ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2393, 3 December 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[BEUTEB'S TEIEGBAMS.]

LONDON, December 1 Quotations.

Consols, 5 per cent., market rate 4£ per cont. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England £10,750,000. New Zealand securities :—Five per Cent. 10-40 Loan, 104 ; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 104; Four and a Half per Cent., 18791904 Loan, 101£. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 56; New Zealand do, 525; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 41s 6d. Australian tallow—Best beef, 38s; best mutton, 41s 6d. Wool Sales: A good demand was again experienced at to-day's wool auction. The catalogue comprised 9100 bales. The total quantity withdrawn from sale since the opening is 3000 bales. Protection. As the Tariff Convention is now sitting at New York, the delegates of twenty-five States have made speeches in favor of 1 increased protection being afforded through the tariff to local industry. December 2. The Land Laws. At a meeting of the Aberdeen delegates of the Scotch Land League to-day, representations, signed by 40,000 farmers, were presented demanding the immediate reform of the land laws. Another Big Loan. It is reported on the London Stock Exchange that a four million loan for the colony of Victoria will shortly be placed on the market. WASHINGTON, December 1. Trial of Guiteau. The trial of Guiteau continues. The prisoner was examined by counsel at great length to-day. In his replies he detailed the impulses which led him to commit the crime. PARIS, December 2. The Tunisian Campaign. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day a vote to cover the expenses of the Tunisian campaign was passed after slight opposition. In the course of the debate M. Gambetta took occasion to refer to the benefits likely to arise from European control of Egypt, and spoke in favour of I the same.