ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2035, 1 September 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS

[eeuteb’s telegrams.] LONDON, August 30. The Mails. The homeward mails via San Francisco, which left Auckland on July 20th, were delivered to-day. The Irish Constabulary. In the House of Commons to-day the adjourned debate in Committee on the Irish Constabulary vote was resumed. A further discussion took place, but the Irish members abandoned the obstruction policy which they had pursued on Friday night. Mr Parnell made a speech, in the course of which he promised to use his influence to prevent outrages in Ireland, and to insure order in that country. The vote for the constabulary was then passed, and the Committee proceeded with the other estimates. The Bounty System.' In the House of Lords to-day, Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, presented papers relating to a Bill which has been introduced in the French Chambers, providing for the payment of heavy bounties to French shippers. His Lordship, in laying the papers on the table of the House, said that the proposed bounties were contrary to the spirit of the existing Anglo-

French commercial treaty, and would operate injuriously on English trade. The Harvest.

Harvest operations in England are now nearly completed. Tho total yield will amount to 11,500,000 quarters. Wool Sales. At the wool sales to-day 7,400 hales were offered, making a total of 104,100 bales catalogued since the opening. The tono of tho sale showed a better demand. AppointmentLord Enfield has been appointed Under-Secretary for India. The Montenegrin FrontierIn the House of Lords to-day, Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, said that the Great Powers were discontented at the Porte’s answer regarding Montenegro, and were now deliberating on their reply. He further stated that orders had been given for warships to proceed to Ragnsa. Hares and Rabbits Bill. In the House of Lords the Hares and Rabbits Bill was read a second time by a majority of 48. The Australian Eleven. The match Australians v. 18 of Hastings, at Hastings, was continued to-day. The home team went in first, and were and were all disposed of for 245 runs. Spofforth and Bannerman were absent. PARIS, August 30. Expulsion of Jesuits. All tbo Jesuits’ schools and their other establishments in Prance have now been closed, in accordance with the decrees of the French Chambers. The schools had been evacuated by the inmates prior to their being visited by tbe police for their formal closing. CALCUTTA, August 30. Tbe Afghan War. Further intelligence received states that General Phayre’s army is now marching combinedly with that of General Robert’s on Ayoub Khan’s positional Argandah ot the north of Candahar. It now transpires that the Pathan tribes, which have been disarmed by the British force, consisted of the inhabitantsof the country to the north-west of Knrrachee, in Scinde, which place they were threatening, not Kachmadan.