ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2172, 10 February 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS.

[better's telegrams.] LONDON, February 7 Trade Returns.

The Board o£ Trade returns show the ' imports for the past month amount to i £2,675,000, a decrease of £562,500. The exports amount to £17,312,500, showing an increase of £375,000, also compared with the month of January in 1880. Distressing Fatality. A disastrous fire has broken out in a colliery at Tunstall, Staffordshire. Twenty colliers are entombed, and but little hope of rescuing them is entertained. Fresh Pastures. T. W. "Walsh, a Land Leaguer, one of the traversers in the recent prosecution at Dublin, has started for Australia. The Irish Question. In the Souse of Commons to-day the debate on the Irish Coercion Bill was resumed. The proceedings were in every respect orderly, and the debate is progressing satisfactorily. The Markets. Consols have declined to 98-J. New Zealand securities are unchanged. Adelaide wheat has fallen Is per quarter, and to-day is quoted at 495, ex warehouse. Flour, ex warehouse, remains at 345; and New Zealand wheat, ex ship, at 445. Australian tallow remains at 34s 6d for best beef, and 39s for best mutton. The Land Sill.

It is now announced that it is the intention of the Government that the Irish Land Bill should, if possible, become law before Faster, and every effort will be made to bring about this result. LONDON, February 8. The Ashantee Difficulty.

In view of possible hostilities with the Ashantees Her Majesty's corvette Champion, 14 guns, has been ordered to the Gold Coast, where she will organise a Naval Brigade for service in Ashantee. MADRID, February 8. Spanish.

A Ministerial crisis has occurred hero. and a new cabinet is being formed by Senor Sagasta. Marshal Campos will take the portfolio of Minister of War. CAPETOWN, February 8. The Boers.

News has been received from Natal that the Boers have stopped the mail between Sir George Colley's camp at Langsak and the head-quarters at Newcastle. All reinforcements from England and India have now arrived at Durban, Natal, and the troops will proceed without delay to the front.