LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3530, 31 October 1882, Page 3

LONDON.

October 17,

A conference of members of the Irish National Land League has been convened for to-morrow at Edgemontstown, Lienster, by Michael Davitt, for the purpose of organising a movement to agitate for the better education of the people, the improvement of tenant dwellings, and the extension of industries, especially fisheries, in Ireland. The authorities at Dublin have deemed it advisable to increase the number of soldiers on guard at the vice-regal lodge iv Pbasnix Park. Is is again generally asserted that Sir John Adye, late Chief of the Staff in Egypt, will succeed Lord Napier of Magdalla in the Governorship of Gibraltar. The position the latter has held since June, 1876. October 20. The Right Hon. Mundella, Vice-Presi-dent of the Council of the present Government, has delivered a speech in opposition to the proposal for rendering education afforded in the primary schools in all cases free. Traffic on the railway recently constructed through the St. Gothard mountain is rapidly increasing. Stanley, the celebrated explorer, has been banquetted at Paris on his return from his recent expedition in Central Africa. In the course of an interesting speech be detailed his experience of establishing trading stations along the Congo, and said that he had formed four of these stations. Mr Stanley refuted a variety of calumnies circulated against him in respect to the mode in which he had conducted tbe expedition, and denied having made improper treaties witn the native authorities.

A letter has been published in the Times newspaper from John Dunn, the Zulu chief, which asserts that the return of Cetawayo must result in further bloodshed, as neither himself nor the other chiefs will submit to the restoration of Cetawayo's supremacy. The police authorities in Leicester have effected an important seizure of Fenian documents in that town. They disclose the existence of a wide-spread conspiracy, and show that" the secret movements of the Fenian organisation are now being in a great measure directed from England, where the wire-pullers are less exposed than in Ireland to inspection and detection on the part ot tbe authorities. Herbert Bismarck, a son of the Imperial Chancellor of Germany, has been appointed secretary to the German Embassy in London. The Duke of Connaught is to receive the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in recognition of his recent services in the Egyptian campaign. The finances of Egypt are rapidly being put in order. There is now a large sum of money in the treasury, and the revenue is flowing in freely.

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