ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1585, 19 March 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE.

London, March 18. Wheat is quiet and easy. Tin, firm and hardening. RIOTS IN BELFAST.

At Belfast, on St. Patrick's Day, there were great riots. The police and military had to be called in.

London, March 18. THE HOME RULERS.

In the House of Commons the Home Rulers obstructed the passing of the Army Estimates.

[beuteb's telegeams.]

London, March 17.

THE FLOODS IN HUNGARY.

Two thousand lires hare been lost by floods at Szegedin Hungary. London, March 17.

A commission has been appointed by the Swiss Federal Government to represent Switzerland at the Melbourne Exhibition. London, March 17. THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT AND THE ZULU WAR.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has fixed the debate in the House of Commons on the Zulu war to take place on Marob 27th.

Lord Blackford has given notice in tho Houee of Lords of a resolution condemning

the Zulu war.

London, March 17. The January mirls, via San Francisco, were delivered here to-day.

[special to globe.] NEWS BY THE TORRES MAIL.

Sydney, March 19; TREASON IN GERMAMY.

Treason has discovered in high German circles. Important army secrete hare been betrayed.

Sydney, March 19. Belgium has declined to withdraw the duty on English iron.

There are to be sweeping American army

The New Guinea coast is unsettled. Messrs Irons and Wills, tradors, were murdered at Cloudy Bay. The natives found Irons il with fever on the beach, and speared and decapitated him, and kiUed W ;il i while cooking. The victims were then eaten by the nativei A Chinese 'junk was attacked : three natives were killed and a chief wounded.