BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2823, 12 April 1882, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter’s Agency, j Parnell on ParoleLondon, AprilTO. News has been received hero that Mr Parnell has been released from custody and has left Dublin for Englkhd. l !i% LATER.' r It has transpired that Mr Parnell, who is now on his way from Dublin, has : been released on parole for a week, 1 tb enable him to visit Paris, where his sister, one of whose' children has recently died, resides. . , ' , ; Mr Parnell. passed through London to-day on his way to Paris. A demonstration was organised to meet him, but be purposely.'evaded it, and is travelling, with all possible speed. Volunteer IReviewA Volunteer review was held to-day at Portsmouth, in the presence of HisRoyal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge. Thirty thousand men were in the field,'and nothing occurred to mar the success of the demonstration. ■ - . The Great GortsoliakoffIt is announced (hat Prince Gortsoha-. koff has been relieved of his official duties as Minister of Foreign Adairs. His Highness, who filled 'the. position for the period of twenty-six years, will, however, retain the dignity of Chan* ; cellor of the Empire. It is further announced that M. Giers, whq resighed his seat in. the Council of Ministers shortly after the issue of the Imperial manifesto in May last year, will succeed , Prince Gortschakoff. '\-i i A.

The announcement of ther retirement of Prince GortscJmkoff. ,has -been received with general-satisfaction by the European Press, and the, appointment' of M. Qiera as' successor .m inters> preted as . indicating an adoption of an ; avowedly pacific foreign poliryV