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LOOKING BETTER.
The Ozar Assures Gladstone That he Earn
estly Hopes Prompt Arrangements
Will be Made
BY which the Present Threatening Aspect
of Anairs May be Overcome and
an Amicabie Adjustment
Arrived At.

AFFAIRS LOOKING BETTER.
LONDON. April 17.-Baron De Staal, the
Russian Ambassador, yesterday received a
dispatch from the Car. in which his Royai
Highness instructs the Baron to assure Mr..
Gladstone and the members Of the English
Cabinet. that he earnestly hopes that a
prompt and simple arrangement will be
entered into, by which the present threat
ening aspect of affairs may be overcome
and an amicable adjustment reached of all
questions in dispute.
Immediately on the receipt of the dispatch,
the Russian Minister hastened to Mr.. Glad
stones office and informed him of its con-
the Baron to wire the Gar the hearty ac-
ceptance by him and his colleagues of the
Car kindly and peaceful message. and to
assure his Imperial Highness that England.
on her part. would put forward every effort
consistent with her dignity and rights to
effect peaceful settlement of the difference
between the two countries.
In the House of Commons yesterday
afternoon Mr.. Gladstone in reply to qiies-
ton. denied the authority of the telegram
from Vienna. published by the Daily Tele-
graph. containing the statement THAT IN
the Cars opinion, war would be deplora-
ble." He said no such communication had
been submitted to him by Baron De Staal,
and therefore that the reports of communi-
cation from the Gar and favorable replies
thereto were unfounded. Mr.. Gladstone
further stated that the assertion that
Penjdeh had been ceded to Russia was en-
tirely unauthorized.
This announcement was received by the
whole House with vOlley of hOotfngs and
jeers. and great confusion reigned for some
moments. When quiet was restored. Mr..
Gladstone. upon being questioned, refused
to further enlighten the House upon the
present state of the diplomatic controversy.
In both diplomatic and financial circles a
great deal of significance is attached to the
fact that Baron De Staal dined with Baron
ROthschild on Wednesday. The inference
is that Russia wishes to make war loan
and that Baron DE Staal was the bearer of
an important financial proposition from the
Car himself.
Dispatches from ST. Petersburg say the
latest advices received from General koma-
rolf by the Russian War Office. contain the
information that after the fight of March
80, on the Kushk River. the Afghans evac-
uated Penjdeh and fled in the direction of
Herat and that he had since been compelled
to occupy Penjdeh in order to prevent the
place from falling into the hands of Anarch-
lists. who had already begun to make incur
sions and had located and burned portions
of the city.
NJ. Lessar, the special envoy of the Car,
was called on by Central News cones
pOndent yesterday and asked what he
thought now of the prospects for peace He
said matters had improved greatly during
the past forty-eight hours, and that the out
look was brighter. But" said he, ''what
England and Russia may agree to in regard
to the Afghan boundary, may not please the
Ameer, and serious complications may yet
arise The question of the cessiOn of
Penjdeh is not settled as yet Certain de-
mands made by England which she insists
upon must be satisfied before she will con-
sent to the cesson of Penjdeh, may not be
viewed by favorable light by my Govern
ment Still, can frankly say that negOtia-
tiOns are proceeding favorably."
PARIS, April 17.-Admiral Courbet is
urging the Government to annex the Pesca-
dores group of islands, sometimes called the
Fishers Islands, lying between the island
of FormOsa and the main land of China.
He is strongly convinced or the value of
these islands for naval strategic purposes.
NJ. Clamageran, Minister of Finance in
the newly-created Brisson Cabinet has re-
signed Ill-health is officially stated as the
reason for his retirement, but it is under
stood that the real cause was that his col
lea saes did not agree with him as to the
necessity of an additional war loan.
A tragedy which is likely to take a prom
inent place in the long list of sensational
crimes in the French capital was brought 10
light Yesterday morning. The wife of a
wealthy cotton manufacturer has lived alone
in a suburb of this city for over year,
while her husband was absent in Pond
icheiry, the capital of the French settle
ments i'm India, where he manages cotton
mill emp Dying upwards of 5000 hands.
Fabulous stories were told of this gentle
mans wealth and his wife was supposed to
be the custodian of great part of his
fortune. Her only companions in the house
were maid and man servant. Yesterday
morning the girl discovered the body of her
mistress lying on the floor, clothed only in a
night dress. The head had been completely
severed from the body by knife or hatchet
and there were number of terrible stabs in
various parts of the body, through some of
which the intestines protruded.
1t is believed that the wOman's head was
cut off after she had been stabbed, the muir
1erer desiring to make dOubly sure that his
work was fatal. There is little doubt that
The man servant committed the bloody deed.
as he had disappeared from the house. The
police have not yet obtained any clue to his
whereabouts. Robbery was undoubtedly the
motive for the crime.