COLONIAL INTERESTS IN HOUSE OF LORDS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3733, 3 July 1883, Page 2

COLONIAL INTERESTS IN HOUSE OF LORDS.

THE ANAM DIFFICULTY,

NOMINATION OF MR REDMOND FOR THE WEXFORD VACANCY.

PRICES FOR AUSTRALIAN HOPS

LOW,

PROPOSED NEW LINE OF AUSTRA-

LIAN MAIL STEAMERS.

THE WAR IN MADAGASCAR,

INFLAMMATORY NIHILIST MANI-

FESTO

CONSTRUCTION OF SECOND SUEZ CANAL TO BE COMMENCED AT ONCE.

REPORTED FRENCH DESCENT

UPON MAURITIUS,

FRENCH IMMIGRATION FOR SOUTH

AUSTRALIA.

HALF OF WOOL SOLD AT LAST SALES BOUGHT BY FOREIGNERS.

ARCHBISHOP CROKE IGNORES POPE'S MANDATE.

FUNDS OF IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE USED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

THE QUEEN SUBSCRIBES TOWARDS RELIEF OF SUFFERERS BY THE SUNDERLAND PANIC.

LONDON,

June 20.) A notice of motion given by Lord Leamington on Thursday last in connection with tho proposed annexation of the Islands of the Pacific will be discussed in the House of Lords on tho 2nd July. Lord Sidmouth, in the House of Lords, has given notice of his intention to bring before the House the question of the naval defences of the various colonies. The mattor will be discussed shortly. China has definitely refused to cede the suzerainty of Anara to the French, and the latter havo rejected all other pacific overtures. The Chinese Government are urging England and Germany to intercede on their behalf, but neither of these Powers have yet given any definite response to the appeal. It is reported that Mr Redmond, who is now on a lecturing tour in Australia -with his brother, has been nominated as a candidate for Wexford in place of Mr Healy, > who recently resigned his seat. The Cabinet has not yet deoided upon whom the appointment of Minister for Scotland shall be conferred, and tho settlement of the matter has been postponed. The Pope has resolved to refer the settle- _, ment of the difficulty which has arisen between the Papal Sco and a section of the Irish to a special commission. In consequence of tho announcement that Mr William Redmond intends offering himself as a candidate for Wexford, tho Government have decided to enforce tho warrant wliich has been for some time pending against him. The prices offering for Australian hops arc low in consequence of the good prospeefs of the growing English crop, and several shipments remain in the market unsold. A letter appears in tho Daily News this morning strongly urging the establishment of a new line of Australian mail gteamors. The route proposed by the writer is from Liverpool to Canada direct, thence overland to the "West Coast of America, and from thcro to S3'dney. Acting under instructions from the French Government, Admiral Pierce ha« ordered the confiscation of the Custom House and its contents which wero seized hy the French troops at Tamatave. The Governor of Reunion, or the Island Bourbon, iv tho Indian Ocean, has despatched a forco of volunteers to Madagascar to the assistance of the Fronch troops. Great alarm has been occasioned at St. Petersburg by the publication of an inflammatory Nihilist manifesto. In this the .' authors state that they still retain their - A hostile designs towards tho ruling powers, and are only awaiting an opportunity to put them into execution.

In the House of Commons last night Sir Michael Hicks-Beach directed the attention of the House to the negotiations which were proceeding in connection with the proposed duplication of the Suez canal. He urged upon the Government tho expediency of accepting the terms offered by Count Lesseps, The Standard this morning states that the operations connected with the construction of the second canal will be commenced at once. In consequence of the rumor that the French intend to mako a sudden descent upon Mauritius tho English Government authorities at Mauritius aro actively ongaged in preparations for resisting the attack.

The committee appointed to report upon tho desirability of constructing a tunnel under the English Channel have concluded taking evidence. Yesterday Lord. Wolseley was examined, and gave it as his opinion that the scheme, if carried out, would jeopardise the interests of England. Ho expressed himself as entirely opposed to the proposition. The members of the committee held a lengthy deliberation, but wero unable to como to. any conclusion, the votes being equally divided. It has been ascertained that the cause ot Bishop Colenso's death was fever. Mrßlyth, the Agent-General of South Australia, intends to visit Marseilles shortly for the purpose of organising a scheme for the immigration of laborers from that portion of France to South Australia by the Messageries Maritimes Company's steamers. Mr Cotton, M.P. for London, urges upon the Government tho necessity for instituting an inqnry into the circumstances connected with the supposed murder of a Government surveyor and party at Bermagin some years

JtcO. °A trial was made yesterday of the Palliser projectile, but the invention was proved to be a failure. It has been ascertained that, at the wool sales which have just terminated, half of the wool sold was purchased by foreigners. Dr. Croke, Archbishop of Cashel, continues to ignore the mandates of the Pope in connection with the suppression of Irish outrages. In an address recently delivered at Limerick he emphatically _ declared that the agitation must be continued till the Irish obtained complete redress of their grievances. Mr Hcaley, who recently resigned his seat in the House of Commons for Wexford, is offering himself as a candidate for Monoghan, the seat for which electorate was vacated by Mr Gavan on his being appointed Crown Solicitor for Ireland. Tho Irish National League is actively supporting Mr Healey's candidature, and it has transpired that'the funds of the League are being freely used to secure his election. Tho Queen has subscribed £50 towards the fund being raised for the relief of the sufferers by the late panic in Victoria Hall, Sunderland. The Malagasy envoys having concluded their negotiations with M. Ferry, the French Premier, have left Paris. The French Government accorded them a safe conduct back to Tamatave. The result of their mission has not transpired, but it is bclioved that a peaceable solution of tlm difficulty between Franco and Madagascar will bo effected. I

The present attitude of China relative to the Anamese war is peaceful. The Marquis Tsing, the Chinese Ambassador at Paris, who recently waited upon M. Ferry with a view to tho settlement of the Anamese epiestion, has arrived in London.

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