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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 38, 13 February 1880, Page 2

London telegrams of the 9th and lgth instant appear in the Post : — The Secretary of State for tbe Foreign Department (Lord Salisbury) still continues "in a somewhat precarious condition. He is reported to be suffering from inflammation in the stomach, flo6QWpan4§d f by gome »yms9m 9 f typfcoW

i *f evef^News frcfe Afghanistan reports that j divisions have occurred among the rebels, and that ifc is unlikely that the British will have to encounter a 'combined attack of the streiigfch^at first x f eared.— Moussa fchan, an influential Afghan, chief, has openly an- N nounced that he has no sympathy with Mohamed Jan, the chief of the Kohistanis, aud has repudiated having any share in the hostilities directed against the British by the latter. — Civil war still ragee at Herat, and severe. figbtingjs reported to, have occurred .between the leaders of trier, rival parties % Ayoiib Khan (the former Governor) and Ibrahim Khan.— A famine has occurred in Cyprus, causing great distress and misery " among the inhabitants'. Relief measures are being organised by the British Government. — Sydney mutton, ex s.s. Strathleven, sold today at BH to 6d ; beef, 4,Jd to sd. The beefisnot going off so well, but has somewhat injured the sale of home beef. Engglish mutton saverages5 averages 6£d ; American be«f, same as Australian < American mutton, Id less than Australian. Butter sells at 130s, edual to the ptic'e of the same quality English, and 6s better thaii Audericaa.— The Irish members only moved-an amend'th'e'ht to the address, a^d have not yet attempted any other form' ofcobstrdctiotf. The Government propbse,.to"grant-loan3 to'-landlords at 1 per cent. The IriaH hiem'bera- demand the., same privilege for the tenants, and a general im--provement of the land laws.— The Wool , Trade Sevietb. s&ys that owing to the continued wet weather last year, sheep rot waß extremely .prevalent, especially in the Midland and Westerh douhties; 10,000 sheep, chiefly ewes, were dead and dying in parts of Oxford, "Warwick, Somerset, and Gloucester, and, of the small portion left, it. is stated that it is expected ' a" 1 large proportion of ttie . lambing ewes will succumb. It ,ie thus-,. .becoming a matter- - of serious consideration in wool staples. — . T,he - s.s. : Hankow, one of the Colonial Line of steamers trading between England and Sydney ,,,-was <; triwed into Plymouth in- a damaged ' condition by steamtugs to-day. She met withi a severe gale in the English Channel; ber engines became disabled, and she had a very narrow escape from foundering, owing toftfre difficulty of steering her. She managedj|b. weather 4he gale, however, and was-endeaybring to make her way. into port under aaii^when ;sbfej was observed off Falmouth by f a passing vessel, and assistance was sent to her.-^A tremendous attempt is being made by the leaders of the rebels to transform the hostilities with the British into a " hj)ly war.'' Mahomed Jan's high "priest "is endeavoring tb "arouse "the ; religious, fanaticism of the tribes bypreach--I ing the "Dschilad," and is strongly incitiing "them "to massacre the British. — ' The. debate Jn..the.Souse^of jQojampns on the | Address in. .Reply .was continued to-day 1 Several of'the Irish members vehemently r«- --• proached 'the" Government with having shown, apathy to the distress among the peasantry in Ireland. 'They quoted the speech of Lord Beaconsfield at the Mansion House, as showing that the Government appeared indifferent to the suffering that existed, and urged that vigorous steps ought to be taken at once, hot only to relieve existing distress, but also to introduce such an amelioration of the. law as would prevent its recurrence. Some of the , advanced English Liberals joined in the- attack, but the leader of theparty (the Marquis of Hartington) and the Right Hon. W. E Foster, another prominent Liberal, defended the Government.— -By the fall of the barracks , at Constantinople, "in. addition to the 200 soldiers reported to have been killed outright, 300 were more or less seriosuly injured, and many of these cases it i 8 feared "will terminate fatally. — M. Isaac Adolphe Cremieux, the French statesman and lawyer^ who Was Minister of Juktice under" the Government of National Defence in 1870, died yesterday, in his 84th year.— The Motiiinq Feat in an article on the crisis in Victoria, eulogises the Governor, the Marquis of Normanby, for his independence, and states that it anxiouly watches the result of the elections : now pendiDg.— The New Zealand 5 per cent. : loan is at 108J.— The market for New Zealand \ wheat, is firm.— The steamer Hankow was in great danger, and lost her crew off Oporto ; While being towed into Plymouth tbe tugs' : lost control , and the Hankow drifted towards ' the breakwater outside,-but was .afterwards brought" up between ' the shoals, when ihs bumped the bottom at every wave. Finally four tugs brought her in, safely. The gale j was so furious, and the _waves so high, that had^the^oables parted all must have perished.,