LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3090, 23 May 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

May 9. Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, has expressed his disapproval of the meetings of the Irish Land League.

Mr John Bright, speaking on the Irish land question, argued that the Irish laborer was better off than the English laborer. He went on to say that the only hope of Ireland was the development of her industries which he thought might be stimulated by a judicious application of water power. A marriage has been celebrated between the Archduke Rudolph, the Crown Prince of Austria, and the Princess Stephane Clotilde, a daughter of the King of the Belgians. Owing to the hostile attitude shown by the native inhabitants of the Transvaal towards the Dutch Boers, the latter are preparing for war. Mr Parnell and the Home Rule party persist in their policy of opposition to the Irish Land Bill. The Kroumers have evacuated and the French occupied Sibi Obadallah in Tunis. The campaign is then virtually ended. In the House of Commons Mr Grant

Duff, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, relying ' j a question put by Mr Su?nmprs, the member for Stoolsbridge, said ijat vhen the atlentiou of the Colonial Office bad been directed to outrages by whites iv the South Pacific the Secretary of State for the Coloiies had asked for information from the missionary societies. Mr Duff added that the missionaries should report all outrages within their knowledge to the' Naval authorities on the Australian station or to the High Commissioner for the Pacific.

The Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State foi India, will probably accept the suggestion, providing the Victorian Government agree to it, that the Melbourne mails should close on Monday night, and the steamers start at daybreak on Tuesday, although the Indian mails will thereby be thrown back twelve hours. May 11. The Christian population of Korilscha, in Macedonia, have rebelled, and an engagement has taken place between the insurgents and the Turke, in which the latter were defeated.

William Anderson Ogg, an Australian merchant, of the firm of Prince, Ogg and Co., has been chosen'Sberiff of London. May 12.

The French threaten to occupy Tunis directly and Turkish vessels appear at La Goleto Porte, the capital. The Bey of Tunis has telegraphed to Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary of State, that the position is critical, and asks England and the other European powers to interfere and compel France to declare her intentions.

Her Majesty has held a review of troops at the camp at Aldershot. There was a large muster, and Her Majesty was received by Sir Daniel Lyson, the general in command at the camp, who was attended by a brilliant staff.

An election has taken place for Knaresboro', Yorkshire, the seat for which has been vacant since July, 1880, when Sir Henry Thompson, who was elected in the Liberal interest, was unseated on petition. The election has resulted in favor of the Conservative candidate. Hefferman, a prominent member of the Land League in Cork, and four others, have been arrested and lodged in gaol. Further agrarian outrages are reported in Ireland, and Lord Dunally's bailiff has been shot. The Mohsud military expedition under General Kennedy, which was sent to punish the Waziris, hill tribes in Northern India, is returning.

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