THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1601, 30 June 1887, Page 1

THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.

London, June 2J. The Morning Post 10-iday stains with rptjard to the difficulty relating to the Egyptian convention that France has threatened a rupture of relations with I'uikey, and to renew her claims 'o the wardship <d the tidy Places in Syria, if the convention is rallied. The same paper also stales that Russia is demand* mg of Turkey as compmsalion the (fircct jii'i) of affairs in Erzeourn, in Asiatic Turkey, and that the rorte has asked j England whether she will fulfil the

Cyprus convention if Tu» Ui*y. ratifii*s the Egyptian agreement. Later, If the Angln-Turkii-1) Convention is not ratified, Sir H. D. Wo ff will leave Constantinople. Hie ov rt.hrow of Kinmel Pasha, the Omn i Vizier, is expected. Prance offers to safeguard Tuikey against the results which mav ensue from (lie non-ranfic»lion of the convention. June 28. The announcement made in yesterday’s Morning Post regarding the attitude alleged to have assumed by France atid Russia towards turkey’s connection with the Egyptian Convention, and the action of the Pone in regard to Cyprus, is declared to he utterly without foundation

In the House of Commons i-isf night, Sir James Ferguson, Ci'i'er-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, ann naced, in reply to a question, that the Porte bad stfougiy d.-sired that. Dim ratification of the Egyptian cmv-nlion should be postponed until M'-ndey nex', and the Imperial tiove.rnment hnd assented to the pi op --a 1 .

IRISH aPPAIR*

London, June 27. Owing to remark- mad-- bv Cardinal Manning and Archbishop Walsh against the intervention of the V*>ican in Irish politics, the Pope has sti-p-riled the mission of Mon«ignor Pt-i.-iseo to Ireland, which was propose.t nnvin; m His Holiness being dissati fi -t vr 1 1, the attitude of the clergy. In the House of Ci-iuuq ns tc-Jay, ii was m- ved that the operation of the Irish Crimes Bill be limited to three years. After a debate the (notion was rejected by 190 to 119 votes. Mr Gladstone supported the motion.

One hundred ami six eeu heads— Fellows aiH Professors—ot 'he colleges of Oxford and Cambridge have presented eu address to the Marquis of Harliog.on approving of Unionism, and condemning Mr Gladstone and obstruction.