ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2483, 22 March 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] LONDON, March 20. The Markets.

Consols remain at 10H. New Zealand securities are unchanged at the following quotations :—Five per Cent. 10-40 Loan, 104; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 104£; Four and a Half per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 103. The market rate of discount has declined to 3|- per cent. The Bank rate is 4 per cent. Adelaide wheat, ex store, remains at 535, and New Zealand ditto at 495. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 375. Australian tallow—Best beef, 395; best mutton, 445. At tba wool sale to-day 9500 bales were catalogued, making a total of 177,800 offered since the comment of the series. Bidding was steady, but the demand for lots offered was not active. The Cloture. In the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr Gladstone moved the adjournment of the House from April 4th to April 17th, for the usual Easter recess. The adjourned debate upon the Premier’s motion for the introduction of the cloture was resumed this afternoon and is now proceeding. The Condition of Ireland. The accounts to hand from the disturbed districts of Ireland are causing grave apprehension. Agrarian outrages are again on the increase, and fresh cases of attacks with fire arms and maiming cattle daily reported to the police. Eir H. Parkes. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, arrived here to-day from New York. BERLIN, March 20. The Astute Chancellor. In the course of conversation to-day Prince Bismarck said that his energies would he wholly devoted to the maintenance of peace in Europe. PARIS, March 20. national Jealousy. Telegrams to hand from Tunis report that the relations been the French and the Italian residents in that country have assumed a decidedly hostile phase, and that constant affrays are taking place in the city of Tunis and other towns between the two classes.