ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2291, 5 August 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[beutbe’s teleqeams.l LONDON, August 3. The Scene in the House of Commons. Mr Bradlaugh, it has transpired, will> on Friday, apply to the Police Court for a summons against the police inspector for illegally removing him from the House of Commons. The MarketsConsols remain at 101-J-. Now Zealand securities have advanced per cent, all round, and are to-day quoted as follows : —Five per Cent., 10-40 Loan, 105; Five per Cent., 1889 Loan, 104|-; Four and a half per Cent., 1879-1904 Loan, 103 C Adelaide and New Zealand breadstuffs are unchanged at last quotations. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 48s; New Zealand wheat, ex ship, 48s 6d; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 34s 6d; Australian tallow —Best beef, remains at 34s 6d; heat mutton, at 3Gs; best Sydney copra has declined to £l3 10s per ton ; galvanised iron, £l6 10s.

CAPETOWN, August 3, The Transvaal Question.

Nows is to hand from Pretoria that, after the conclusion of the labors of the Royal Commission, Sir Hercules Robinson convened a meeting of the Native chiefs of the Transvaal. His Excellency explained to them at length the decisions arrived at by the Royal Commissioners and the Boer loaders for the future government of the Transvaal. The chiefs express themselves dissatisfied with the decisions, and threaten to resist the exercise of the Boer authority in the country. The Oaths Bill. It is announced that a Cabinet Council has been summoned for the special purpose of re-considering the Parliamentary oaths question. Under-Secretary for the Colonies-

Mr L. H. Courtney, M.P. for Liakeard, will succeed Mr M. E. Grant Duff aa Under-Secretary for the Colonies.