ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2201, 16 March 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[Reuter's telegrams.] LONDON, March 14. Home Markets. Consols arc unchanged at 99 J. New Zealand securities remain at the following quotations : —Five per. Cent. 10-40 Loan, 102 j ; Five per Cent. 1880 Loan, 110 i ; Four and a-half per Cent. 18791904 Loan, 97f-. Adelaide and New Zealand wheats are unchanged. Wool in DemandAt the wool eale to-day 8800 bale ß were catalogued. The tone of the eale was firm, and there was an active demand for the lots offered. Supply Bill not Urgent. In the House of Commons to-day a motion was introduced by the Government asking that the Supply Bill should be declared urgent. A lengthy debate ensued, in the course of which great opposition was shown on both sides of the House to the proposal, and the motion was finally negatived by a considerable majority. Crape at WindsorIt is officially announced that the English Court will go into mourning for one month for the late Czar of Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, March 14. The New CzarThe Czar, Alexander 111., has issued a manifesto upon his accession to the throne of Russia. His Majesty strongly denounces the murderous attack made on the Dynasty. The manifesto gives no outline of the future Imperial policy. The Assassin Reveals Nothing. The assassin of the late Emperor is named Ronsakoff, and is known to have been a student of the Russian Mining School. He remains quite silent in gaol, and refuses any information as to the motive which prompted his crime.