ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1768, 20 October 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

G ABL E_N EWS. [BY SUBMARINE CABLE.]

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. THE EASTERN question. LONDON, October 18. Lord Salisbury has been banquotted at Manchester. In the course of bis speech he alluded to the fact that the Government placed confidence in the power of Turkey to restrain Russian aggression on its borders, but that if it were not sufficiently powerful, Austria would bo ready and able to do so, with the full concurrence of Germany. THE MARKETS, Currants have advanced from a shilling to three shillings. Brandy has advanced eighteen pence, owing to frosts in the Gironde. LONDON, October 16. THE AFGHAN WAR. A heavy fine, under martial law, will bo inflicted on Cabul and the citadel destroyed shortly. [BEIJTEE’S THLEGBAirS.] LONDON. October 15.

OJV/i.'IX/Vi.l, Vl/IUUDI JIU. The Ismyr is reported at Lloyd’s as missing. Tlio total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £19,500,000. CAPE NEWS. News from Cape Town states that Sir Garnet Wolseley bad interviewed a meeting of the Boers in the Transvaal, and announced the annexation of Lemwyr Snader(p). The Boers replied that independence alone would satisfy them. October 17. Best Australian beef tallow, 35s per cwt.; best Australian mutton tallow, 36s 6d per cwt. Large withdrawals of gold have taken place for Germany and North America. EVACUATION OF ZULULAND. The Capo war is completed successfully. The troops have commenced to evacuate the territory of Zululand. CALCUTTA, October 17. General Roberts has proclaimed the demolition of the fortress of Balabissar. MADRID, October 16, Heavy floods have taken place. The rivers overflowed, and caused enormous loss. 330 people are drowned.