LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3800, 19 September 1883, Page 3

LONDON.

September 11. Lord Dufferin has been re - called to Stainboul by the Bulgarian difficulty. All the mortgages on Mr Parncll's Irish estates havo been paid off by public subscription. The report that Lord Lyons was recalled proves incorrect. The French army has only met with doubtful success in Annam, and now awaits reinforcements. Disturbances have occurred at Woochang.

September 15. An international exhibition at the Crystal Palace next April is projected, under the auspices of Mr Levy, but a large scheme for an exhibition at Kensington is also afoot. t The Agent-General has convened a meeting of the same committee which acted in regard to tho Melbourne Harbor Trust Loan°to consider tho data collected as to tho best type of dredges. The Standard considers tho danger of foreign convict establishments in the Pacific as sufficient to justify the attitude of the colonies in regard to annexation, and condemns Lord Derby's despatch as cold, curt, and unsympathetic. Tho colonies are only asking what is essential to their welfare, and this the Government with gratuitous unkindness refuses to givo them on account of political pedantry. After the recent fighting in Annam, the French authorities beheaded thirty Black Flag prisoners. Tho Times says if France prosecutes the Tonquin campaign she will probably embroil herself with Europe. Cortachy Castle, near Forfar, has been burned.

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[Rf.uteh's Telegeams.]