ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2446, 7 February 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

TeBUTEB'S TELKaBAMS.] LONDON, February'3. The MarketsConsols are unchanged at 99f. The markets for colonial securities and produce are without quotable change. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,810,000 quarters. Shipping. Arrived—Ship Helen Denny, which left Oamaru on October 14th. February 4. The Egyptian Question. Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary, has communicated to the Press a denial of the statements which have been current to the effect that the Anglo-French note of the Bth ult., guaranteeing the maintenance of the Khedive's authority against disorder, is tantamount to an intimation of the decision of England and France to use armed intervention in the event of anarchy arising in Egypt. PARIS, February 4. The French Treaty. An agreement was signed to-day by M. Freycinet, French Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by Lord Lyons, British Ambassador at Paris, for the prolonging of the present AngloFrench Commercial Treaty until March Ist. February 4. The lillipnt Ministry. The following is the constitution of the new Ministry at the present time : Mahmoud Baroudi Pasha, President of the Council of Ministers, and Minister of the Interior; Mnstapha Fehmy Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Alisa Bey, Minister of Finance. The remaining portfolios are yet unfilled. WASHINGTON, February 4. The Assam's Fate. The application of Guiteau's counsel for a new trial has been refused, and sentence has been passed upon him. He is to be hanged on the 30th June.