CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 70, 21 September 1881, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

♦ THE IRISH PRISONERS. AN AMNESTY EEFUSED. THE ANGLO-FRENCH NEGOTIATIONS. DEATH OF PRESIDENT GAEFIELD. | RKUTKR'S TELEGRAMB. | London, 19th September. Mr. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has refused to grant a general liberation of the prisoners who are detained in custody tinder the provisions of the Irish Coercion Act. Consols are unchanged at 99 j1. New Zealand securities remain at following quotations :—5: — 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 102£ ; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 102* ; 4£ per cent. 18791904 loan, 99£. Adelaide wheat, 575, ex store. New Zealand wheat, ex store, has declined Is, to 555. Adelaide flour, ex store, remains at 41s. Australian tallow has advanced 6d. Best beef, 40s ; best mutton, 42s 6d. At the wool sale to-day 8000 bales were offered. An active demand was experienced for all descriptions. Paris, 19th September. The negotiations on the subject of the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty commenced here to-day. M. Tirard, the French Minister of Commerce, expressed himself in cordial terms towards England, and is hopeful that a satisfactory understanding will be arrived at. Sir Charles Dilke, TJnder-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply, fully endorsed the expressions of M. 1 ii ard. M. Roustan, the French Resident at Tunis, is in thiß city conferring with the Cabinet in regard to the course to be taken in view of the present position of affairs in Tunis. Washington, 19th September. President Garfield died to-day (evening) at Long Branch.