ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2315, 5 September 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[kehtee’s TELEQKA.MS.I LONDON, September 2. The Frozen Meat. The mutton brought to this market in the .steamship Protoa is being sold at an average of G]d per lb. The Markets Consols have fallen -J-, and are quoted to-day at 99. New Zealand securities remain firm, at the following quotations:— Five Per Cent. 10-40 Loan/104; Five Per Cent. 1889 Loan, 102*; Four and a-half Per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 99}. Prices in the wheat market are declining, owing to finer weather. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 575; New Zealand wheat, ex warehouse, 57s 6d; Adelaida flour, ex warehouse, 41s 6d. Total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain, 1,780,000 quarters. Australian tallow has advanced Is per cwt. Best beef, 375; best mutton, 39a. The total stock of tallow in London, 16,200 casks. Best Sydney Copra, per ton, £l4.

At the wool sales to-day 10,900 bales were catalogued, England and her Colonies.

Sir Stafford Northcote made a speech to-day at Sheffield, in the course of which he took occasion to emphasise the importance of maintaining the existing union between England and her colonies. RetrogressiveThe election of a member for North Durham, which took place to-day, resulted in the return of Mr Elliott, the Conservative candidate, in the room of Lieut.-Col. Joicey, the deceased Liberal representative. Shipping. Arrived Ship Weathersfield, from Lyttelton. ALEXANDRIA, September 2. State of the Egyptian ArmyIn consequence of the serious discontent which recently manifested itself in the Egyptian army, and in view of the possibility of a disturbance occurring, Mr E. B. Malet, 0.8., British Minister at Cairo, has sent a mission to the Saltan, asking that Turkish troops and war vessels should be dispatched to thin country in the event of an outbreak occurring. CALCUTTA, September 2. In statu quo. The latest telegram received by the Government of India from Afghanistan reports that Ayonb Khan was, on the 30th of August, still iu the neighbourhood of the city of Candahar, and had made no movement towards opposing the advances of the Ameer’s forces from Khelat-i-Ghilzai,

NEW YORK, September 2. A Bad Look out. A severe drought is now being experienced throughout the States, and ia proving of serious consequence in pastoral and agricultural districts. The want of rain ia also being felt in Canada, where the dry weather has resulted in most destructive forest fires. Numerous farms have been burnt and farming stock and crops have been destroyed.