CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1281, 23 February 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—(COPYRIGHT.) [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS], L( )N DON, February 21. The Debate on tbe address in reply to the Speech from the. Throne (was continued in the House of Commons to-day, when the amendment proposed by Mr Gorst. M.P., for Chatham, “That no further concessions should be made to lawless agitation in Ireland ” was under consideration. In the course of a lengthy and animated debate the policy of the Government was violently attacked by O’Brien and O’Donnell who declared that the outrages which occurred in Ireland were the result of coercion. Two arrests have been made of persons who are charged with the murder of the police constable at Lough-Rea in 1881, CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 21. It has transpired that the Porte has caused an examination to be made into the circumstances attending the recent disturbances at Tripoli, during which the Italian flag was insulted at the Consulate of that country and has ordered that full reparation shall be made for outrages committed during the riot.

PARIS, Feb. 22. Jules Ferry succeeded in forming a Cabinet, and the various portfolios allotted as follows :—Ferry, Premier, and Minister of Education ; General Theban din, Minister of War; Rouscan, Minister of the Interior; Chaltemel Lacoux, Minister of Foreign Affairs j Tirard, Minister of Finance ; Zrun (? Brun), Minister for the Colonies ; Henssen, Minister of Commerce.

Ferry, it has transpired asks President Grevy to issue a decree placing Dynastic Princes, who hold appointments in the army upon the retired list.