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Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1630, 14 December 1882, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN. [BY TELEGRAMS.]

irish* Murders!— The" National League.— The Fire in London.— Earl Derby Joins the Cabinet. . / [Received l^cm^cj- 13.?1.5 a.m.] ,'

Oaiko, Djecemberill., , FiFTY-KonK rebel prisoners have been released from custody without having been brought to trial. Five of the prisoner* who confessed to participation in the murder of the Joyce family at . Mnamtras'sna/ and were duly found guilty and sentenced to death, have now had their sentences commuted to pehaf servitude for' life.' The death sentence will be carried out in the .case of, the otlier prisoners. i , ? Intelligence to hand from Ireland states "that, despite the" prohibition "issued', a" meeting of the National League was held yesterday at Loughrcu, County Galway. The* Second warehouse occupied by •Silberand Fleming, which was burned down on Saturday night, formed part of the block situated in Wood-street, between Addle-street and London Wall, which was the scene of the conflagration on the Bth. A fresh fire broke out among the still smouldering ruins. The flames spread rapidly, aud , before they could be got under the building and its contents were completely destroyed.

London, December 12. In its issue this morning the Standard announces that Earl Derby will sit in the Cabinet as Secretary for India, vice the Marquis of Hartington, who will take the portfolio of War ; Mr Childers, the present Secretary of State for Wav, assuming the Chrnoeliorship of the Exchequer, about to be resigned by the Premier.

Affairs in the Soudan. -The Madagascar Embassy. [Received December 13th, 1.1."> p.m.l -Ar.KXAXDiuA, December 12. The British oHioers despatched by Crcncral Alison to investigate the state of affairs in the Soudan, report that Khartoum is safe, and that all is quiet iv the vicinity. The vanguard of the Egyptian expedition despatched ago mat the False Prophet has reached Khartoum. London, December 12. ' The members of the Embassy scut to Europe by the Queen of Madagascar, and who recently arrived in London, had an audience to-day of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor.