ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2247, 11 May 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[beuteb's telegrams.! LONDON, May 9. Home QuotationsConsols havo advanced to 102|-. New Zealand securities remain at the following quotations : —Five per cent. 10-40 loan, 104 i ; five per cent. 1889 loan, ex div.; four and a half per cent. 1879-1804 loan, 101. Adelaide wheat has declined Is per quarter, and is now at 475, ex warehouse. Now Zealand wheat is unchanged at 445, and Adelaide flour at 335. Australian tallow—Best beef remains at 34s 6d, and best mutton at 365, per cwt. To be or not to be. Telegrams have been received from Sofia announcing that Prince Alexander, of Bnlgaria, threatens to resign unless the National Assembly makes radical changes in the system of the government of the country. Hop CropTbe reports from the Kentish hopgrowing districts give favorable accounts of the season's crops. Our Letters Home. The Homeward Australian mails via Brindisi, which left Melbourne on 30th Marcb, and the Homeward Australian and New Zealand mail, which left Auckland on 29fch March, were delivered here to-day. Honor to Disraeli. In the House of Commons to-day,- a motion, authorising thS erection of a monument in Westminster Abbey to the late Earl of Beaconsfield, was after debate carried on a division, by a majority of 326. A similar motion was agreed to in the House of Lords without a division. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 9. French Dignity. It has transpired that the French Government has notified to the Powers that the despatch of Turkish troops to Tunis will be deemed a causa belli. PARIS, May 9. The French Victorious. Intelligence is to band from Tnnis that tho French troops have been successful in their operations against the tribe of Kroumirs, and have now occupied the latter's stronghold.