ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4264, 29 March 1879, Page 4

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

[BY SUBMARINE CABLB.]

[bBUTBB'S TKI.EGRAMB..I London, March £3, The wool sales closed to-day. 230,009 bales were sold during the series, Sosft being held over for next sales. I The Ouzoo eailod from Plymouth. Iα the House of Commons, there was % lengthy discussion on tho vote o! want of confidence, moved by Sir Charles Dilko, relativo to the Zulu war. Lord Stanley eaid the motion to inexpedient, and in making bis statement defended Sir Bartle Frere. The House agreed to an adjournment of ' the debate until the 23bh. The TTndcr-SeoretaTy for India will ask leave to introduce a Bill to authorise a loan of ten million! to England for India en Wednesday. A Russian official note propose* that a corps oE 15,000 man, made up o? oontißgenU from the Great Powers, shall oooapyßou. xneliafora twelvemonth. The evacuating Eu«sians maintain order. Tenders for the Queensland Four Pc? Cent Loan of £1,184,436 amount to £3,234,000. Those at £89 Iβ 6d and upwards will be. allotted in full. COJHffiAKTIXOPLB, Mttch Sβ. A majority of the Europf&n Commission, engaged in settling Boumelian affairs, Ist declared to the Great Powers that, in cosmqnence of tho great excitement of the pontile tion, and of the position of Russian oMckk, the finanoial administration of tho jwitMe, according to tho Treaty o£ Berlin, is impossible. [SPEOIAIi TO XH» 3P2See AQBHOY.] I XiONDOS, March 26. I" Thej Oriental Bank are uaablo to pay » ■ dividend for the last half-year. The whole c£ ' tho reserve has been absorbed. MawbSfc The Committee will unseat Sir B. O'Loghlon. Mr Arthur Mills will ask Sir M. HicksBeach to-morrow to lay on the table copies oi '• the Victorian and other Australian tariffs, [special xo siobh.] London, Maroh 26, Eighteen thousand immigrant refugees entered Bulgaria from Boumclia. A fresh - rebellion ie expected in Macedonia. AUSTRALIA, [BEuTBB'e TEI,BGB^MB.^ MBLBOFBSrn, March 28. Arrived—Bingarooma yesterday. Sydset, March 28. Tho large expedition has started from hero for Hew Guinea under the aueptcpg of Bsron Mackley, scientist and New Guinea traveller. Flour it unchanged; Adeliide, 5i 3d; JSeff Zealand wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; Now ftatono" - oate, 3s 61; brandy, kerosene, rice, tobacco, and sugar are without quotable change. Bbisbahb, March 28. Mr Bell k appointed President of the Legislative Council. [Via Auckland.] The fight for the ohampionship of the cotouXe and fifteen hundred pounds, between Kolejrof New South Wales and Hicben of Victoria, wai off near Moama early in tho morning. *"•; greitesfc difficulty wa3 experienced in the police. Ihe monnted troopers were ses» miles in the wrong direction;_ nko erowes w sporting people who travelled milas caclursa t-e preatest hardship >. To prevent tho encounter Sergeatit O'Meara, of |he Victorian ]iolici>, wjjf present, fent was unable to interfere, ac the ngm took place in tho New South Wales Jiico of us border. Hicken suffered terriblr (it tie s«j teenth and Ust round. Ho was fct.ockwj all about the ring, until he fell on hia knees. Fousyshowed himself throughout a very hard hitter. The fehip Northam, fitted nn with Moxts freezing apparatus, was burned at "6* *£?* six weeks cut, on the road to Sydney. W«"® the ve3sol was burniDg the barqne Albion, bomw for Eio Janioro, came up and rescued lyiea board. Tho pas3QDgera lost nearly e?erjtoin«r' After the stmtner Garonne got off , etc went back to Adelaide for inspection. The surveyors reported that there was nothing to preTcat nor; going to sea, which sho accordingly did. Cook, the billiard player, was a passenger <w board the mail steamer, bound for Australia. The contract for the University Bnildings aj Adelaide for twenty-four thousand seven htmarea pounds, was accepted. ■■ i f Five thousand immigrants have arrived ex Sydney from England during tho year. Ccinnor and partj with tie black trackers tSturned to Benalla after a long- find itauim search ia th-3 ranges. Ono of the irackeß nieo from inflamiafttion of tho hm?9. Alargepariy of poUee with black trackers left Mansfiew. their destination is said to be Wombat raoffej. There is a suspicicn that ihe Kellys aro ia tie vioiaity of Xerang. - . ... A very disorderly meeting of fcho medical ppv fession vra3 held in reference to tho position as3ume3 by Dr. Beaney in England. A >^f_ a .l tion wee ropudi.titg Dr. Baaney. »°*f% the evening, Dr. B'air, who ttrorigly deieeaef Beaney, was turned out. ■ .' At Now Guinea, fif'fienoufc of twenty with their wives and children, landed there oy the John Williams, have'already [died throoge poison and fever. «..«« Tho barque Manifred, of North SfoeKS; foundered at the Lacepedes ia a hnmcaae January 21th. The crew reached■ CossacK» the. Government cutter. Tho ship Bunwasew,. went ashore on Browse Island in the same gw»It i 3 rumored that other vessels went ftsfaowThe hurricane was felt eevercly at KocbqxirnSr and several houses were unroofed.