ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2202, 17 March 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[bETJTEE’S TELEBEAMB.] LONDON, March 15. Home MarketsThree per Cent. Consols remain at 99J ; Now Zealand securities are unchanged; Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 49s 6J; New Zealand wheat, ex ship, 455; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 345; Australian tallow—boat beef, 32s Gel; best mutton, 40s 6d; best Australian sola leather has declined to 10-Jd. Wool in London. At the wool sale to-day 9500 halos were catalogued, making a total of 206,400 offered since the opening. There was a good demand. England’s Sympathy. In the House of Lords and the House of Commons to-day addresses were voted to tho Queen and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, expressing condolence with her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses in the death of the Emperor of Russia. Prospect of Peace BrightenedThe Right Hon. John Bright has addressed a letter to the press, in which ho says ho is very hopeful that peace may be secured in the Transvaal, and adds that ho will exert his utmost influence to bring about the same. Arrival of Home Mails. The Homeward Australian and New Zealand mails, vis Brindisi and via San Francisco, were delivered to-day. ST. PETERSBURG, March 15. Peccavi. Ronsakoff, the assassin of the late Emperor, has now made a full confession of his crime. Ex Nlhilo Nihil fitA Nihilist manifesto has been issued referring in terms of exultation to the success of Rousakoff’s attack. Several arrests of Nihilists, suspected of having been directly instrumental in tho issue of the manifesto, have been made. CAPE TOWN, March 15. John Bull Bo(e)red. Telegrams have been received from Natal to-day, announcing that 1000 Boors, of the Orange Free State, have loft the Transvaal to join in hostilities against tho British. Intelligence is also to hand from Natal that it has been arranged that a conference shall take place on the ISih between Sir Evelyn Wood, President Brand of the OrangeFroe States, and M. Kruger, President of (ho Transvaal Boer Republic, with the object of discussing the proposals for peace.