LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 256, 20 December 1880, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, December 17. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,250,000 quarters,'* Australian tallow t beat beef 335 ; best mutton 365. Best Sydney copra £16. Best sides Australian leather lid. Ten thousand pounds havc been subscribed for the defence of Parnell and the other Leaguers who are to be tried in Dublin,

The English Government has thanked Admiral S?ymbur for the manner in which he conducted the biovehients of thfe combined fleet when io dehionstratioh against Turkey for delivering up Dulcigno to Montenegro.

St. Petersburg, December 17.

Four hundred students have beeu arrested at Moscow on suspiciou of beiog concerned as Nihilists.

Amsterdam*, December 17

The Dutch Government are makiug preparations to send out au Arctic Expedition.

AtHKNs, December 17

Greece bas declined to negotiate with Turkey, and England haa proposed that ihe difficulties between the two countries should be settled by arbitration.

[Special to the AJelbourne Argus,] (Per Rotomabana at the Bluff ) London, December 7. There was a great demonstration on the departure of the Ist battalion of Coldstream Guards from London for service in Ireland, wbere they havo demanded more troops. If Mr Parnell and the other Irish members of Parliament, against whom proceedings have been instituted, attend the Parliament ai*d ignore their trials they will be arrested in the lobby of the House.

December 9

It is rumored that the Porte intends to cede the Island of Crete to Germany on the same terms that Cyprus was ceded to England.

It is stated that the marriage of Baroness Burdett Coutts with Mr Ashmead Bartlett has been abandoned.

The antagonism of the Orangemen in Ireland towards the supporters of the Land League increases

Large importations of arms continue to be made, aDd ooe Dublin dealer admits having sold 200 revolvers in a week.

An Irishman bas been murdered at Birmingham for announcing his secession from the Irish Laud League, The murderers escaped.

December 11. Insurrectionary movements are extending amongst the Irish peasantry. The League Courts are decftseifl-* punishment against jpersohs failing to subscribe to the League-, trading with its opponents, or in any waj*- violutiug the rules of tbe League.

Mr Justice Fitzgerald, one of the Judges of tbe Irish Bench, has been threatened.

There is increasing public dissatisfaction against the Government.

December 13

Tbe Times declares that the condition of Ireland is such aa to require the Executive to -assume coercive powers, asking subsequently for indemnity. There i9 no time, the lending journal urges, for legislation.

There has been a great subsidence of land in the salt districts of Cheshire.