The following items appear in Sydney papers : — London, May 2. Ireland is in a very disturbed state, and the number of agrarian outrages is in creasing at an alarming rate. In conse quence of the state of feeling in Dublin, and the violence of the Land League agi tators, the city has been proclaimed under the provisions of the Coercion Act. In tense excitement prevails throughout the city and also the country, as well as a feeling of grave anxiety. It is expected that a number of prominent Leaguers will be arrested immediately. It is also rumoured that Government intends to attack the League unsparingly, and have everyone arrested who is known to be connected with it. A Nihilist manifesto has been placed in different parts of St. Petersburg, lauding the assassination of the late Czar and threatening the life of the present. May 6. Considerable alarm was created by the explosion of a box of powder outside Chester barracks. The explosion was the work of a miscreant not yet discovered. A deputation from the British and In tercolonial Trade Tariff Union, consisting of the Lord Mayor of London (the Right Hon. Mr M'Arthur), Mr Westgarth and Mr Sargood, waited on Earl Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to day, and laid before him a number of im portant suggestions affecting the joint interests of the Mother Country and the Colonies. The deputation suggested the enlargement of the constitution an/d scope of the Royal Commission appointed to in quire into and report upon the defence of British Colonies, and also to inquire into British Colonial commerce, taking evi dence ill all important centres of popula tion throughout the British Dominion upon the operation of the various tariffs in force. Further, the deputation repre sented the desire that the Imperial Go vernment should learn the views of the inhabitants of the Colonies beforehand in all cases where treaties were about to be entered into with foreign countries, the case of the treaty with China being spe cially referred to as one upon which the Colonies should have been heard, inas much as the treaty was found to be a con siderable obstacle in the Australian Co lonies to legislation for the restriction of Chinese immigration. 