LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 17 November 1880, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(SPECIAL TO SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.) London, November 8.

Owing to a rumor of the intended invasion by persons sympathising with victims of the League, the people of the greater part of County Mayo are arming. Monastic expulsions are causing increased excitement in France. From Chatreuse priests have emigrated to Switzerland. Troops are starving out the inmates of a monastery at Taraseon. The papers review favorably the work just issued by Sir Charles Gavin Duffy, entitled " Thirty Years History of Young Ireland."

The town of Ornquank, lately beseiged by the Kurds, is again in a critical position. The Kurds' chief crucified 30 of his followers for excesses perpetrated by them on Persian peasants. November 9. The Right Hon. Mr. Foster, secretary of Ireland, informed members of the Press of Dublin to-day that the meeting together of a larger number of persons than were actually necessary to protect the crops of victims of the Irish Land League would likely produce a collison, and therefore such a meeting would be an illegal gathering. He stated, however, that the Government would protect persons who were likely to become victims of leagues. Mr. Goschen, the British Ambassador Extraordinary to Turkey, has addressed a memorandum to the Porte in opposition to the financial schemes submitted by the Ministers for the settlement of the claims of Turkish bondholders. Mr. Goschen maintains that the proposals involve an infraction of the guarantee given to the bondholders at the time that the loans were raised, and enters his protest accordingly. Constantinople, November 9.

Immediately on receiving intelligence that Dervisch Pasha had failed in his conference with the Albanian chiefs, and that the troops would be prevented from entering Dulcigno to-morrow, Riza Pasha, who, on the 3rd inst., while endeavoring to cross Bagana River with an escort, was forcibly opposed by the Albanians, has now left the neighborhood of Dulcigno and is expected have shortly.