, 1881-03-06

! ness. His friends say he will take little par'
| in public business, but will probably intro
I duce the Lapd bill.
THE cANDAHAR DEBATE,
wholly false, was made to influence the
country, the London upper classes
excepted. Lord Lytton and the ex-
Ministers made extraordinary efforts to ex-
cite demonstration against the Government,
collecting brilliant audience, and using the
press in LondQn and the provinces to create
excitement, thus seeking to revive
failed, the Government being un-
shaken In its determination to retire
from Candahar at the earliest suitable mo-
ment. The public reiterates its condemna-
ton OF the Afghan policy OF the late
Ministry. The majority for Lord Lyt-
TOMS motion was twenty less than
was expected, though including seventeen
nominal Liberals. The. debate on the ques-
ton OF the retention or abandonment Of
Candahar has excited an unusual amount Of
interest At its close
A CURIOUS INCIDENT OCCURRED.
After the division. In which the Government
was beaten by 50 votes, al. unexpectedly
large majority, as the Conservative majority
IN the Peers is only IS, Lord Beaconsdeid,
apparently in dreamy fit of abstraction,
walked slowly up to the Treasury Bench
as II he were to resume the front
seat he occupied when Prime
Minister. On reaching 1t, and finding
Earl Granville in occupation, he smiled to
himself, quickly turned round, and crossed
the House to the Opposition benches. At this
there was a general laugh. Lord Beacons6eld
himself Joining In the hilarity, thing
never seen before by mortal man. Had the
adverse majority been In the other Chamber
this might have been thought to foreshadow
THE RETURN OF ''ESDYsf1oS"
to his old place. But as things are at present
the move toward the Treasury benches ap-
pears to have been made little too soon.
But who knows?
TIE STOCK MARKET.
Now that the Funding bill has been disposed
of, there Is more activity here than ever
in American securities. 1t is ru1nored
that Gen. George B. Mcclellan
and Mr.. W. ". McFarlane, formerly Of the
firm Of Shipulan, Barlow s. A1cFarlane, are
coming over to London to place the
shares Of an underground railway in
New York. Some opposition to this
project has already been manifested here.
In other quarters it is intimated that AlE
Macfarlane comes out on the personal invi-
tation Of Sir Edward Watkin, with an eye to
some new and mysterious operations in Erie
and Reading.
LARGE PURCHASES OF UNION PACIFIC
shares have been made this week by i'll
vestors who are acting under the adj
vice Of leading bankers and brokers
and on rumor that ". II. Wander
bilt is to accept the Presidency of
the company very shortly. It is stated in
the city that the Atlantic & Great Western
Railroad will shortly be made
part of the Wabash combination, and
the first mortgage bonds advanced per cent
this week on extensive transactions. 1t is
believed here that the American National
debt could easily be funded at 81 per cent.
At per cent even consols rarely touch par,
and never remain there.
THE DARLINGTON IRON COMPANY.
.ssot<I p,2D1oossY n473szit ~, az
LONDON, March st is understood that
the creditors of the Darlington Iron Com
pany will be paid in full, and that the stop
page is only temporary.
EIGHTEEN PERSONS DROWNED.
LIVERPOOL. March 5.-A vessel has been
wrecked Oft Sunderland, and eighteen per-
sons drowned.
LONDON, March 5.-The Newcastle DnizU
Chronicle says: ''Granting that the disorder
known as trichinosis exists, the next most
important inquiry is as to its prevalence, and
about this we have no hesitation in saying (
that there has been recently no end Of exag-
geration. The only alleged instance Of its
appearance in England is still matter of
dispute. and like untrustworthiness hangs
by the reports coming from most other coun- !
tries where the importation Of foreign pork !
is now being prohibited. How foolish the
outcry is, so far as this country is concerned,
may be gathered from the fact that America |
sends annually to- England some zoo, ,0o0, 600 !
pounds weight of hog products, forming, |
next to cotton, the most extensive import |
trade of Liverpool, and yet not single case |
Of death from trichinosis has ever been |
proved to have occurre1jn Great Britain.''