England and France.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 87, 6 October 1894, Page 2

England and France.

A CHANGE IN THE APPEARANCE OF AFFAIRS. (PBE PUBS* ASSOCIATION.) London, Octobers Admiral Fauo, superintendent at Portsmouth, has been in consultation with tho managers of tho dockyards. It is reported that he has been ordered to hurry on the completion of the new ships and the repairs to those in dock. The Stock Exchange is excited, Consols are weak at 101. Colonial stocks have fallen \ to 1} in sympathy. Tho Paris correspondent of the Times says French politicians are strongly adverse to the establishment of British Zollverein, fearing it would still further strengthen the ties between, tho colpqies and the Mother Country. The Ministers have resumed their holidays. It is alleged that tho intention of England to increase the Chinese squadrons is a concerted plan on the part of England and Russia to enforce Japanese to adopt moderation in their operations against China, and to prevent collapse of the Chinese Empire. Pabis. October 4. The Journal Des Debars says the retoutiou of Egypt i« the only question which can endanger tho peace of France and EnglandThe British Charge d 1 Affaires, aftor a cordial interview with M. Hauqtaux, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, deplares. thai every difficulty was perfectly susceptible of settlement. Tho Ereqch Cabinet meeting was simply for the purpose of signing Baron Courcel's appointnient as Ambassador to London.