Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
House of Commons-New RuIes

| LONDON, February 10th-The rules pre-
! scented by the Speaker in the House Of Com
mons to govern the conduct OF urgent bust.
ness provide that when, ia the opinion of the
| Speaker, it is the general sense of the House
! that any debate should close, he is empowered
/ to inform the House of his opinion, where
upon, if a motion be made that the question
| be now put, such motion shall be Immediately
| put, and if carried by tie OF three to one
! then division on the main question shall be
/ Immediately taken. The other rules are to
! the effect that speeches on motions for an adj
/ iournment of a debate shall be strictly
confined to the subject of adjourn
ment; that the Speaker may decline to
put motions for adjournment If he
consider that they are proposed for the pur
pose of obstruction that no members can
move or support q motion for adjournment
more than once in one debate; that the
| Speaker may direct q member TO discontinue
his speech if irrelevant or consisting of tedi-
Gus repetitions that no discussion shall be
taken on motions that the Speaker do leave
the chair and that the House do now pro-
coed to consider bill. and that the Speaker
may order division by rising and sitting. so
as to avoid the delay of the present system.
The same rules win be applicable when the
House is in Committee of the Whole, with
the exception of The one providing for closing
debate
LONDON, February 10Th. = Sir Henry
Wolff, Conservative, asked in the House to-
day whether the Irish protection Act would
apply to foreigners. Forster replied 10 the
affirmative, adding that under former acts of
the kind citizens of the United States had
been arrested. Wolf then inquired if those
citizens were not tried by public tribunals
Forster requested notice to be given of this
question. The Home Secretary declared that
if other ticket-of-leaye men acted as Davitt
had they would be sent to prison again.
Frightfni state oF Affairs.
ST. PETERSBURG, February 105h.-The dis
tress is so great among the Ural tribes that
they are selling male children for grain and
leaving the girls to perish.
Mast Fight Their Way.
DURHAM, February 10th-Gereral Colley
says that reinforcements must fight their way
to his camp.
Cattle Lest by Floods.
MADRID, February 1oth.-Eighteen thou
sand cattle have been lost by floods in the
Province of Seville.
The Basutos Defeated.
CAPE Town. February 10sh.-The Basutos
have been defeated at Mazurn with heavy
loss.
Rescued Survivors.
HALIFAX, February l0th.-Eleven passen-
gers, the purser and two of the crew of the
steamer Northern Light have arrived at
Georgetown, Prince Edwards Island, from
Cape Sharp. All are badly frost bitten, be-
ing twenty eight hours on the ice. They re-
port the steamer surrounded by ice Two
boats will go to her aid oday.
Flood I'm Canada.
TORONTO, February 10th.-A Port Stanley
dispatch says, A bridge across Kettle creek
has been carried away by the ice The ship
ping in the harbor is also damaged. People
in the low-lying districts of London are pre-
pairing for food. The carpets are ali up
and everything perishab!e moved to the up
per stories.
Unprecedented Snow fall.
WINNIPEG. February 1Oth.-The snowfall
for the week ending last night was altogether
unprecedented, the amount being 49, 26inches.
Corpse shipped as Poultry.
MONTREAL, February 10th.-A box for
warded from st. Phillips contained decom-
posed corpse. No clue has been discovered of
the shipper.