SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1009, 14 March 1883, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

i" [TO TUB AGE.] I !, LONDON, March 1. i The House of Commons is still enIgaged in debating the Irish question. [The causes of prevailing distress and [the best remedies applied having been fmade the subject of a warm debate. { It is considered that hostilities must {inevitably break ! out between Turkey land Albania, the latter country being {determined to resist .by force any interference in her affairs by the Ottoman , Porte. • The promoters have failed floating the Australian* Loan and Agency Company, which was being formed in London, with a capital of £IOO,OOO. Very, few applications for shares have been received, and it has now been decided not to allot the shares applied for. Applicants will therefore have their deposits returned. The report that a warrant had been issued to arrest the mysterious individual known as “No 1” who directed the movements of the assassins’ committee is now stated to be incorrect, as up to the present time no clue has been obtained as to bis identity.

Egan, the treasurer of the Irish Land League, has levanted to Spain, taking with him the principal books and papers of the League. It is reported that these documents include accounts, showing appropriation from the funds of the League “ Secret Murder Fund and that Egan’s action is part of a preconcerted plan to render the proposed audit of the books impossible. The action of the man Carey, who has gained such notoriety through turning Queen’s evidence at the trial of a number of persons, for conspiring to shoot Government officials, is viewed with feelings of indignation by the Dublin Corporation* of which he was a member. At a recent meeting of that body it was accordingly resolved to expel him from his municipal office. With a view to. rendering the knowledge of Colonial masters more general, the London School Board has decided to amend the curriculum now in force in schools, and to introduce a of books containing special information with regard to the Colonies. The prosecution of a man named Toole for blasphemy has resulted in his conviction, and he has been sentenced to' one year’s imprisonment with hard labour. The Scotch residents of London are agitating for the amendment of the land laws relating" to the Highlands of Scotland, and several public meetings have been held for the purpose of bringing their views under the notice of Government. M. Ferry, the French Premier, has announced that his Ministry do riot propose to make any alteration in the attitude which France has assumed as regards members of the Legitimist faction. The Due de Chartris, one of the French princes who, on the 25th ult, were placed on the “ retired” list of the French army, intends to visit India shortly. The Prussian Government has resolved to expel Danish residents from Prussia, "on the ground that the Danes refuse to perform military service with the army now stationed at Schleswig.