CABLE NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 4, 5 January 1876, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■-•' - .. ,<-■-.>, .. ..l 7. :,.'-. _ . ;- .. •- ,-. - if, ..-., - '-•• •;,'• LP* 115 ? 1 AlhA.mbßA.,l * i' -\. ' '"''■ '.y ..;,,.. " London' (via Siii^aporp.) The rumbrbd earlier assemb ing of Parliament is aut l oritati veiy contradicted. Lord .Derby, in reply to a quf slion, said the Government would not oppose any.^ arrangement for placing tht*; Suez Canil under thb rasnaetment.ot an Inte national Syndicate, th ugh thejr would not propose it. The object otEoglahd^ action was partly deftnsive and was intendel to prevpnt the preponderance of large foreign influence in the Canal." •..-'.. ,..'.,,-;"; ..;• :';V -_ --■•;-_*• 'In replying to a deputat'on froni the Anti- j Slavery Sopiety,^ Lord Derby said , he was ! quite p-ep »red to alvise the KlieVive to abandon, any scheme . of annexation in Abyssinia .if f uch existed, but the GpvenJni.ht was at rrvs;*nt.not informea on the sub3%ct.r He said further that he Believed thei * recent violktioh pt the' Zanzibail Treaty hy Egypt ihust be due to some misunderstanding, And if Zanzibar requested England's-inter-ference theri^fingland woul 1 encl^vor to p e--B'^rve ,gob.i ! 7reiatiotis' between Eaypt nnd f Zanzibar, arid prevent injustice by either side ■A The;AmeficanCo"greßs opened on the 6. h "Deceti^ieK ' President .Grant's message dis..ap royeii of present recognition "* of the hei igerent tights of.the Cuban insurgents;.tb'ut if paviftca'tiori was. not soon accomplished ' - the PresideuV. would propose ;_ the tfeceflH'ary mea^rts inthe: present session., He recbmmeri'/a the reeumijtionbf ' specie payments 1 in . 1876,. free and secular education, the taxation ' of chiirchpropertiesV and the ieimpdsittbtl of : y. the coffee and tea duties. 1 . ' ' * - At St. George's festival, at St. Pf tershurgh, the Czar, in to sting the Emperors of Austria and Germany referred" to the close »fltiance ; of the three Empires, the s -.le^object of wbich H was the mainteuahce of peace. '* '■'-■' " London, December 20. In a speech Lord Derby said he Belie'vel that ihe Powers were pacified, .but he thought that a solution of jthe Eastern ; question was far distant, and ;that temporary measures, were.a'one.possdble. - ' " Military operations at Perak continue. „J \ '•■■'.;•* 'i- y rpecember2s Tl-fe Powers have invited the co-sigoers to tbe treaty of, Paris to support their scheme' of reform in Turkey. - The 1 Times urge* the adoption, of. the scheme, which is equivalent "to re^cludingthe treaty, y*r -„.._, ..._ - Lord Cam i,rvon, ma d spatch to Qbvernni' Barkly at the C-tpe, virtually withdraws the propoml for a conference, believing that the • , discussion it has provoked has accomplished' tthe object. •''"''. '. ' . •'•" ; . The Ereocli Assembly has terminated the election of. ljfe Senators, 47 of wheni belong '; s fo the-Left* '' • ' - •-■ ■ ... - ; - e J - ' The P;ince of Walea has been eothuiasticaily received q,t Calcutta *. . "' The steftmer.China: arrived " at Qalle from Australia ion the. 23rd December.