ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2536, 25 May 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[KETJTEB'S TELKGRAMS.I LONDON, May 23

Consols advanced i to New Zealand securities —Fiv« per Cent. 10-40 Loan, 106; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 104; Four-and-a-Half per Cent. 18791904 Loan, 104. Colonial breadstuffs are unchanged. Australian tallow — Best beef, 42s 6d; best mutton, 43s 6d. At to-day's wool sale a good demand was again experienced, 9,200 bales being offered. To-morrow being tbo Queen's Birthday all markets will be closed. The homeward mails via Brindisi, which loft Melbourne on the 13 th April, were delivered in London to-day. The Australian crickoters are going to Epsom to-morrow to witness the Derby. LONDON, May 24. The following is the result of the Derby, run at Epsom to-day : Shotover - - - - 1 Quicklime - - -2 Sachem - - - - 3 The death is announced of Sir John Holker, agod fifty-four. The deceased was Attorney-General in tho last Beaconsfield administration, and was in January last appointed Lord Justico of Appeal. Tho reports which havo boou current to the effect that Mr. Parnoll intended to resign his seat in Parliament are now declared to be without foundation. Per Morchaut Shipping and Underwriters' Association : Arrived Ship Lady Jocolyn, from Lyttolton; Jessie Roadman, from Bluff. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 23. Further communications have passed between the Porte and the Ambassadors of England and Franco on tho subject of tho despatch of the scpiadrons to Alexandria. Satisfactory assurances havo been givou, and tho Sultan has boon apprised of tho fact. The Grand Vizier, it has transpired, has promised if tho squadrons are now withdrawn that they shall bo called upon to return, in the event of any necossity for their prosence in Egyptian wators arising. CAIRO, May 23.

It has transpired that the informal parleying, which was proceeding with a view to bring about the termination of tho existing crisis, has failed. Mil inters aro actively nndormining and inflaming tho country, and decline to negotiate with foreipn consuls, unless tho French and English equadrons are withdrawn.