London, 14th May.
A despatch from the Cape of 26th April says that Lord Chelmsford and his staff were going to Utrecht.
Magneza, a brother of Cetewayo, has surrendered.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, stated that the Boers Camp had been broken up on the 18th April; and that the' Boers had dispersed quietly.
St. Petersburg, 18th May.
Numerous destructive fires have occurred in Eastern Russia, which are believed to be the act of incendiaries.
London, 18th May.
The diplomatic correspondence between England and Russia has been published, in which they came to an understanding as to the strict execution of the Treaty of Berlin relative to the administrative autonomy of Roumelia.
The minutes of the Municipal Council meeting, held on the 8th May, are given on another page. It is gratifying to learn that the revenue from dues on merchandize for the month of March, a report on which was submitted, showed an increase of Tls. 750, compared with the same month last year.—There is at length a certainty of the long-vexed question of the Margary Memorial site being removed from the list of matters pending. Letters on the subject are published in the same minutes, which have passed between Mr, W. B. Chalmers, the Hon. Secretary and Treasurer of the Margary Memorial Fund and Mr. R. F. Thorburn, on the part of the Municipal Council, from which it appears that permission has been given to erect the Memorial on a spot at the junction of the Bund and Soochow Road—which spot, by the by, was first applied for in August, 1877. Itis further stated that Mr. Cory, the architect of the Memorial, will at once commence the work of its erection.
It is only right that as much prominence as possible should be given to the mention of the accident which led to the non-participation by the crew of H.M, sloop of war Egeria in the reception of General Grant on Saturday. The British naval commander-in-chief, Admiral Coote, 0.B., desired that a detachment of fifty officers and seamen should be held in readiness to land in time for the General's official reception at the hour at first intended for the interesting ceremony to take place, viz., at five o'clock. The hour was afterwards somewhat suddenly changed to three o'clock, but Captain Douglas, the commander of the Eyeria, did not receive the express notifying the altered time until at too late a period for the men to get ready, the consequence being that they could not be sent on shore, a contretemps deplored by no one more than by Captain Douglas himself, who had issued the necessary orders for five o'clock.
It is gratifying to learn that so far the local subscriptions in response to the appeal made by the Chevalier C. de Boleslawski, Austro-Hungarian Consul, on behalf of the unfortunate inhabitants of Szegedin, have been pretty liberal, though there is margin for greater help yet. In a case of unlooked
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