LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3155, 8 August 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

August 5. The Irish Land Bill was under consideration in committee ia the House of Lords last night. In the course of the sitting, clauses 1 to 6 were passed, but only after several important amendments had been made by the House and against the wish and despite the opposition of the Government. The Times publishes a paragraph stating that General Valentine Baker ha? been appointed to the command of the Turkish troops in Tripoli. It is officially announced that Lord Rosebery will be appointed Under-Secre-tary of State for the Home Department, vice Mr Leonard Courtney, who has assumed the position of Under-Secretary for the Colonies. Mr Bradlaugh applied at the Police Court to-day for a summons against the police inspector iv connection with his removal from the House of Commons on Tuesday last, but the application was refused. It has transpired that the Hon. J. Russell Lowell, American Minister in London, has received a communication from Mr Blair, the United States Secretary of State, stating that everything that is possible is being done by his Government to discover and prosecute the authors and shippers ot tbe infernal machines sent to Liverpool last month per ship Malta. In the House of Lords to-Jay the Irish Land Bill was finally passed through committee, after further important mutilatious and amendments of its provisions had been made by their Lordships. The bill will be reported to the House and finally dealt with on Monday next. An important debate took place in the House of Commons to-day upon the subject of the native outrages in the South Pacific. In the course of tbe discussion Mr G. O. Trevelyan, Secretary to the Admiralty, stated that tbe Government thought it would be unwise to transfer the powers now vested in Sir Arthur Gordon to the Commodore on the Australian station, that it had been decided that men-of-war should in future visit the Islands more frequently, and that Captain Maxwell, of H.M.S. Emerald, should be appointed Deputy-Commis-sioner, and be empowered to deport oppressive or dangerous British subjects residing in the Islands.