LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 111, 8 November 1881, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

AUSTRIA. AND THE KEN T G OF ITALY. THE lEI3H LAND COMMISSION. Vienna, 7fch November. In the Lower House of the Anstrian Eeichsrath to-day, Baron de Kallay, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made a statement to the effect that the recent visit o£ King Humbert of Italy to Vienna wa3 made entirely at his Majesty's own instigation. "Austria," the Under-Secretary added, " had nothing to ask and nothing to fear from Italy." London, 7th November. Owing to tho enormous amount of business which continues to be brought before the Land Commissioners in Ireland, Gevernment has been compelled to appoint several additional sub- commissioners to hold courts for dealing with the great pressure of the work. THE BOERS AND THE CONVENTION. AHCHBISHOP M'CABE AND THE LAND LEAGUE. [SPECIAL TO THE MELBOURNE ARUCJS.J London, 29th October. The Volksraad, in ratifying the convention entered into between the Boer leader and the British Government, declares that it accepts the convention in order to avoid bloodshed, and promote the common welfare of the States of South Africa. In the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Dublin, yesterday, a pastoral letter by Dr. M'Cabe, Archbinhop of Dublin, was read from the pulpit, in which the " no rent" cry, raised by the Irish National Land League, was vigorous denounced. The most rev. prelate concluded that to advocate or accept such Communistic theories would disgrace any Christian people. A number of the congregation left the Cathedral while the pastoral letter was being read. The German Government have conveyed to the Italian Ministry an assurance of the special pleasure with which they regard the vißit of the King and Queen of Italy to the Austrian Court. THE CONDI riON OF IRELAND. [SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE AOE.J London, 31st October. The magistracy of Cork have resolved to aid the Government to the utmost of their power in the suppression of the disturbances in their district, and to secure the maintenance of order. Over 200 justices have intimated to the authorities their determination in this respect. Thomas Sexton, member for County Sligo, and a prominent member of the Homo Rule party, is seriously ill, and his condition is such that his medical advisors have no hopes of his recovery.