ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2719, 27 December 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright. [reuter's telegrams.] Received December 20th, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, December 25. Sir Charles Dilke enters the Cabinet as President of the Local Government Board, to which position he has been appointed vice Mr Dodson, who has accepted the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, resigned by the Right Hon. John Bright in August last. It has transpired that the Governorship of Jamaica has been offered to but has been declined by Sir Arthur Gordon. The Irish newspaper " United Ireland'' has been seized by order of the Executive, and a prosecution has been instituted against the editor for publishing articles of a seditious character. Received December 27th, 0.50 a.m. LONDON, December 26. Consols are unchanged at 98£; New Zealand securities are firm at last quotation. The market rate of discount has advanced |-, and is now 4 per cent. The bank rate is 5. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,300,000 quarters, being a decrease of 3000 quarters during the week. Adelaide flour, ex store, remains at 495, and New Zealand ditto at 43s 6d to 46s 6d ; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 34s ; Australian tallow is unchanged at 42s for best beef and 44s and 6d for best mutton. « I

PARIS, December 24. A French expedition to Tonquin will in the first place only consist of a detachment of 750 troops, but the force will, it is expected, he increased later. | SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received December 27th, 0.45 a.m. LONDON, December 26, 6.5 a.m. The International Exhibition at Calcutta will open on December 4th, 1883. Two hundred and twenty branches of the Irish Land League in Ireland and America have been invited to amalgamate.