CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2575, 8 July 1882, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

ENGLISH «fe_EOSBIGN. [eetitee’s teleoeams.] LONDON, July 6. Mr Gladstone, in reply to a question put to him in the House of Commons today, stated that the. Government did not intend to propose a war credit at present, as existing facts did not justify sueh a request. Arrangements have now been completed by the French and British Governments for despatching an allied army to Egypt. The first corps is to consist of 25,000 men, and of this number England contributes 15,000. Consols remain at 99-£, and Now Zealand securities at the following quotations : —Five per Cent. 10-40 Loan, 106; Five per Cent. 1889 Loan, 106 ; Four and a Half per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan, 102. The Bank rate of discount is unchanged at 3 per cent., and the market rate at 2£. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of Englandis£l2,7so,ooo, b0ingJ81.375,000 less than the reserve of last Thursday. Adelaide wheat is unchanged at 51s, ex store, and Now Zealand ditto at 495; Adelaide flour, 355. Best selected transparent kauri gum has declined to £lO. July 7. The police have arrested a laborer named Carey on the charge of murdering the late Dr, Kenny in Dublin, on the 4th inst. Deceased it has been ascertained was formerly physician to the Irish Land League. The prisoner made a desperate resistance, and bis capture was only effected with difficulty. ALEXANDRIA, July 6. In consequence of the threatening aspect of the present position of affairs, all tho English subjects still in Alexandria are hurriedly leaving the city, and are embarking on vessels in tho port. Sir Beauchamp Seymour has received to-day from tho Egyptian Minister of War a reply to*hia ultimatum. In his communication Arabi Pasha refuses to admit that tho British Admiral has any ground for complaint. The situation as yet is unchanged, and a serious state of tension still continues.