ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2233, 25 April 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABLE NEWS.

[KEUTEB’d TELEGRAMS.] LONDON, April 22. Home Quotations.

Consols have advanced to 101],- (sic) 1 Five per Cent. New Zealand 10-40 Loai has advanced to 103 i; Five per Cent 1889 Loan remains at 106; Four and a Half per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan has advanced to 100-J; best Scotch pig iron, No. 1, f.o.b. in Clyde, unchanged at 495; galvanised iron, 26in. guage, £l6 10s: best Sydney copra, per ton, £l4 os; Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 50s; Now Zealand wheat, ex ship, 465; Adelaide flonr, ex warehouse, 345. Wheat. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Groat Britain is 2,550,000 quarters. April 23. ’Frisco MailsThe homeward Australian and New Zealand mails, via San Francisco, which left Auckland on March Ist, were delivered hero to-day. Not I, Sir. The Bey of Tunis has addressed a communication to the Powers, in which he disclaims all responsibility for any outbreak of fanaticism which may take place in the Principality in the present excited state of the people over the action of the French in Algiers. ATHENS, April 23. Greek Meeting GreekA difference has arisen in the Greek Cabinet, and the Minister of War has resigned. M. Voltmos has been appointed to the vacant portfolio. CALCUTTA, April 22. Exit John BullNews has been received from Candahar to the effect that the evacuation of the city by the British force which was stationed there has been completed. The town and district are now under the control of the Ameer’s Government. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 22. Turkey. Despatches have boon received from Dervish Pacha, commanding the Tnrkith troops in Western Roumelia, stating that the advance of his troops has been forcibly opposed by a body of insurgent Albanians at the river Vardan, and that, an engagement has taken place at Uskup, resulting in the defeat of the rebels. April 23. Oh! Scissors. Four domestics of the Taheragan Palace have confessed that the Sultan, Abdul Aziz, who was believed to have committed suicide on the 4th of June, 1876, by stabbing himself with a pair of scissors, was murdered by themselves. The confession of the assassins implicates several prominent public officials in this city.