ENGLISH & FOREIGN

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2222, 11 April 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN

[beuteb's telegrams.] LONDON, April 8. The Markets. Consols, 100-5. The Four and a half per Cent. New Zealand Loan has advanced to 98; the Five per Cent. 10.40 Loan remains at 1021 ; and the Five per Cent. 1889 Loan at 106. Best Australian beof tallow has risen to 34s per cwt.; best mutton is unchanged at 3Gs 6d. Best Australian leather has advanced \d, and to-day is quoted at 10-3-d. The New Minister. Lord Carlingford (formerly Mr Chichester Fortescuo) succeeds the Duke of Argyle as Lord Privy Seal. A Censure Motion. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has given notice in the House of Commons, of a motion censuring the Government for its settlement of the Transvaal difficulty. Wheat Afloat. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,430,000 quarters. Adjourned Parliament. Both Houses of Parliament have adjourned to-day until April 25th, for the Easter recess. Earl Beaconsfield A bnlletin, issued this evening, reports that Earl Beaconsfield continues very weak, and is still in a critical state. PARIS, April 8. The Tunisian Difficulty. Telegrams have been received from Algoirs, announcing that 10,000 troops, despatched from France in view of a difficulty in Tunis, have been landed at Bona, a seaport on the Algerian coast, near the Tunisian frontier. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 8. The Greek Question. The envoys of the powers to the Porte have had under consideration the circular recently issued by the Greek Government, justifying its refusal of the offer made by Turkey for the settlement of tho frontier difficulty. In reply, the Ambassadors have sent a circular note to the Hellenic Government peremptorily notifying as a final decision that it has been determined that the extended Greek frontier shall alone consist of the province of Thessaly, with a strip of country in South Epirus, including the town of Prevesa, on the northern shore of the Gulf of Arta. The note adds, however, that it has been agreed that the fortress of Prevesa may bo dismantled by Turkey before being surrendered.