BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Dunstan Times, Issue 1049, 26 May 1882, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

In the cricket match between the Australians and a Sussex eleven, at Brighton, the former have c nclnded their first innings for a total of 043, the latter in their second innings scored 193 runs. The Australians thus won the match by one innings and 355 runs. Palmer and Garrett bowled splendidly for the Australians.

The Times in a leading article hails the Australian Cricketers to England, and says that their success should stimulate the Englishmen to improve their play.

The offer of Mr W. E. Forster to resume the Secretaryship of Ireland was declined by the Government. A frofound sensation has been created

throughout the country by the exposure in the House of Commons on May 16 of Mr Parnell’s offer to the Government to stop the outrages and to support the Liberal party on the conditions that the imprisoned suspects should he immediately released, and that a measure providing for the surrender of arrears of rent should bo introduced into Parliament by the Government Mr Gladstone denied that such a bargain had been made, but Mr Forjtef read the letters which had passed between the alleged contracting parties. Mr Parnell’s offer to stop the outrages is held to make the Irish organisation with which he has been prominently connected largely responsible for the agrarian outrages which for so long a time have been frequent in Ireland. The director of the Ring Theatre (Herr Janner) and two subordinates (workmen) have been convicted at Vienna for criminal carelessness in connection with the burning of the Ring Theatre, and were sentenced—the former to four, and the latter to eight months’ imprisonment. The other defenfendants implicated in the calamity were acquitted.

Michael|Davitt, whojwas recently released

■ ticket-of-leave, addressed a meeting of the agents of the Land League at Chester on May 22, and in the course of his speech a vacated the complete abolition of the lan llords in Ireland, and urged active steps towards that and. The British Government have declined to allow Cetewayo, the ex-King of Zululand, who is now confined in Cape Town, to revisit his country. The railway through the St. Gothard tunnel was opened at Berne, on May 22, with considerable ceremony.

The Australian cricketers commenced a match against an Eleven of the Orleans Club at Twickenham. The weather was fine, but very hot. A capital wicket was pitched, and the ground was in good order. Tlurejw is a very large attendance of spectators, by whom the greatest possible interest was taken in the match. The Orleans Club went in first, and succeeded in putting together for their first innings a total of 271, when the stumps were drawn for the day.