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Show NIGHT REPORT. FOREIGN. The "Alibm" CUlmi, London, 12. The World's ,-pecial fij ' the conflict of opinion in Englitnd on the Alabama claims question increases. A meeting will icon be held to oppose tho course of tho government nd demand de-mand a eettloment of the Al'thama claims, tho sum pid to the United States to bo subsequently recovered of the builders of the vessel which caused the damages. A party in parliament prepared to move for a resignation of the present ministry on the pronnd of its blundering blunder-ing incapacity, and the formation of a cabinet which shall propose a settlement settle-ment of tho American claims on anew basis. The Daily Xeirs asserts that public opinion iu Germany is trong in condemnation con-demnation of the cour.-o of the United States government in connection with tho Alabama claims. Gladstone in replying to a question in tho commons to-day, stated that the case of the American government submitted to tho Geneva board had not yet been presented and it would thcreforo be unjust un-just to publish the document here at present. London, 1:1. Prayers wero o tiered in all tho churches in Sheffield for the prevention pre-vention of war between England and tho United States. Americans In Consit It -at Ion. Tiiris, 12. C-Snlcb Gu-hiiip-, S. Bancroft, Ban-croft, .Davis, William M. Evarts aud M. It. VVaite, arrived in Pari?, and are in close consultation in regard to the business before tho Geneva board.. Assassination of Karl flInyo. London, 12. In tho house of lords this oveuitig the duke- of Argylo announced an-nounced that the government had received re-ceived official information of tho assassination assas-sination of the governor general of India, In-dia, Earl ilayo, and with several other lords pronounced eulogies on tho deceased. de-ceased. Iu the commons Gladstone stated that on the evening of tho bih i n st. , Eirl ilayo was stabbed by a Mahometan convict and soon after receiving the wound expired. Disraeli and others referred to the great public services of tho Earl in terms of the highest praise, and expressed tho regret which tho wholo country would feel at tho sudden ! death of so distinguished a statesman. I General Kctvi. The Austrian Prcsc thinks England fears to trust the Geneva arbitrators with tho consequences of her courso during tho American civil war. Eranco is negotiating with Germany for a new basis of settling the war indemnity. |