HOME AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 31 October 1882, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[by electric telegraph— copyright.) (BEUTEE's TELEGBAMB.) (Received October 27, 11 a.m.) ..LONDON. - ... • ... October 25." Ike two missionaries, Fortunatus John and John Williams, and the wife of the former, tried by special commission at Sierra Leone for .manslaughter of- a-giri; who was in their service, and whom they flogged almost to death, rubbing pepper into the wounds, and leaving her and her companion, similarly treated, exposed to tlie sun until the one girl died, have been sentenced to twenty years' .imprisonment ;' and- the wife of the other man has also been ■ sentenced 1 to a shorter term as an accessory. •■ Consols have advanced to 102&. . . „ . New Zealand securities, are' 'firm 'at last quotations. ■ "' The market rate.' of ' discount ' has' further fallen £, and is now. at 8£ per cent. Bank rate 5. ' . Australian leather — Best sides '. are worth ll§d. The market is dull. - (Received 0ct0ber. 28, 1.30 p.m.)- „ • ■ ' October 28. ;|: The homeward Australian mails via' Brindisi, which left Melhourne'on .the] 12th September, were delivered to-day.. ' In both Houses, of Parliament to-jday, a'vote of thanks to the .'army "engaged, in Egypt was nassed without .(jpposi-, tion. . ■' ' '' V. • „'■-,.. „, , .;.'■, In" the course of the debate in the House of Commons, Mr; Gladstone warmly -eulogised the conduct; .of i the officers and men of the 1 British and Indian forces during the campaign.' The Premier;; announced that the Government- would i shortly propose that ' annuities should be granted to Sir 1 Garnet .Wolseley and Sir Beauchamp Seymour : f or their services. ' ' •. ■ > - " In the House of Lords to-day Lord GranviUe,' 'Foreign Secretary, in reply'to a question, declined to iaake 1 any.statement the present .tinie as to:ihe'mtenp tiorisof the'Gdvernuierit in regard to the.final settlement : .of aiffairsiri^Egypt. v. (Received 2 p.in.j Oct. 30.) '•_•■' i ■•■' ■ . .Ootober 29/ ' The' total quantity of wheat afloat 1 for Great Britain is 184,000 quarters'.' ' "'■ . Best sides, of Australian, hides are dull at lid, not llsd as telegraphed yester^ day. There are no changes to report in the money market or in colonial produce. . Sir Garnet Wolseley' arrived in London to-day. Mr W. E. Gladstone, ,the Duke of Cambridge, Earl Granvillp, and other distinguished company mot him as he alighted from. the. train, and as he 'drove away from the station he > received a great ovation from the large ■ crowd which had assembled. • '•'['' ' Further, heavy rain has fallen' over England, and fresh floods have been caused. The Thames Valley is.now inundated, and serious destruction of property has resulted. An amendment to the cloture proposals has been moved by Mr Gibson in the House of Commons, demanding that a two-thirds majority should be required to adopt the closure. • The amendment will test the feeling of the House on the whole question, and a division on Mr Gibson's motion is fixed for Thursday next. . . ■ . VIENNA. -October 28. Very heavy storms of rain have been experienced in south- east Austria, and alarming floods have-,resulted in the Tyrol and province of Carinthia. (age specials.) LONDON. October 25. The Imperial Budget, which has just been introduced, shows that the finances of Germany are in a highly prosperous condition. The statement of revenue and expenditure discloses a large surplus, which is estimated to amount to 25,000,000 marks. Arabi Pasha and the Egyptian military leaders are to be tried on an indictment which includes counts charging them with instigating the massacres at Alexandria, Tantah, and elsewhere ; and with having on several occasions violated the laws of war by abusing flags of truce for the purpose of gaining time or improving their position. Count de Hatzfelt, the German Ambassador at Constantinople, has resigned his diplomatic position on his appointment to the , post of Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He will be succeeded at Constantinople by Count Eadowitz. A man named- William Brookshaw has been committed for trial for writing a letter to the Prince of Wales, in which he threatened' to murder his Eoyal Highness. The higher court. have confirmed the sentence of penal servitude for life passed on the woman Gabrielle Fenayron, for assisting her husband in the murder of a man named Aubert, with whom she had formed an illicit Connection. Luoien Fenayi-on, brother of the murderer, who was also an accomplice in the'crime, has had his sentence of seven years' penal servitude entirely remitted.