondents that at yesterdays
prolonged meeting, at which all members OF
the Beers Triumvirate were present, the
terms of the British Government were to 5
great extent accepted, the Beers reserving
one or two points for future consideration
in day or two.
The Daily Telegraph says concessions were
made on both sides. Il is stated that the
B ers desire to be more directly represented
on the proposed commission, and they OBJ
iect to the troops remaining in the country.
Mr. A. NJ. Sullivan has written long le'-
ter in answer to the Lenten pastoral OF Arch
bishop McCabe, of Dublin. He repadiatef
the imputation that tde ladies have put
aside their modesty, and accuses the Arch
bishop of insulting some of the most ex.
emplary devotees of the church. Mr.. Sull.-
van maintains that the objects Of the La
dies Land League are purely charitable.
Archbishop Croke, of Cashel has written
to Mr. A. Nj. Sullivan, congratulating him
on his reply to the Lenten pastoral Of Arch.
bishop McCabe, of Dublin. Archbishop
Croke says he unreservedly adopts Mr.. Sui
livan's sentiments against Archbishop Nc
Cabe's monstrous imputation.
In the House of Lords to-day the arms
bill was passed In committee.
In the House OF Commons this afternoon
Mr.. Gladstone, replying to Sir Stafford
Northcote, said an arrangement had not yet
been made between Sir Evelyn Wood an6
the Boer leaders, but the negotiations fol
such an arrangement were progressing. i
is not, he said, in the interest of the public
service to give any information as yet.
| Great precautions have been taken 70,
| the safety of the houses of Parliament
since the discovery of the plot to blow VI
the Mansion House. The police in anC
around the buildings have been reinforced
and cellars examined.
There was disturbance among the Irisl
soldiers in the camp at Aldershot to-day
and many arrests were made.
A Cabinet council was hastily summoned
| to day. The meeting is believed to be ii
connection with the Transyaal negotiations
| In the House of Commons, in committe
on supply, last night d vote for 134 ,C60 mel
| for the army during the forthcoming yea
was agreed to.
DUBLIN, March 1.-Two hundred prison
ers have been lodged in Kilmain Hall jail