ENGLISH & FOREIGN

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2509, 22 April 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN

[betjtek's telegbams.] LONDON, April 21,

Irish i flairs

A great outcry has been raised on account of a police circular which, it has transpired, has recently been issued by the Irish Executive, notifying that escorts and magistrates will be held blameless if, having good reason to suspect that an attack is about to be made upon them, they should shoot persons who would be innocent of the crime. The subject was brought up in the House of Commons last night, and Mr Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, acknowledged, in reply to a question, that a circular had been issued, and admitted that the action of the Executive was indiscreet. During the debate which ensued Mr J. E. Redmond, the Home Rule member for New Ross, made a violent attack npon the Government, and refusing to be called to order, was suspended for alluding to Mr Forster in villying language.

Piscatorial ExhibitionAn important meeting was held last evening to promote a fisheries exhibition. The meeting was attended by many influential persons, among whom was Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier of New Sonth Wales, who referred to the proposed exhibition as likely to stimulate the hitherto neglected fisheries of Australia. CALCUTTA, April 21. Wholesale Massacre

Telegrams have been received from Burmah, reporting that Eing Theebaw has caused the Queen and fifty-two notables of the kingdom to be put to death. No details of the massacre are yet to hand.