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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 157, 2 July 1880, Page 2

The following London telegrams dated 22nd and 23rd June, appear in the Melbourne papers : — A recent despatch shows that Sir Henry Layard, when Ambassador •at the Forte, even threatened the Sultan, and stated that in order to secure reforms and good government in Turkey the Powers must be prepared to go further than menace. He has been instructed to avoid menace for the present. — The action taken by the Glad stone Government, in threatening to employ material force to compel Turkey to carry out her engagements under the Treaty of Berlin, is considered likely to lead to grave complications. While France and Italy support the steps taken by England, Germany and Austria are averse to coercive measures being pushed to extremity. — The famine is extending among the inhabitants of the West of Ireland, and great distress prevails there despite all the efforts made on the part of the central committee to distribute relief throughout the suffering districts. In Charleston, in the County of Mayo, twenty deaths have occurred from the effects of fever and starvation.— ln the House of Commons last night, the debate upon Mr Labouchere's motion that Mr Bradlaugh be allowed to make, an affirmation in lien of being sworn was resumed. The Radical element strongly supported the motion, but the Conservatives and a large n amber of Liberals opposed any special exemption being made in favor of Mr Bradlaugh. Upon a division the motion was defeated by a majority of 45. The Government voted with the minority. The greatest excitement prevailed upon the Speaker declaring the result. The Tories were most jubilant, and cheered enthusiastically. A motion bad been tabled on the previous day by Sir Hardinge Giffard, M.P. for Launceston and Solicitor-General in the Beaconsfield Government, declaring "That, in the opinion of the House, Mr Bradlaugh should not be sworn, as upon bis own admission he did not recognise the sanctity or binding tature of an oath, or be permitted to make an affirmation." This resolution came on for discussion, and created considerable interest. It was adopted without a division.