BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2766, 3 February 1882, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

■ > ■ ' [ReDTEB’b' AGENOY.J : '[ ’ ■ ‘ CommercM- ,' : 4 ’ ' ! London, Feb 1. Consols have farther declined £ to 99-1. ■ : - . ; • . - ■ New Zealand secuities and colonial breadstuffs are-without quotable change,. Australian mutton - tallow,, beet,, is now at 48s ; best beef is unchanged at 425. Best Scoteh pig ,iron, No 1, free on board the, Clyde, has declined to,, 60g;. Foreign RelationsSir Charles Dilke addressed a meeting of his constituents' at Chelsea, this In the course' of his speech on the he alluded to the negotiations which,he had carried on in Paris in regard to’ Anglo-French commercial relations, and: stated that he was hopeful that a treaty would yet be concluded between the two countries. In "reference to Egypt,, he' announced that Government were determined to ■maintain the control which, in conjunction with France, it had assumed over the affairs of the Khedive’s dominions. Two Many CooksCaieo, Jan. 31. ; ''- ; The difficulties between ,the Chambhr „ of Notables and.Cherif;Pasha, President pf the Ministry, are still unsettled. It is now Known that the latter is not in accord with his colleagues iu regard to the points in dispute, and it has further, transpired that Arabi Bey, the chief instigator of the military outbreak v pf last year, - and who was' recently appointed Minister of Whr, ; has visited 1 the president of Notables to demand ; that bis Chamber should adhere to its 1 Original claim for supreme control of the Budget in place of the amended do-' eision recently come to in favor of the power to vote the Budget being jointly held by the Notables and the Ministry. The situation is deemed most critical, and it is expected that Oherif Pasha will resign , the- Presidency of the Council, in order to avert a fresh v military’outbreak, which seems likely to occur if he insists on his refusal to agree tathe demands of the Notables. "