ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2642, 26 September 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

By Eleoteio Telbobaph—Oopxkiqht. [BBUTBB’B XBLHQBAMS.y Received Sept. 26, 1 p.m. LONDON, September 25. It is now officially announced that Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet Wolseley and Vice-Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour are to be raised to the Peerage for their services in Egypt. NEW YORK, September 25. Heavy rain has fallen during the past few days over the Eastern States, and severe floods in various parts have resuited. Several towns in the low lying districts of New York State are inundated, and there has been much destruction of property. Several bridges have also been washed away by storm waters. [« Anaua " Special, Phk United Pbbss Association.] Received September 26th, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, September 25, 6 a.m. In consequence of tho prevalence of piracy in the Chinese seas, the English Admiralty is arming a number of merchant cruisers. Six are being prepared at Bombay and six at Hong Kong. Tho railway bridge over the Drave, at Essex, a town at the junction of the Drave and Danube, sank gradually as the train passed over it; the couplings of tho carriages gave way, and the rear part of the train was consequently saved. Cairo has been decorated and illuminated In honor of the British occupation. Floods in Italy have destroyed State property to tho amount of twenty-five million francs. Jay Gould has succeeded in obtaining control over the New York Associated

f Press. The fact has caused considerable sensation in commercial and political circles. A number of powerful Native chiefs in the Transvaal threaten to commence a war against the Boers, in order to force the English Government to reannex the country.