CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3982, 3 October 1881, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Beutbb's Special-.]

London, October 2. There are no changes to report to-day in the money or produce markets. At the wool sale to-day 8200 bales were catalogued and a fair demand was experienced for various, lots offered.

It is announced that the negotiations between the English and French Com* missioners in regard to the commercial relations of the two countries, which were adjourned yesterday, will be resumed on the 24th instant, when the delegates will reassemble at Paris.

The London Observer of today announces that the British treaty com* missioner when proposing an adjournment of the negotiations which were proceeding at Paris took occasion to give emphatic assurance that they did not feel that either a rupture or suspension of the parleying had arisen, and added that they simply suggested an adjournment to facilitate an ultimate agreement. Paris, October 1.

Telegrams are to hand from Tunis reporting that in consequence of recent success of Arab insurgents in the neighborhood of Kairwau, a large force of French troops is now advancing on that place.

Paris, September 30...

The negotiations which have been pro ceeding in this city since the 19th inst. between the representatives of England and France, on the subject of the commercial relations of the two countries, have been temporarily -suspended, and the British Commissioners are now returning to London in order to confer with the Government us to their future course of action; -

London, October 1. The Times, in a leading article to-day, in referring to the return of the British Commissioners from Paris, states that difficulties have arisen in the negotiations which have been proceeding between France aud England, and adds that the proposal of the former to levy specific import duties on British cottons and | woollens is virtually insuperable, and will preclude any understanding being arrived at.

Capetown, September 30.

Telegrams received to day from Pretoria announce that the Transvaal Volksraad has referred the Anglo-Boer Convention to a select committee to decide upon its ratification or rejection, and that the Volksraad has, in the meantime, adjourned till Monday, 3rd October.

Further telegrams report that General Sir Evelyn Wood has, in view of the delay in the ratification of the Convention, been invested by the Imperial Government with full powers to act in, the event of any emergency, and that the General has ordered active preparations on the part of the British troops in the Transvaal, in order to be prepared for any difficulty that may arise.