LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3498, 9 May 1874, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

REUTER’S UNPUBLISHED TELEGRAM. London, April 27. The Suez Canal difficulty has been settled by the submission of Baron de Lesseps. It is probable that the several powers will consider the ftaestion of toll dues. • > v '‘ < ‘ '■ • 1 _ • April 28. 3-fae London-Colonial woo} sales opened this upwards of 7,500 bales- were offered, fort “hulip wools preponderating. The attendance of both Home and Foreign buyers was large, Foreign buyers being especially numerous. The usual eagerness observable at opting day was absent, and prices, compared with last series, show a decline. The arrivals to date are 290,000 bales. 7(mW ed fi i OU k Ho X e ’ Grasra ere, Merope, Zephyr, Columbus, Queen Bee, St. Kilda, *“““*• L “ W ‘“- ° f T “T“1». A S9 1 L - A rivic ball Was given yesterday by the Corporation of London in honor of the Luke and Luchefls pf Edinbtirgh, and was amost brilliant affair. “ ' ’ ■ - ■ 1 fte pmk rate Is fourpw cept,

Tha second day’s wool sales shewed more animation on the part of buyers. Washed wools are Id lower, and half-breds 2d; Cape wools remain unchanged.

.... May 1. Hostilities have been resumed in the Province of Biscay, and the Republicans are gradually advancing. Mr Ward Hunt’s representations, in moving the Navy estimates, as to the unsatisfactory condition of the Ironclad Fleet, occasioned much discussion in the House of Commons. The subject was again debated yesterday, when Mr Childers defended the late Administration. Mr Hunt maintained the views he had previously ex lessed, and said the supplementary estimate! were a necessity; but a large expenditure was not contemplated. ° Tho elections for Wakefield and Stroud were annulled on petition. Mr E, Green, Conservative, had been elected for the former, and Messrs W, Stanton and •», S. Dickenson, Liberals, for the latter. New elections will be held at both places. Tenders are invited for a South Australian loan of one hundred and eighty thousand pounds, bearing interest at four per cent. The minimum, price is fixed at ninety per cent. There is a serious famine in Asia Minor; hundreds of persons are dying daily. May 2. The wool sales are marked by considerable languor, and 2,000 bales have been withdrawn. The merchants have decided to have only four sales this series instead of five, and the next sales to commence August 10. Balme and Co report the decline on fleeces to be a to 2d on scoured, and lambs l^d; on half-breds Id to Bd. Wheat is unaltered, ~.. . _ Bfrlin, April 28. A letter from Count Afnim to Dr Dollinger criticises the ecclesiastical policy of Germany. New York, May 1. ™ overflow of the Mississippi inundated 14,000 square miles of country in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, including a portion of the best cotton plantations. ! . „ Teheran, May 1. i An overflow of the Tigris has caused a flood at Bagdad.