ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2179, 18 February 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS,

[eeutee’s TELEGEAMS.] LONDON, February 15. The Markets. The market rate of discount has been reduced to 3 per cent.; the Bank rate remains at 3|- per cent. Best Australian leather is quoted at ll£d. Wool. Tho opening catalogue at tho wool sale to-day comprised 2100 hales. There was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers, and tho demand was fair, but prices were, as compared with the closing rates of last sales, fully one halfpenny lower for greasy and one penny lower for scoured wools. The total arrivals for tho auction amount to 310,000 bales, and the probable quantity to ho offered is 300,000. February 16. FenianismStephens, the former Fenian head centre, is now at Paris. The Irish DifficultyIn the House of Commons last night, tho Home Secretary, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, in reply to a question, made a statement, in the course of which he virtually admitted that letters suspected to contain treasonable correspondence had been opened in transit through tho post. The statement gave rise to a lengthy discussion in the House, and the press generally refer to the matter at length in their leading articles, various opinions being expressed as lo the action of the Government. Religious Differences. News has been received from Beyrout, in Syria, that troubles have arisen between the Christians and Turks, and several conflicts have taken place, resulting in loss of life to both sides. Mr Parnell. Mr Parnell has addressed a letter to the League at Dublin, in which he urges the members to maintain a passive attitude of resistance to tho coercive measures proposed to he adopted by the Government in Ireland, and moreover to use every means to foster the agrarian agitation of the masses, not only in Ireland but throughout Great Britain. The Cape WarThe “ Daily News,” of to-day, publishes a paragraph stating that the Government has received telegrams from Sir George Colley containing proposals for peace by the Boers. The “Daily News ” adds that the proposals are now being discussed in the Cabinet. Mr Parnell. The belief which existed that Mr Parnell had gone to Paris is now confirmed. He has been in that city for the past week, and has visited Rochefort and Victor Hugo, and had lengthy interviews with each of them. BERLIN, February 15. Peace Desired. The German parliament was opened to-day by the Emperor, who, in. his speech on the occasion, strongly affirmed the fact that a general agreement exists among the Groat Powers to use every possible effort for the maintainance of European peace. CAPETOWN, February 16. The Cape WarNews comes to hand from Natal that the telegraph wires between Newcastle and Durban have been cut by the Boers in several places. No communication, therefore, has lately been received from Sir George Colley at Ingogo. ' NEW YORK, February 16. A number of Dutch Americans residing here and in other parts of the States are agitating with a view to send assistance to the Boers in their efforts to obtain their independence in tho Transvaal.