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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 66, 21 March 1881, Page 2

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London, 10th March. It is rumored that Mr. Gladstone? is about to resign office' as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and that he will be succeeded by Mr. Childers, .jiow Secretary of fctate for War, while the Marquis of Hartington, Secretary for India, will succeed Mr. Childera as Secretary for War. Mr. Gladstone will continue to hold office as First Lord of the Treasury. Mr. Lowell, United Stateß Minister at London, has demanded the release of Bo j ton, arrested under the Coercion -Act, on the ground of his being an American citizen and claiming protection of the United States Government. Boyton has asked Mr. Lowell to request the American Government to interfere legally for the protection of the Irish. The members of the Irish Land League who have been arrested under the Coercion Act are well satisfied with the treatment they receive in gaol. They have been visited by Mr. Dillon, member for Tipperary. It is reported that his Honor Thomas W. Jackson, puisne judge on the Gold Coast, is dead. 14th March. The non-arrest of the leading members of the Irish Land League is much criticised. Fewer arrests are new being made in Ireland, and those made are chiefly for minor offences. A Conservative candidate has been elected to fill the vacancy which had occurred in the representation of Coventry in the House of Commons. Hitherto Coventry has returned two Liberals. Mr. Grant Duff, speaking at Oxford, said that the Liberals were in no w»y to blame for the disasters that had occurred to the British arms, and asserted that Lord Carnarvon, in consequence of his action when Secretary for the Colonies, was the real cause of the Transvaal difficulty. In the case Clark v. Bradlaugh, an action brought against the member for Northampton for illegally taking his seat in the House of Commons, judgment has been given for plaintiff in the main question. Since the decision Bradlangh has absented

himself from the House, and Gorst has given notice of his intention to move that a new writ be iisued for Northampton. Bradlaugh offers to resign his seat and seek re-election. In the divorce suit Farrel v. Powell, in which the petitioner sought to obtain divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery, the Court condemned the co-respondent, Capt. Powell, master of the Orient steamship Lusitania, to pay .£SOO damages. Messrs. Caird, Williamson & Co., East and West Indian and Cape merchants, of Fench-church-street, have failed.