BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6499, 26 December 1881, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Rctrom’a Tkuwhum*.J DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE. LONDON, Dec. 2i The projected Intercat tonal Exchange at Dublin has been abandoned, in consequence of dispute* which have arisen between member* of the Executive Committee, in regard to a proposal to ask the Qneen'a patronage. RELEASE Of A BAND LEAGUER. Kettle* a prominent Land Leaguer, who wa* arretted in May last, hu been released from custody owing to hie continued Bi-health. SEIZURE OF ARMS. A seizure of 30 rifle# and 50 revolver* waa node to-day by the police Limerick. ARREST OP A SEDITIOUS WOMAN. LONDON. Dec. 23. A lady Land Leaguer has been sum* monedat Cork for seditions conduct. She was committed for trial, and at she refused to give bail, hoe been imprisoned.

THE FRENCH RESIDENT AT TUNIS, PARIS, Dec. 23. II in announced that M. Houston, French delegate to the Bey, who has been oa a visit to this city, will shortly resume his post at Tania, ARREST OP A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 22, Mr O’Donovan, formerly co rrcspoadent of the London Da% News with the Russian Expedition to Mere, has .been arrested here for publicly slandering the Saltan, O’DONOYAN’S SENTENCE. Mr O’Donovan was sentenced to sis months* imprisonment for libelling the Saltan. Lord Dufferin, British Minister, is interesting himself with the Porto on behalf of the prisoner. THE TURKISH DEBT. CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. 23. The Russian Government is opposing the settlement arrived at between the foreign bondholders’ delegates and the Ottoman Financial Commission, on the ground that it pledges the expenditure of certain new revenae* of the Turkish Empire.

THE CHURCH OP ROME, ROME. Dec, 2*. 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 unbearable, and ho feared that the Church would hare to submit to farther serero persecution. RESISTANCE TO THE FRENOH, TUNIS. Dsc. 23. Throe of the principal tribe* in Southern Tunis continue to resist the French army, and further fighting has token place, SIR EVELYN WOOD, CAPETOWN, Dec. 23. It is announced that Sir Evelyn Wood ha* refused the LieutenantGorernorsbip of Natal, and has barked for England.