ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2169, 7 February 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLE_NEWS.

[EEtrTEE’3 TELEGRAMS.] LONDON, February 3. Bank Reserve. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £14,125,000. Wool Sales. The next series of wool sales opens on the 15 th inst. The arrivals to date for the auction amount to 190,000 bales, the total probable quantity to be offered amounting to 300,000 bales. February 4. The Obstructionists. The expulsion of Mr Parnell and his followers from the House of Commons last night was proposed by Mr Gladstone, who moved that their expulsion, and nothing less, would suffice to restore order. The motion was carried, and the Speaker gave orders that the obstructors should be expelled. An unexampled scene of tumult and disorder ensued. Many members, who were ordered to retire, resisted the officers of the House. Mr Gillon opposed them violently, and was forcibly expelled. Finally all the obstructors left the Chamber, and order was restored. Michael Davitt, who recently returned from America, where he had established branches of the Land League, has been arrested in Ireland for sedition. Shortly after the Irish obstructors had been expelled, the House discussed Mr Gladstone’s resolution that a majority of three-fourths voting for the passage of a motion of <£ urgency” should suffice to give the Speaker supreme control. The motion was slightly modified and adopted. The Coercion Bill was then declared “ urgent” in order that the Speaker should have full power to put down any obstruction to its discussion, and the debate was resumed. The House is still sitting. Mr Parnell has issued a manifesto, in which ho urges his followers to act with calmness, and promises to renew the fight against the Coercion Bill in Parliament. The Coercion Bill. The sitting of the House of Commons was closed this afternoon, the debate on the Irish Coercion Bill being further postponed. The proceedings after the expulsion of the Irish obstructionists were of an orderly character. The Markets. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,490,000 quarters Australian tallow—beat beef, 34s 6d; beat mutton, 395. Four and a Half per

Cent. New Zealand Loan is to-day quoted at 96£ ox div. The Ashantees-

The “ Daily News ” publishes a telegram stating that the Ashantees threaten to make war against the settlers and natives in the British colony of Sierre Leone, on the west coast of Africa. Telegrams farther state that in consequence of the attitude of the Ashantees, detachments of the Ist West India Regiment, stationed at Freetown, have been ordered to proceed to Bonder to oppose any attack, LONDON, February 5. The Fenian Davitt-

It Las been decided by tbe authorities that Michael Davitt, the League agitator, who was arrested yesterday, shall complete the term of penal servitude to which he was sentenced some time ago.