ENGLISH & FOREIGN

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2673, 31 October 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

[rehter’s telegrams.}

Received October 30th, 2 p.m,

LONDON, October 28,

The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,810,000 quarters. Best sides of Australian hides are dull at lid, not Hid as telegraphed yesterday. There are no changes to report in the Money Market or in colonial produce. Sir Garnet Wolseley arrived in Bon don to-day. Mr Gladstone, the Duke of Cambridge, Earl Granville, and a distinguished company met him. As he alighted from the train and as he drove away from the station ho received a great ovation from a large crowd that had assembled. Further heavy rain has fallen over England, and fresh floods have been caused. The Thames Valley is now immolated, and serious destruction of property has resulted.

Ah amendment to the cloture proposals lias been moved by Mr Gibson, in the House of Commons, demanding that a twothirds majority should be required to adopt the cloture amendment. He will test the feeling of the House on the whole question, and a division on Mr Gibson’s motion is fixed for Thursday next.

Received October 31st, 1.25 a.m. LONDON, October 30.

Heavy gales have been experienced over Great Britain, and numerous shipping disasters have occurred on the coast.

PARIS, October 30.

An epidemic of typhoid fever has been raging here for some time past. The number of deaths -is now fully 200 weekly, VIENNA, October 28.

Very {heavy storms of rain have been experienced in the south-east of Austria, and alarming floods have resulted in the Tyrol and the province of Carinthia.