ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2245, 9 May 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[eeuiee's telegrams.] LONDON, May 6. Home Quotations. Consols have advanced to 102;'. The market rate of discount has been reduced to 2 per cent. Bank rate remains at 2£. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, is unchanged at 48s. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,070,000 quarters. Australian best beef tallow has advanced to 34s 6d ; best mutton remains at 365. Imports and Exports. The Board of Trade returns for last month show the imports to have amounted

to £35,200,000, being a decrease of £5,375,000 as compared with the month of April, 1880. Exports amounted to £18,125,000, or a decrease of £500,000 as compared with last year. LONDON, May 7. AmbassadorsIt is officially announced that Earl Dufferin, at present British ambassador at St. Petersburgh, will succeed the Right Hon. G. Goschon as ambassador at Constantinople, after the Tarco-Greek difficulty has received final settlement. The Right Hon. Sir Ed. Thornton, at present British representative in the United States, will succeed Earl Dufferin at the Russian Court. Leadership. The Marquis of Salisbury has assumed tho leadership of the Conservative party in the House of Lords. Mr GladstoneThe Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone is at present indisposed, but his illness is not of a nature to cause alarm. PARIS, May 7. Tunisian. M. Barthelemey St. Hiliare, Minister for Foreign Affairs, made a statement to-day regarding the intentions of the Government towards Tunis. He announced that, after the Tunisian tribe of Kroumirs had been punished by the French troops, the expedition would terminate, and diplomatic negotiations with the Bey of Tunis would follow.