LONDON.

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LONDON.

' TnUBSDAT. The 'Government art bringing thenrovisions of the Coercion Hill into active operation m Ireland, and. a number of arrests have been mide. 'The Government we.re ignorant of the proposal to grant an • armistice to the Boers m Transvaal, hut they approve of Sir Evelyn Wood's conduct m the matter. It is rumored that the . Hon Mr Gladstone i* about "to rengo office as Chancellor of the Exoheqner, and that he will he -succeeded byj tne-ftight HonT ffrC Ohilders, now Secretary of>Rta»e for War while the' Marquis of Harti ngton, Secretary for In J H*,{ wtH succeed: Child era ai Secretary Tori W^-ir, , Mr . • Gladstone will continue to hold office' as First Lord of the Treasnrv.j ' I, ■.'■'■ Mr liowell, United State* Minister at London, has. demanded the TeVjsase of Doyton, arrested; under the Coercion iAct, on the ground of his being an citizen and olainiing prbfcctio,nT. of _the United States "G( vernraent. •• - --- i i The merabers af.thb irUb liea-' eue 1 who -have been^arfißsled' -tinder' the Co^cion Act aro well satiHfied with the treatment tUey reQeiv« iv g«ql, They

havebeen visited by Mr Dillon, member j for Tipperary. Clotiire has been enforced m the House oP-Commoni with a view of expediting the passing of the Arms Bill. It is reported that his Honor Thomas W. Jackson, puisine judge on the Gold Coast, is dead. """Authority has been given by the Home Government to prolong the armistice at TransvaaUf it shouli be considered necessary. ' . .Boy ton has asked Lo«vell, the United States Minister at London, to request the American Government to interfere legally for the protection of the Irish. Plague of a virulent type has broken out at Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey.