BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

West Coast Times, Issue 7653, 21 March 1890, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

London, March 19. The success of tho Cape loan is dubious. The Lancashire and Cheshire owners are obdurate ; those of Leicester are yielding. The Hull shipping' trade is largely affected by the strike. Thirty thousand mil! hands Imve been reduced to idleness. Coal is retailed in London at £2 per ion. Great distress prevails among the Liverpool dockers. Obituary — Herber?, the pointer. H.M.S. Goldfinch has sailed for the Australian station. The betting on the University boat race is 7 to 4 on Oxford. Dr Rubie, vicar of Cartmell Fell, has refused (he Archdeaconery of Ballarat. Newfoundland will probably refuse to recognise th? settlement of the lobster fisheries. A French outpost on the Congo ha? been attacked and eleven massacred. The Right Hon, W. H. Smith in a recent speech said Govnument would submit a motion shortly to secure the parlicr closing of the session in (he direction of the Hod, G-. Tavslyan's motion. Mr Goschen favors disolution after Easter. Government were defented by a small majority in an attempt to introduce a clnusp in the rights-of«way Bill applying 1 to Scotlnnd. Thirteen thousand imported laborers are imployed at the Liverpool docks. The strike benefits the Durham and Northumberland colliers, Another anonymous giffof £50,000 toiward the erection of a hospital and convalescents' home hns been received* Lord Churchill refuses to resign owing to the limited character of the censure passed by his constituent". The Duke of Manchester is in a critical condition at Naples. Lord Salisbury will consult his party as to tho best means of expediting the Tithes Bill. The German and Foreign pi ess i 3i 3 full of praise for Bismarck. The French journals consider Bismarck's retirement a guarantee of peace. Le j a excitement is visible in Berlin than olher capital?. The Berliuers' havu great eorifideuue, iv the Emperor. The Bourse is uuaffectcd. Capriai, late chief of the, Admiralty, is montioned as Bismarck?s successor, It is stated fhe differenc^ was chiefly domestic. Prince Bismarck

was, however^ opposed to the Emperor's - 1 'closer?oontract 'with the people. * * 'it has been' discovered 1 the : hoisting s of the British flag in the Shire district < I took place outside the territory which i I England admits belongs to Portugal. Owing to iha stagnation in colonial 1 '. stocks the Queensland Loan is not ex« | pected to exceed the minimum. Paris. March 19. ; The Chamber of Deputies by a | majority of 240 expressed coufideuco j in M. Freyoinet. The Compte de Paris expresses his warm approval of the &»iion of tiie Due d'Orleins. The spirits of the Royalists i are rising. Lisbon, March 19. The Lisbon [jiess vxpress a desire tv ccu j e diplomatic relations with England. A b:ttcr attack is made on fche Priuce of Wale*. New York, March 19. Tho American laundry meu at FribCO coalesced to underbid the Chinese. (Received March 20, 1.20 a.m.) London, March 20. Plutarcl), Narellau and Kirkhain had a gf Hop over the mile at the best pace probably run before Epsom. Surefoot is a j-trong favoute for the Dciby at 7 to 2 (against).