CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2459, 22 February 1882, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

ENGLISH & FOREIGN [reuteb’s telegrams.] LONDON, February 20. The Markets. Consols have declined to Now Zealand securities remain at the following quotations :—Fire per Cent. 10-40 Loan, 104 J; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 104; Four and a Half perCcnt. 18791904 Loan, 99£, ex dividend. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 55a ; New Zealand ditto has declined Is, and is now quoted at 52. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 40s. Australian tallow —Best beef, 42s 6d; best mutton, 48s. February 21. The Lords CommivtueEarl Granville, Foreign Secretary and leader of the Government in the House of Lords, has declined to share in the formation of a Select Committee, which that chamber recently decided should be appointed to enquire into the working of the Irish Land Act, and it has further transpired that Mr Gladstone will on Monday next move in the House of Commons that the [proposed enquiry by the Select Committee of the House of Lords is untimely, and will defeat the operation of the Act and prove injurious to good government in Ireland. Mr Gladstone’s proposed motion is likely to meet with strong opposition from the Conservatives, several members of that party having already protested against the motion. The Cloture Question. In the House of Commons last night, Mr Gladstone introduced the motion standing in his name, providing for new rules to govern the procedure of Parliament. In proposing the same, the Premier made a lengthy speech, in the course of which he expressed his willingness to modify the rule for the adoption of cloture, so as to provide that the minority by which the same may be opposed should “ exceed one hundred, instead of being less than forty,” as sat forth in the motion before the House. On the conclusion of Mr Gladstone’s speech. Sir Stafford Northcote rose and formally opposed the motion, explaining his objections to the proposals of the Government. The debate was then adjourned. ST. PETERSBURG, February 20. An Untrustworthy Declaration. Official communication has been published here by the Government having reference to the recent speech of General Skoheloff to the Servian students at Paris, in which it is merely stated that the Russian policy is not affected by the utterances -of private individuals, and that the Government intends to continue its present pacific policy.