ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2256, 25 June 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[ K X 'UTEe’s telegrams.] LONDON, Juno 23. Xi.’ackbirding'. In the House o£ Commons to-day tho Right Hem. M. - E - Grant Duff, "Under Secretary of State? for th e Colonies, in reply to a question!/ promised that tho Government would tafo? ’ consideration the question of taking stops to bring about an agreement betW!V 111 the Powers in order to counteract fcah. na PP* n S an( l slavery in the Pacific. The Markets Consols are unchanged at lUsi, •_ The total reserve in notes and bulfion a the Bank of England is £16,400,600, The Bank rate of discount is 21 per eft. 0., and the market rate If. Now Zealand Five per Cent. 10-40 Loan, 105 ; New Zealand Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 105 ; Now Zealand 1879-1904 Loan, 103. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 49s 6d ; New Zealand wheat, 45s 6d; Adelaide flour, ox warehouse, 345; Australian tallow —Best beef, per cwt., 34s 6d; best mutton, 36s 6d. For Australian leather prices are firm, especially for heavy kips, and quotations are generally i d to ] d higher. At the wool auction to-day, 9500 bales were catalogued. A firm and active demand was again experienced. The withdrawals of wool to date amount to 15,000 bales. Loyal Boers.

Communications having been made to the British Government by the Boers who remained loyal during the recent war asking for some compensation in consequence of the withdrawal of British rule from the Transvaal, the Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone has addressed a letter in reply in which he states that the Government do not consider that the petitioners are entitled to an indemnification under the circumstances named. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 23. Bulgarian Atrocities. Telegrams are to hand to-day reporting that three Liberal deputies of the Bulgarian National Assembly have been murdered at Sofia. Much disorder and agitation continues to prevail in the Principality. ROME, June 23. Political Jealousy. Great "excitement prevails throughout the country in consequence of the riots which occured at Marseilles on the 17th and' 18th instants, and the numerous arrests of Italian subjects that have since been made by order of the French Government. Anti-French meetings are being held in several Italian towns to express indignation with the action of the French.

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