ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2159, 26 January 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS.

[eeutee’s telegrams.] LONDON, January 24. The Markets-

Consols, 98f. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse,. 50s 6d; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 34s 6d. The markets for Australian wheat and tallow are Arm. The Irish Difficulty. In the House of Commons to-day, the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, asked leave to introduce a Bill empowering the Viceroy of Ireland to issue warrants for the arrest and detention of all persons suspected of treason, and to take steps to restrict the sale and possession of arms in any district. LONDON, January 25. The Irish Difficulty. A Bill for the adoption of coercive measures in Ireland was introduced by the Irish Secretary in the House of Commons to-day. The powers which it proposes to give to the Viceroy is to issue warrants for arrest and the detention of suspected persons ; also persons guilty ef treasonable conduct, and it will hold good till October 1882. Dr. Lyons, the member for Dublin, has given notice of an amendment on the measure requiring the Government to carry out reforms in Ireland before pur-

suing a policy of coercion. In course of his speech made in the House to-day, Sir Stafford Northcote, referring to the remarks made by the Secretary for Ireland in introducing this Bill, said that Mr Forster’s fact s were sadly convincing lof tlio necessity for immediate stringent '£npanb in regard to Ireland, is i.3?he trial of Leaguers at Dublin still Judge Fitzgerald finished bis pWtpniiipg-up to-day. The whole tenor of .•Jus' address is generally admitted to havo been strongly hostile to the accused Leaguers.

CAPETOWN, January 24. The War.

Nows has come to hand from Natal that the Governor, Sir Geo. Colley, has organised a force of 1000 strong to operate against the Boors, and has commenced his advance from Newcastle into the Transvaal.