ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2544, 3 June 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

[reuter’s telegrams.] LONDON, June 1. The New South Wales Loan of. £2,000,000 has been placed on the market. Tenders must bo at a minimum of £lO2. June 2. In the House of Commons last night Sir Charles Dilke, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, stated that ho believed that all the Powers will accept the proposal to hold a conference for the consideration and settlement of the Egyptian question, though no definite decision has yet been come to. It is further announced that information has been received that the Egyptians had commenced constructing earthworks around Alexandria, and that the Government were in consequence consulting with Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour, Commander of the united squadron, as to the coarse to be pursued in regard thereto. CONSTANTINOPLE, June L The Turkish Commission of Inquiry into the state of affairs in Egypt leaves to-day for Alexandria on board one of the Turkish ironclads. NEW YORK, Juno 1. Fully 50,000 ironworkers are now on strike at Chicago, New York, and other cities in the States.

Intelligence is to hand from Chicago that a largo body of iron workers, who aro on strike, boarded a train and severely maltreated a number of non-strikers. The disturbance was of a serious character, and was only suppressed by police intervention.