HOME AND FOREIGN.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 41, 9 August 1888, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

London, Aug. 6. ■ ;•■ The Bight Eev. : Dr. Mackarness, ' - bishop of Oxford, has resigned. In a letter to The Times Mr Parnell ;ehalienges Mr Chamberlain „ to publish the Irish Local Government and Coercion Bills, which Mr O'Hea alleged he drafted, but were not. accepted by the last Cabinet. ,;.- Mr Parneil states that in those bills w.ere to be substituted for Parliaments. ... The Parnell Judicial Commission v meet promptly to decide on the ! inethftd of working the inquiry and • ,', the limitation of the charges. It •will then-j adjourn until October. -^jis: probable that a ; conference Tpjll be convened at Berlin to settle tjbie Bulgarian difficulty. ' nKayal manoeuvres by vessels of the British navy have taken place on the western coast of Scotland. During the .operations Admiral Tryon, in command of H.M.S. Calypso, managed to elude the defending ship,. H.M.S. Blackadder, and captured the town of Oban. !The torpedo gunboat Slpider, another of the attacking squadron, "bombarded Greenock and Campbeltowh. The commander of the Spider claims that his tactics would ; hare. resulted in tjie destruction of "ike shipping of those ports. Bomb, Aug. 5. All, the Powers are ifayorable to the Italian annexation of Massowah, except Trance. Calcutta, Aug. 5. Information has been received ■fhaj the'Thibeteans" are invading Sikkim. •Berlin, Aug. 5. Sever© floods are being experienced in the western districts of Russia, and also in some-portions of Germany and AsUstria. The National Zeiiimg publishes an article in which it states that the •connection 'between the Australian -colonies and England is daily be«coming weaker. Washington, Aug. 5. <&>neral Sheridan, commander of i;he army,- died to-day, aged 57. ' Sonator 331 air has introduced a motion affirming the desirableness of negotiating with England for a political union between the United States and the Dominion of Canada.