LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3013, 21 February 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

February 18. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,200,000 quarters.

Adelaide flour, ex-warehouse, is quoted at 333; New Zealand wheat, ex-ship, 445. Five per cent 10-40 loan, is quoted at 105, and the five per cent New Zealand 1889 loan, at 110.

At the wool sale to-day 10,500 bales were catalogued. The tone of the sale was firm.

February 19. Consols are,unchanged at 99}. At ibe wool auction to-day 6700 bales were offered, and there was a good demand. The Orient Company's steamship Lusitana left Plymouth yesterday for Australia. Laycock, the Australian sculler, is a passenger by her for Sydney. The fears of a Fenian attempt to blow up the castle having been dispelled, Her Majesty the Queen has now returned to Windsor.

Mr Parnell has returned to London from Paris, and has resumed his attendance at the House of Commons.

The Speaker of the House of Commons has somewhat modified the rules which he has lately 'made for the repression of disorder in the House.

Several Home Rulers have seceeded from Mr Parnell's leadership because of his action in "coquetting" with Communists during his recent visit to Paris.

In reference to the recently published papers regarding the discoveries made by General Roberts in Cabul, it is now officially announced that the Russian Government has explained to England that General Stoliettoff prolonged his intrigues in Afghanistan because he was ignorant of the fact that the Berlin treaty had been signed by the Powers. It is further stated by the Russian Government that the Ameer Shere Ali proposed an offensive and defensive treaty of alliance, but that the proposal was rejected by the Russian General.

It is now further announced in connection with the explanation made by the Russian Government regarding the papers discovered by General Roberts at Cabul, that the Czar had ordered General KaufFmann not to correspond even in a formal manner with the Ameer Shere Ali.