HOME AND FOREIGN.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 970, 11 December 1882, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[REUTER—COPYRIGHT.] (SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, Dec. 5. The Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Durham are each mentioned as likely to succeed the late Dr Tait in the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, Judge O’Brien, in his opening at the Assizes, referred principally to the crimes committed quite recently, and said the effect would be ruinous to Dublin. Arabi Pasha, in a letter to the Times, cheerfully refers to the sentence passed upon him, and states that he is conscious that the English Government will complete the reforms in Egypt which he commenced. He thanks the English Government, the Press, and the people for the generosity extended to him. [renter—COPYRIGHT.] (Received Dec 9, 1.15 a.m.) CAIRO, Dec 7. Riaz Pasha has resigned his seat in the Cabinet in consequence of the , eniency which has been shown to the j,ebels. It is probable that he will be succeeded by Nubar Pasha. It has been decided that Arabi and his accomplices, whose sentence of death have been commuted to exile for life, are to be deported to Ceylon, arrangements to that effect having been arrived at with the British Government. (Received Dec 11, 1.30 a.m.) PARIS, Dec 9. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, M. Duclerc, Premier, stated with reference to'the proposed establishment of a French protectorate over Tonquin, that the sum of nine million francs would be required to carry out the project, and announced that be would shortly ask the Chamber to authorise the appropriation of that sum to defray the expenses in connection with the expedition,