ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2250, 14 May 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLENEWS.

FbEUTKE’S TELEGEA.M3.I LONDON, May 11. More FightingThe “ Standard ” to-day publishes a telegram from the Transvaal stating that the troubles between the Boers and Natives have culminated in open hostility, fighting of a severe character having taken place between them. Home Quotations. Consols are unchanged, at 102 J-. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £15,250,000. The Bank rate remains at and the market rate of discount at 2 per cent. Five per cent. Now Zealand 10-40 loan, 104 J; five per cent. New Zealand 1889 loan, 104, ex div.; four and a half per cent. New Zealand 1879-1904 loan, 101 i. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 4»7s ; New Zealand wheat, 445; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 335. Australian tallow—Best beef, 34s (id, and best mutton, 365, per cwt. May 12. 2Tr Bradlaugh Protests. Mr Bradlaugh has written a letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons, protesting against his expulsion, and declaring that the same is illegal. Mr Lawson has given notice in the House of Commons of a motion, sotting forth that the action of the Speaker in forbidding Mr Bradlaugh’s presence within the precincts of Parliament buildings is illegal. ST. PETERSBURG, May 12. Royalty v. NihilismThe Czar has issued a proclamation declaring his intention to maintain autocracy in Russia, and to use every endeavor to extirpate sedition from the country. PARIS, May 12. TunisianThe latest telegrams to hand report that the French troops are now only a few miles distant from the city of Tunis.