HOME AND FOREIGN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1071, 3 November 1882, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

In both Houses of Parliament a vote of thanks to the army engaged in Egypt was passed without opposition. In the course of the debate which took place in the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone warmly eulogised the conduct of officers and men of the British and Tnlian forces during the campaign. The Premier announced that the Government would shortly propose that annuities should be granted to Sir Garnet Wolseley and Sir Beauchamp Seymour for their services. Owing to the recent statement of M. Deves, Minister of Justice, that the Government possessed evidence of a widespread revolutionary organisation now permeating Franco, much alarm has beeu created throughout the country. At Lyons a panic has arisen through fears that a Socialist rising there is imminent. Great excitement prevails in the town, and troops to reinforce the garrison have been sent. All public buildings are now guarded by strong detachments of troops. Further heavy rain has fallen over England, and fresh floods have been caused. The Thames Valley is now inundated, and serious destruction o f property has resulted. Very heavy storms of rain have been experienced in the south-east of Austria, ami alarming floods have resulted in the Tyrol and the province of Corinthia. An epidemic of typhoid fever has been raging m Paris for soma time past. The number of deaths is now fully 2 ; 10 weekly. Heavy gales have been experienced over Great Britain and numerous shipping disasters have occurred on the coast Sir Garnet vl olseley arrived in London on the 30th inst Mr Gladstone, the Duke of Cambridge, Farl Granville, and a distinguished company met him as he alighted from the train, and as he drove away from the station ho received a great ovation from a large crowd which had assembled. The Archbishop of Lyons has received annonymous letters threatening him with death, A fresh discovery of dynamite has been made in London. A Highland gentleman has offered to pay the arrears of rent due in Skye, so as to prevent the eviction of the crofters by a military force. The crofters now offer to compromise for 10 per cent. The steamer Tonki, intended for the Clarance River Trade, has been launched at Blackwall. A Pulman Palace car attached to the Scotch express on the Midland line caught fire and was burned. One passenger was burned to death. M. Clemenoian, the well-known French statesman, has publicly upheld the right of England to refuse to agree to a restoration of the dual control in Egypt. An exciting scone occurred on Monday in Hobson Bay on Board the Norwegian barque Thor, 1000 tons, about to sail for Malden Island. Deserters had been brought on board as the vessel wns on the point of leaving, when they all jumped overboard. One narrowly escaped bomg drowned before he was secured. The water police ultimately captured the others and took them on board again, whereupon the whol« of the rest of the crew refused to work. The ves--1 sol is therefore still detained. I Serious hot winds are being experienced at Adelaide, and the good done by the late rains is being rapidly neutralised The evidence of an officer who was guarding the Courts of Justice at Alexandria at the time of the bombardment inculpates Arabi in ihe burning of the city.