ENGLISH & FOREIGN

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2210, 26 March 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN

[reuiee’s TELEGRAMS.! LONDON, March 24. Commercial. There is little inquiry for best sides of Australian hides, and prices are an eighth of a penny lower. At the wool sales to-day 9000 hales were catalogued. The tone of the market continued firm. 21,000 bales have been withdrawn from the sales since the opening. Shall we Stay ? A motion similar to that recently passed by the House of Lords in favor of tho retention of the British force at Candahar is now being debated in th® House of Commons. The Policy of the Hew Czar. In the House of Commons to-day a question was put to tho Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with the object of ascertaining whether the Government were in possession of information as to the intentions of the Russian Government in regard to Central Asia. In reply Sir Charles Dilke stated that the Government had learned that one of the first acts of the Czar Alexander HI. had been to definitely recall General Skobeloff, and order the permanent cessation of hostilities against the Turcomans. To Come Home. It is announced that orders have been telegraphed from the Horse Guards to General Sir Frederick Roberts, at the Cape, instructing him to return to England without proceeding to the Transvaal, in accordance with the instructions issued to him on his departure from England. Arrival. Arrived—Waipa, from Port Chalmers.