ADDITIONAL CABLE NEWS.
[By Tblbqkaph.] [Per s.s. City of New York, at Auckland.] LONDON, May 15. Cherif Pasha, who resigned c flics as President of the Council of Ministers in Egypt on February Ist, consequent upon a disagreement with the Chamber of Notables as to the latter exercising control ov-t the Budget, has been re called, and has again accepted the Premiership. The Kueso-Turkish war indemnity convention has been signed. Arabi Pasha, Minister of War, has summoned the reserves of the Egyptian army, in view of a probability of hostilities. There is a general exodus of Europeans from Cairo.
It is announced that the Khedive is reconciled to bis Ministry in the event of the Turkish gens d’armes being landed. The command will be vested in Anglo-French authorities.
Profound sensation has been created throughout the country by the exposure yesterday in the House of Commons of Mr Parnell’s offer to the Government to stop the outrages in Ireland, and to support the Liberal party, on condition that the imprisoned “ suspects ” should bo immediately released, and that a measure was provided for the surrender of arrears of rent. Mr Gladstone denied that such a bargain had been made ; but Mr Forster read letters which had been passed by the alleged contracting parties, Mr Parnell’s offer to stop the outrages is held to make the Irish organisation, with which he has been prominently connected, largely responsible for the agrarian outrages which for so long a time have been frequent in Ireland.
May 17. Sir Alexander Galt, K.0.M.G., High Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada in London, has resigned. The director of the Ring Theatre, Janner, and two subordinate workmen, have been convicted at Vienna for criminal carelessness in connection with the burning of the Ring Theatre, and sentenced, the former to four and the latter to eight months’ imprisonment.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2534, 23 May 1882, Page 3
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