ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1724, 29 August 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABIiE NEWS.

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. LONDON, August 27. THE AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Emigration schemes are becoming numerous. Eighty Yorkshire farmers have started for Texas. LONDON, August 26. Great Ebor Handicap of £760. Two miles. Isonomy .... 1 Templar - - - -2 Sering - - - - 3 August 27. The rain is ruining the harvest. Princes Bismarck and GortschakofE are quarrelling, hut the Czar and Emperor William continue friendly. An alliance between Germany and Austria is imminent. August 27. The withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England are large. The rate for money in the open market is threequarters per cent under the Bank rate. There has been a heavy fall in railway shares. The corn market is strong, with an upward tendency. American wheat supplies are unusually large. Prices in the wool market are well sustained. At to-day’s sales 9568 bales were offered. [reuter’s telegrams.] LONDON, August 27. The 3 per cent. Consols are at 97i The New Zealand 10.40 5 per cent, are at 1034. At the wool sales to-day 9400 bales were catalogued. The tone of the market is quieter; there is, however, a good demand for fine wools, while inferior and medium are neglected. There are largo withdrawals of gold for North America. £380,000 have been remitted to-day. The homeward Australian and Now Zealand mails, via Brindisi, were delivered to-day. LONDON, August 26. Three per cent, consols, 97-f-; New Zealand 10-40 5 per cent, loan, 103^. Best Australian beef tallow, 335; best Australian mutton tallow, 355. At the wool sales to-day 9000 bales were catalogued. The market is quieter. Lord Chelmsford has arrived in London, and has visited the Prince of Wales. In a letter from the Duke of Cambridge releasing Lieut. Carey from arrest, his Royal Highness censures Trooper Harrison, who was the last of the party who saw the Prince Imperial alive, running beside his horse, and witnessed his inability to mount. Obituary —Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.B. VIENNA, August 27. The successor to Count Andrassy has not yet been appointed. BERLIN, August 27. Count Andrassy is on a visit to Prince Bismarck, who proposes to return the visit at Vienna. These interviews are interpreted as meaning a close alliance between Germany and Austria. PANAMA, August 27. General Grant has accepted the chairmanship of the Company to form a canal through Nicaragua. The Haytian revolution is suppressed.