ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2493, 3 April 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[eeutee's telegeams.] LONDON, April 1. Banquet

Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier of New South Wales, was entertained at dinner to-day by Lord Sherbrooke (formerly Mr Robert Lowe). Among other guests present were the Right Hon. W. B. Gladstone and other distinguished statesmen. Political' The election to the vacancy in the representation of East Cornwall in the Honse of Commons took place to-day, and resulted in the return of Mr Auckland ( ? Buckland), a Liberal, by a majority of 100 over the Conservative candidate. r lhe MarketsConsols remain at 101 f. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, has declined 6d to 543; New Zealand ditto remains at 51s; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 37s 6d The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,730,000. There is only a limited demand for Australian hides. Wool Sales. The wool sales closed with a good spirit and without further quotable change in price. The total quantity sold during the series was 260,000 bales, 19,000 bales being held over for the nsxt series. RespiteDr. Lawson, who is under sentence ofdeath for the murder of his brother-in, law Percy Malcolm John, at Wimbledon in December last, has been respited until the 18th insfc.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 1 The Nihilist Prisoners.

The sentence of death passed upon ten prominent Nihilists in February last has in the case of nine been commuted by the Czar to penal servitude for life. The capital sentence will be carried out in the case of the other prisoner. The Murder of General StrelmkowTwo Nihilists, charged with being implicated in the assassination of General Strelmkow at Odessa, have been arrested. April 2. Quickly Despatched. Later telegrams are to hand from Odessa reporting that the two murderers of General Strelmkow, pnblic prosecutor, have been found guilty after summary trial, and were hanged to-day.