ENGLISH ITEMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1050, 17 September 1883, Page 2

ENGLISH ITEMS.

[Per Doric at Auckland.] London, July 28. At a meeting in London, called by the Turkish Missions Aid Society, presided over by Lord Shaftesbury, a resolution was passed urging the English Government to press upon the Porte the reforms promised by the 61st article of the Treaty of Berlin in Turkish Armenia.

The Emperor of Germany has conferred the Order of the Black Eagle upon Count Kalnoky during a Visit to Gastein. Sensational rumors were published that the Oomte de Chambord’s illness was caused by poison, but they were emphatically denied by his physicians. The Prince of Wales has publicly expressed his gratification at the success of the Co-operative Wholesale Society. Nubar Pasha is of opinion that the cholera which has devasted Damietta u not genuine Asiatic cholera, and that 'it has not been imported into Egypt. He contrasts it with the epidemic of 1865, and points to the facts of its having almost disappeared from Damietta, where it had its origin, and of its having spread elsewhere with slow and uncertaih steps, instead of at once seizing hold of the entire country, as on the terrible occasion just cited. The British Government has remonstrated against the action of the American authorities in sending back three emigrants alleged to be paupers. The parsons in question were going to join their friends in America, who had promised to take care of them, and produced letters-to this effect upon their arrival. Corporal Hope, of the Bast Kent regiment, was shot dead by Private Thomas Wilson when the latter came off sentry. Wilson said, on being .seized, that he intended to shoot all in the barrack-room, and could give no reason for it. Machine guns, on the Nordenfeldt principle, are being introduced into tbe Montenegrin army. Senor Pedro Carlo has been proclaimed chief of the Government at Quayaquil, with full and independent powers. . Montgomery Clair, President Lincoln’s Postmaster-General, is dead. In connection, with the Luther festival, it is intended to establish a fund.to assist Italians belonging to the Free Church and the Waldensians|whoj are pursuing their studies at Roman Universities.

Complaints are reaching Berlin again from German fishermen in the North Sea.

Alleged excesses by English fishermen ace greatly on the increase of late. A serious quarrel has taken place between Bismarck and the Chambers of Commerce, over questions of commercial and economical policy. In regard to Turkey’s demand to be admitted into the Tripartite Alliance, the Berlin Cabinet has replied, declining .to be bound by a treaty, being of opinion such engagement would be useless. Germany, however, would not refuse moral aid, and if necessary material assistance, to Turkey should circumstances compel the Porte to appeal either for aid or protection. The new Governor of Lebanon informs the Porte that the province is in the went condition through the action of'Rustem Pasha, and improvement is only possible by abandoning his policy. The belief is expressed that the Pasha’s object was simply to secure free play in that region to French influence. "The Office is inviting tenders for 450,000,000 million : bricks, or 1,000 million small bricks, for the fortification of Bucharest, and of the ’ Roumanian frontier on the Austrian side. The question pending between the Porte and British Embassy in regardT to the navigation of the Tigris remains in statu quo. The British Consul at Bagdad complains that the telegrams addressed by him to the British Consul at Bussorah have been refused by the Ottoman censorship, because in cipher. Several cases of cholera are repotted at Rous toff, on the Don. ; ( The French Government have entered into a treaty with the great railway companies to secure strategic lined and facilities for mobilising troops. The transfer of the administration of the Prussian railways to the Empire is contradicted.

A Blue Book, No. 14, containing fifty despatches on Egypt, is published. Some of them refer to a proposal of Signer Man* cini, to arrange for an international police force at the Suez Canal, in case of war. Lord Dufferin says in one of his des-

patches— ‘I have no hesitation in predicting that as a body we can point to a traaquilised Egypt. We shall in the neat future receive the grateful acknowledgments of a free, cheerful, and law pro* tected Egyptian people.”