LATE CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5947, 18 March 1880, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS.

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The following telegrams appear in the Sydney papers s London, March 8,

1 Earl Beaoonsfield has advised the Queen to dissolve Parliament after Easter. Tho fsot that this, advice has been tendered. has been formally ~ announced in both Houses of Parliament.- The Liberals express themselves satisfied. In the House of Commons the announcement was warmly cheered by the Liberals. The dissolution takes place on March 23.

Earl Beaoonsfield has addressed an important communication to the Lord , Lieutenant of Ireland,, which has been published, and is regarded as a manifesto of Government. v In this the Premier treats chiefly of the relations -between England and Ireland, and the policy and tactics of the Home Buie party. He claims that the notion of Government .has had the effect of defeating the aims of the Irish agitators both in and out of Parliament. . He lays stress on the promptitude with which Government took steps to afford relief. to the sufferers by the famine in Ireland, and insists that the interests ,of England and Ireland are inseparably connected with eaoh other, and that any disunionmust be calamitous to both.- He also expressed a hope that the leaders of both of the great parties will repudiate the vicious and - absurd claims put forth by Home Eulers, against whom he would warn the people of Great Britain and Ireland, as being actuated by a desire to destroy the essential bond of unity that should exist in,» great nation like oiirs. The Premier also-challenges the opinion of the, country on the , policy, and administration of bis Government. He bolds that the presence end perhaps the ascendancy of England in the great Councils of Europe is essential to the preservation of peace, and this ascendancy, he points out, can only be acquired by imity amongst her own people. ' Wheat is selling at 59s to 60s per 4961b5;0x. warehouseNbw Zealand, at 58s. The corn, market is firm and steady. , The price ;of Australian flour is 42s to 43s per SOOlbs. ; , The Cuzco left Plymouth this evening with 202 passengers and a full cargo.