CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 19, 16 February 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." BKUTEB'S TKLEOBAM9. London, Feb. 14. \ Admiral Hewitt, who h s recently bepn appointed to the command of Souakiai, I has refused permission to the marines of the French and Italian gunboats to land there. In consequence of the critical state of affiirs in the Soudan the English Government are preparing for large shipments of ammunition to Egypt. The Liberal members are urging the Cabinet to use energetic measures with respect to the Egyptian policy. A wedding party, consisting of 30 persons, hare been drowned in the river Theiss, in Hungary. The French Government loan of £14.000,000, which was announced on the Ist Febuary, has been covered fourfold. In an article this morning, the Times comments on the good feeding, loyalty, and attachment which is advanced towards Queen Victoria. C. B. Stuart- Wortley, M.P. for Sheffield in the House of Commons, questions the propriety of the Government in overcrowding emigrants by the ship Warwick Castle. Recieved February 16, 1.25 p.m. Caibo, February 15. The embarkation of troops to be despatched from this city to the Red Sea will commence to-day at Suez, where the transports are now waiting. The ships will proceed without delay, and it is expected the whole force will be at Souakim on Tuesday, the 19th inst. London. February 15. Lord Carlingford, Lord President of the Council, and Lord Privy Seal, introduced in the House of Lords a Government Bill, providing for the exclusion from the United Kingdom of cattle arriving from countries where disease is believed to be in existence. In the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer has given notice of motion for a credit of two millions, to be devoted to defences at Home and Abroad. The debate on the Address in Reply was continued in the House of Commons last evening, but was agnin further adjourned.