ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2361, 27 October 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABIiE_NEWS.

[ektjteb's telegrams.] LONDON, October 25. A Landlord's LeagueA movement on tho part of the landlords in Ireland is now on foot to take combined action for their mutual protection against the working of the Land League. The Markets. Consols have advanced Is Bd, and are quoted to-day at 99g-. New Zealand securities are firm at the following quotations : —Five per Cent. 10.40 Loan, 100 i; Five por Cent. 1889 Loan, 103£; Four and a Half per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 98f. The market for colonial broadstuffs is unchanged. Adelaide wheat, ox warohouse, 58s; New Zealand do., 555; Adelaide flour, ex store, 425; Australian tallow remains at yesterday's quotations; best beef, 395; best mutton, 42s por cwt.

CALCUTTA, October 25 Occupation of Herat.

Official despatches received to - day from Afghanistan fully confirm the telegram of the 17th instant announcing the occupation of Herat by the Ameer's Tnrkestan army. The despatches further state that Abdur Rahman's troops met with no resistance in their march upon Herat, and that the occupation of the city was entirely unopposed by Ayoub Khan. The announcement received on tho 13th instant that Ayoub Khan had fled to Persia is further confirmed by the despatches now to hand. CAPETOWN, October 25. The Convention.

Telegrams are to hand from Pretoria announcing that tho Transvaal Volksraad held a sitting to-day, when the ratification of the Anglo-Boer convention was agreed to. The resolution of the Volksraad sets forth its reliance that the British Government will adhere to the promise it has made to modify the convention where its working may be deemed unfeasible.