EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1411, 3 May 1886, Page 2

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

“Age” .■'Peciai.s. By telegraph via Bluff, 1 he Recidivists Question. Opposition of the North of Ireland to Home Rule. LOYALISTS AND PROTESTANTS ARMING IN READINESS. The Victorian Fruit Shipment. The Tennysonian Harp again Strung. The Greek Trouble. A Shipping Ring. London, April 19.

It is authorilively stated that the French Government have resolved not to send any further batches of recidiv ; stes to New Caledoui* for ihe preseut The statement that it was their intention shortly to send 1,000 convicts to New Caledonia is declared to be unfounded. April 20. Dr Moorhouse arrived in London yesterday. The proposals of Mr Gladstone for the establishment of an Irish Parliament are viewed with strong disfavour in the northern counties of Ireland, where much bitterness of feeling prevails in connect tion with the scheme. A movement has been started for raising a fund to be expended in furnishing Loyalists or Protestant Irishmen with equipment of war, so that they may be prepared for any eventuality.

April 21, Mr Gladstone has written a letter to the Quebec Assembly, ex, pressing his thanks for the action of that Chamber in passing a resolution approving of his Home Rule policy. Thejl shipment of Victorian fruits, consisting of apples, pears, and grapes, sent by the steamer John Elder, on sth March, has been unpacked and inspected The apples and pears were in good condition, but the bulk of the grapes were quite unfit for use. Lord Tennyson has written an inaugural ode to be delivered at the opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, News has be received of a hostile encounter between Greek and Turkish outposts on the frontier of Thesaally. The Turks were repulsed. The Government of Greece have repudiated the action of the Grecion commanders, who are held to be responsibls for the outbreak. April 23

The sending of the ultimatum from

the Great Powers to Greece has been delayed, owing to the Russian Government not having yet given their assent. Dr Moorhouse has been interviewed by a representative of the Pall Mall Gaxetta In the course of the interview Dr Mnoihouse spoke in eulogistic terms of the colony and people of-Victoria. Acting on instructions from the Sydney City Council, Sit Saul Samuel has accepted the tender of Hill and Sous, London, for the erection of an organ in the Centennial Hall, at a cost of H 2.950. The total coat, including freight, maintenance for twelve months, etc., will ba L 14.24). Hill and S. ns were builders of the organ in the Town Hall, Melbourne Right Hon J. Chamberlain, addressing hia constituents at Birmingham last evening, stated that whilst he w: - s opposed to the Irish land purchase scheme of Government, he would support a modified system of Home Rule, which should provide that a certain proportion of toe Irish representatives might continue to sit in the Imperial Commons, and that two Parliaments should he established in Ireltind'-one to represent the South, and

the other to alt in Ulster and represent the Protestant population. In connection with the land purchase sche-oe submitted by Government to the House of Cum* mons, it is provided that in cases where the Irish tenants of any estate refuse to tike advantage of the facilities proposed ro be given them for purchasing their farms, the State will assume ownership. The Valetta, which left London for Australia on Bth April, has gone aground in the Suez Canal. The cargo is being unloaded in order to lighten the vessel April 25.

Viscount Sherbrooke has announced that he is opposed to the Irish policy of the Gladstone Government. Gardiner and Co. have written a letter to the Times complaining of the system of boycotting practised by the English shipping ring against firms which ship cirgo to Australian ports on vessels of an oppositi m company. Gardiner re* marks that the maintenance of the high freight charges demanded hy members of the ring is a question of national concern, inasmuch as the effect of excessive charges must be to drive trade into the hands of monopolists. They, therefore, suggest that Parliament should interfere to prevent the ring from pursuing their present tactics.