CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1113, 3 August 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Age Specials. LONDON. August 2, 7.55 p.m. The House of Lords are persisting in their amendments on the Irish Arrears Bill. It will be dropped for the present session. Parliament will be immediately prorogued, and a fresh session held, when the Bill will be again introduced. The Turkish force for Egypt will start early next week. The Stamboul Conference has agreed to a series of proposals for ensuring the security of the Suez Canal. General Sir Evelyn Wood embarks at Portsmouth on Eritlay, to take the Egyptian command. Government are in possession of official documentary evidence conclusively establishing the fact that Arabi Pasha has throughout been abetted by the Porte.

[Reuter’s Special.] LONDON.

July 31. A regiment of Grenadier Guards embarked to-day for Egypt, and Coldstream Guards do so to-morrow. The Household Cavalry have received orders to embark on Wednesday. August 1.

The Cricket Match between the Australian Team and Liverpool Club, which was to have been resumed today, has been postponed in consequence of heavy rain. Consols remain at par. Colonial breadstuffs continue unchanged in price. Australian Tallow declined Gd, to 445; best mutton remains at 45s Gd; the stock in London to-day is 13,100 casks. Accounts of the English Wheat crop are how more favorable, as fine weather prevails. Reports are to hand from America stating that the crop in that country is expected to be considerably above the average. ALEXANDRIA. July 81. It has transpired that Admiral Seymour has abandoned the proposed bombardment of Aboukir by the British ironclads.

Intelligence is to hand from Ismailia, in the Sues; Canal, that a large force of British marines has been landed there from H.M. troopship Orontes.

CONSTANTINOPLE. August 1. The Conference of European Ambassadors, which decided to terminate proceedings on the 31st ult., in consequence of the declaration of the Russian Plenipotentiary that he would only attend its meeting for the purpose of discussing the question of the neutrality of the Suez Canal, resumed its sittings to-day, M. Ouchon, it has transpired, has received fresh instructions from the Russian Government to rejoin the Conference, and participate in its proceedings. It is understood that the Porte has definitively decided to despatch a body of troops to Egypt, notwithstanding the statement that this course could only be adopted provided the British troops were withdrawn. Five thousand troops are under orders to embark to-morrow. Dervish Pasha will accompany' the expedition. The Porte, in its reply to the communication of the Powers, states it can only proclaim Arabi a rebel after the Turkish troops have landed in Egypt. The English Government notifies to the Porte that the English Government requires that the Turkish troops sent to Egypt should be subject to the orders of Sir Garnet Wolseley.