GREAT BRITAIN.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1881, Page 2

GREAT BRITAIN.

A NEW ANTARTIC EXPEDITION. THE REIGN OF TERROR IN IRELAND. FLOCKING OF'iRISH REFUGEES TO LONDON. COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN WALES. 100 LIVES LOST. SINKING OF A FRENCH STEAMER. 250 PERSONS DROWNED. Mr. Gladstone will probably propose a grant of .£25,000 to General Roberts. A new Antarctic expedition will be undertaken by Dr. Allen and Mr. Young. It is rumored that Earl Dnffcrin will bo transferred to Constantinople. Keniplay, farm agonts, Manchester, havo failed. Caldwell, railway contractor, London, has also Busponded payment. A number of Irish refugees aro flocking to London, many of them being destitue. Tho League Courts are shutting out appeals to the ordinary tribunals. Business men fear to serve on juries, and lawyers to act against the Leaguers, for fear of assassination. Parnoll declares the Government are too weak to crush the League. The Orange Grand Lodge has arranged a code of signals for the men to assemble at any time of night. An explosion at Pwll-y-Graig colliery, Rhondda Valley, killed nearly a hundred miners. 250 persons lost their lives by the sinking of a French steamer near Speggia. A Nihilist re-action has set in in St. Petersburg. A stronger revolutionary movement is threatened. The admission of French monks into Spain has been restricted. The anti-Jewish crusade in Germany is increasing. Many Socialists havo been arrested, on charges of high treason. The Czar refuses to allow foreign intervention in regard to China. China offers to refer the questions at issue to arbitration.