The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-05-02
GREAT BRITAIN.
MATTERS OF MOMENT IN ENGLAND
AND HER COLONIES,
Prevalence or small POx In LOndOn-An
AboFtiVe ElOpemsnI-PaFneII, Glad.
stone and Ihe LRad HIT King
CetsWRyO wFiIesItO queen Vie
IOria-NeWS Notes BY Cable.

LONDON, April SO.-It is possible tina
Thornton, Resident British Minister q
Washington, will succeed Duasrin at 81
Petersburg, and that Layard will succee,
Thornton at Washington.
The oaths bill will leave to persons oh
jsCtiDgt to take the oath full liberty to al
firm.
The death is announced oil Edwart
Mall, one Of the leaders OF the anti.Stat,
Church party, and editor and proprietor
OF the Non. COntormia newspaper.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice drovI
TO Hughenden Manor to-day to visit thl
tomb Of BsAcOnsllsld.
The Earl Of Shrewsbury elOped with
Mrs. Miller Mundy, Of Shlpley, Derby
shire. The fugitive pair fed TO StrasburH
where the lady's relatives overlook them
and gave the Earl Rsound lhEashing, and
brought the lady back to England.
Within the last twenty.sight days !, 500
cases OF small'pox have been refused ad
mission to the hospitals because they
were full. During the same period 297 per.
sons died IN their own homes from email.
pox..
There are now l,Ol4 cases OF small. pox
In the London Hospital, and only one bed
available. The epidemic has much iu.
creased In violence lattsrly. About ten
per cent Of the ca1es prove fatal. During
lhe past fortnight 1853 persons died In the
hospital from smallpox.
Referring to the fall In AnRlo.American
telegraph stocks, the Daily Telegraph says
An arrangement is negotiating by which
the new cable company shall mot compete
with existing cable companies. The 7sis
graph advocates lower rates as solution
Parnell will not speak on the Land Bill
In the House OF Commons until the Gnal
stsge Of the second reading OF the bill IL
reached, He will then indicate the course
be proposes to adopt In committee, but
will not oppose o second reading OF the
bill nor move any amendment.
GLADSTONE AND rHE LAND BILL.
Gladstone, replying TO the resolutions
sent him by Irish Catholic Archbishops
and BlGhops, conveying their views as to
the amendments oithe Land bill, says: ~
am GenFible oil the weight attaching to the
representations Of a body 90 intimately as.
soCiated with the people, and thankful for
their ackno owledgment ofthe honesty OF the
intentions with which the Land bill
was framed. l can assure them II
the bill Ia recognized, as It ap
pears to be, by the Iflsh people and
their representatives as valuable, The gov.
ernment will show no alackuess Ia put.
ting II forward until II becomes q law,
But | must frankly add, after reviewing
the numerous important changes advised
by the, Bishops, that the Government,
while they will welcome any amendment
tending 10 improve the bill, cannot hold
out any Expectation OF acCeding TO changes
which would give It q new character,
cErEwAYo AND TUE RoRRa.
King Oetewayo has addressed remark.
able letter to Queen Victoria respecting
affairs in South Africa. lie kindly asks
her 10 cheer up and not to be at all de.
Spondsnt in consequence Of the reyerses
which her forces have sustained at the
hands OF the turbulent and disloyal BoeIs,
He assures her that the Beers will soon
Tee and beg Tor peace, but adds that they
should bepunlshed for thoir fragrant and
unjustifiable disobedienCe 10 the Queen,
OeteTsHo expresses Burpries that the
British should asnd 90 few men 10 take
such strong positions, and make come
very sharp and pregnant criticism upon
The tactics Of the English generals. He
concludes hy sayingi "How can the
Beers. who are dogs, make head against
The superb torees Of your Royal High