ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

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ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

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LONDON, February 17.

Consols remain at 100£. New Zealand securities unchanged. Colonial breadstaffs are weak and easier. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 555; New Zealand ditto, 525; Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 41s. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,930,000 quarters. Australian tallow is firm at 42s for best best beef, and 48s for best mutton. February 18. Intelligence is to hand from Paris to the effect that the negotiations which are proceeding for the new treaty of commerce between France and England will probably end in a failure, and it is understood that in the event of such a result the French Government will, after the conclusion ef the existing treaty, simply accord to England the most favored treatment in fixing the tariff on articles of British manufactures. February 20. There is a consensus of English and foreign public opinion that the Czar will disclaim the speech of General Skobeloff to the Servian students at Paris, and will reprimand the General for his action. CONSTANTINOPLE, February 18. Intelligence is to hand from Sofa that a Russian named Gautchoff (sic) has been arrested at that city for endeavoring to foment a disturbance on the part of the Bulgarian inhabitants. NEW YORK, February 20. The panic on the Stock Exchange occasioned by the failure in the wheat and cotton trades has subsided. The state of the money market is improving, and apprehensions of further difficulties are subsiding.