LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 15 December 1880, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(SPECIAL TO SYDNEY MORNING HERAI.D,) London, December 7.

The Irish authorities have . demanded further reinforcements. The Coldstream Guards have been despatched to Ireland, and were the recipients of a great demonstration on leaving London*. In the event of Mr. Parnell or any of the Irish members who are being prqseeuted for sedition, attempting to attend

Parliament and ignore the. trial, they will be arrested in the lobby. - Intelligence has been received that the Khnrds have massacred 4QO pilgrims. . December 8. In consequence of the increasing agitation in Irelaud, the Government resolved to have recourse to more strenuous measures for the preserving of peace than have hitherto been adopted. With this object they are now prohibiting holding all meetings in connection with the Land League, which are considered likely to lead to disturbance.. A meeting of this kind projected to be held at Brookesborough, near Enniskillen, but the local authorities interfered and prohibited the meeting. Large numbers of the disaffected then assembled in the streets of the town, arid were summoned to disperse. They refused to do so, and as there was on the spot a strong body of polics, which had been previously reinforced by the military, the Riot Act was read. The crowd refused to separate, and exhibited a threatening demeanour. The constables and dragoons then charged the people, whom they speedily and c implerely dispersed. A number of arrests were made.

New York, December 6,

President Hayes has sent a message to Congress which recommends that General Ulysses Grant be appointed Commander of the United States Army,