ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2410, 26 December 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[eetjteb’s telegrams.] LONDON, December 23, Quite Right* The President of the Ladies’ Land League has bosn summoned at Cork for seditious conduct. She was committed for trial, and as she refnsed to give bail, has been imprisoned. PARIS, December 23. Tunisian Items. It is announced that M. Roustan, the French delegate to the Bey of Tunis, who has been on a visit to this city, will shortly resume his post at Tunis. TUNIS, December 23. Three of the principal tribes in Southern Tunis continue to resist the French army, and further fighting has taken place between the latter and the insurgents. ROME, December 23. The State of Popedom. The Pope, in receiving a deputation of Cardinals to-day, stated in the course of his address that his position in Rome was daily growing more unbearable, and he feared that the Church would have to submit to further severe persecution. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 23. Russian Intrigue. It has transpired that the Russian Government is opposing the settlement arrived at between the foreign bondholders’ delegates and the Ottoman Financial Commission for payment of the Turkish debt, on the ground that the same pledges the expenditure of certain new revenues of the Turkish Empire. The Unspeakable Turk. O’Donovan, formerly correspondent to the London “Daily News,” has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for libelling the Sultan. Lord Dnfferin, the British Minister, is interesting himself with the Porte on behalf of the prisoner. CAPETOWN, December 23, Prefers Something Better. It is announced that Sir Evelyn Wood has refused the Lieutenant-Governorship of Natal, and has embarked for England.