BRITISH & FOREIGN

Daily Telegraph (Napier), 19 March 1883, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN

By Electric Teleguath.—Copyright. [Reuters Telegkams.] THE LONDON WOOL SALES.—GOOD DEMAND. DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COM- \ MONS ON THE TREATMENT OF THE TRANSVAAL NATIVES. J THE OUTRAGES IN LONDON.— REWARD OFFERED FOR THE ARREST OF THE GUILTY PARTIES. STRENGTHENING THE GUARDS AT THE MINISTERIAL OFFICES AND HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. FRENCH GOVERNMENT RELEASE WALSH FROM CUSTODY. COWARDLY ATTACK ON A LADY. SHERIDAN, THE IRISH AGITATOR, AND THE EXPLOSIONS IN LONDON. THE SOCIALIST AGITATION IN FRANCE. LONDON. March l'>. During - the present week the catalogues at the wool sales have aggregated -12,000 bales, of which (>OOO have been -withdrawn. A good demand has been experienced, and prices aye firmly maintained. The withdrawals from saio since the opening of the series amount to IS,OOO bales, out of a total of 23.3,000 catalogued. The second series of auctions commences on the lGthMay, and are expected to comprise 0>30,000 bales. March 17. In the House of Commons to-day a debate took place upon the policy of the Government in. regard to the treatment of the Transvaal natives by the Boers. Mr W. E. Forster strongly condemned the measures proposed to be taken with a view to put a stjjp to the oppressive action of the Boers.

Mr Gladstone made a lengthy defence of the Government policy, and the debate was then adjourned until after the Easter recess. No clue has yet boon obtained to the actual perpetrators of the outrages at the offices of the Local Government Board and London Times. A reward of .£IOOO is offered for information leading to the arrest of the guilty parties. In case of an explosion in Whitehall the military guards at the various Ministerial offices and at the Houses of Parliament have been doubled, and all necessary precautions are being taken to prevent further outrages. Intelligence is to hand that John Walsh, who was arrested at Havre, in France, cm the 2nd instant on the charge of complicity in the Irish assassinations, has been released from custody. At the wool sales yesterday and to-day 23,-100 bales were catalogued. A firm tone was experienced on both days. March IS. A determined attack was made upon Lady Florence Dixie last evening at Windsor by two men disguised as women. They were armed with daggers, but her Ladyship escaped without injury, as her assailants made off as soon as she raised an alarm. The attack is believed to have been made in consequence of the articles which Lady Dixie has written condemning Irish outrages. Mr Sheridan, the Irish agitator who is now in America, has publicly stated that the explosions which have occurred here are only the forerunners of others.