CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 12 February 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[By Klectne Telegraph.— Copyright 3 FbKUTEB's TRLBOBAMsI London, February 10. The election to fill the vacancy in the representation in the House of Commons, of St. George's Hanover Square Dm- j •ion, Middlesex, took place to-day, re- ; suit in* in the return of Mr G*sclien, Chancellor of the Exchequer, by an overwhelming majority over Mr Haysman, the Badical candidate. The poll- ; was as follows: -Mr Goschen, 5,702; Mr Haysman, 1.64&. m \ At the banquet given last night by t.ne Associated Chamber of Comraenxv Sir J. Ferguson, Under-Seoretary for Foreeign affairs, expressed an opinion that a European war wa« unlikely to break out at present. . . A letter from Mr John Bright, -in reply to a communication from Mr J . puNorton, it Wished in the morning papers. The writer- expresses a hope that the Soudan* expedition will be the last occasion in, which Australia would join -in war* where her interests were not immediately affected. The report that Lord Dunraven had resigned his appointment as Under-: Secretary of State for the Colonies has; now been officially confirmed. It isunderstood that the resignation has beta caused by the difference ot opinion which exists between himself and Lord Salisbury on Several important questions. Th» French Chamber of Deputies has voted thirty million francs for increasing and improving the French navy. Th* Associated Chambers of Commerce' have resolved to urge Mr C«cjl Bailees, the Postmaster General, . to reduce the rates of postage t* the Colonies. ; Basalouta threatens to destroy the forts at Massowah, and in con^equrnc* reinforcements have been despatched ther». Italian accounts state that in the rev cent engagement at Massowah 600 men; were opposed to 10,000 Abyssinian* for four hoars, inflicting terrible loss on the assailants . At a concert given in the Opera House San Francisco, at which Madame Ade« lina Patti was singing! a man, who, is supposed to be a lunatic, threw a bomb at that lady. The only one injured was the man who threw the bomb. The death is announced of Mrs Henry W«od. the popular norelist, aged 67. . Bkbwn. February 9. The pope has issued aaother dispatch to the Koman Catholic electors, and again enjoins them to support those candidates who will support the increase of the Army Bill. ; Paris, February 9. News to hand from Lyons utates that three bombs were exploded to«day at the Palais de Justice in that citj. No danu age was done to the building, but seve« ral persons who participated in the •utrage were hurt. Eight of them were subsequently arrested. Constaxtinoplb, February 9. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff,;. British Special ' "ommissioner. is now confering with the Turkish Government regarding Eiiypt. The principal point of .his proposals is understood to b* the neutralisation of that country. Algiers, February 10. A number of general officers of the French army have left this city to take commands in France. Sereral battalions of troops have also been ordered home.