ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5063, 29 November 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

7 [BETJ'TEB'STKiiEeEAMfI.J I, LONDON, November 26. * Gonads have risen to IGOf. There are no further changes to reporjj in the money market or in colonial breadstufEa or tallow. . j / = - : M the wool auction to-day* 7600 bales were offered,' arid a firm and active demand -was Again: experienced. Aβ comJiarecl with the rates ruling at the close of last sales, prices for fleece, ate now fully ljd higher, scoured, is about Id, and greasy croesbreds are o|d to Id higher. 3?ieKghtHon.3ilarquie of Hartingtton, Secretary of State for India, addressed a crowded meeting at Blackburn, liancashire, this orening. In the coarse of his speecb he alluded at length to the present state of affairs in Ireland. Hβ regretted that the situation in that country causei the utmost anxiety, and was calculated to inspire the greatest disappointment and dissatisfaction. Agrarian outrages are alarmingly rife, and the exercise of the rights of property ia fraught with difficulty and danger. His Lordship- added that the situation was j receiving the earnest attention of the Government, who would continue to act > with unswerving firmness and inexhaustible patience. The barque Pampero, 588 tons, bound from, ? Liverpool, to Port Chalmers, ex. j perienced a eev*re gale off the English coast during which she was dismasted. She hue been towed into Penzanee for repairs. • "••'-.-•.. Owing to the continued increase of Che busineae brought before the Land Courts, three additional Comraissioßets have been appointed in Ireland to-' tsal . the cases under "the Land Act, -• •

ST. PETERSBURG, November 26. An attempt on the life of Ignatig-, Minister of the Into—or, was -Stpde in this city —.'day, by a youth, who fi_id at the General with a revolver. He

•jras at once arrested, and has since confessed that Eβ was instigated to commit the attempted crime. CONSTAMNOPLE, November 26. Negotiations are now pending between the Russian Ambassador and the Ottoman Financial Commission, with a view to arrive at an amicable arrangement regarding tha payment of the war indemnity doe by Turkey to Russia. \r"~T"r:. "rtryiENNA; Nbvembey26;: d The decision of the Government to place Bosnia under the Austrian system of military service has caused great discontent among the Bosnians, especially on the part of those resident in the district of Cattaro, on the Montenegrin frontier, and the inhabitants_o£ that district have risen in arms against the Austrian authorities, and severe .fighting has already taken place between the insurgents and the Austrian troops despatched to Gat* taro. . '■ - • -