ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2405, 20 December 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLE_NEWS.

[reuter's telegrams.] LONDON, December 16. The Markets. Consols remain at 99|. The market rate of discount has been raised to 5 J per cent.; the Bank rate remains at 5 per cent. New Zealand securities are firm at last qnotations. The market for colonial breadstuffs is quiet but steady. Adelaide wheat, ex store, 565; New Zealand ditto, 525; Adelaide flour, ex store, 41s 6d. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,809,000 quarters. Australian tallow is firm at 39s Gd for best beef and 44s 6d for best mutton.

December 18. New Peer. It is announced that Sir Geo. Brainwell, who resigned the position of Lord Justice of Appeal in September last, has been raised to the peerage, The State of Ireland. The Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State for India, made a speech today at Burley, Lancashire, in the course of which he stated that although the Leaguers were continuing a guerilla warfare in Ireland, there were hopeful signs that the agitation in that country was gradually diminishing. Among the chief of these was the fact of an increasing tendency which has of late been shown on the part of juries to convict for agrarian offences. The Parliament. It is announced that her Majesty the Queen will attend in person at the opening of Parliament in February next. ALEXANDRA, December 18. Frozen Meat. The steamship Europa, from Australia for London with a cargo of frozen meat, has passed through the canal. Her cargo is reported to be in perfect condition.