TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 5229, 8 December 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND FOREIGN. j [Rectbr's Tklkorams.] LONDON, December 4. The Chilians hav* defeated the Peruvians and Bolivians at Tarapaca, and are continuing ( ffdnsive operations. They are now blockading Arica. December 0. At the wool sales to-day 8,900 baleß were catalogued. The tone of the market is firm. Brennan, the secretary of the Land League, has been arrested at Dublin for seditions language. Three per cent, consols, 97i; New Zealand 10-5, 5 per cent, loan, 101. The wool sales closed to-day. One hundred and twenty-nine thousand eight hundred bales ware catalogued duriug the series. It is reported that the Emproßs Eugenia is going to Zululand, to visit the place where the Prinoe Imperial fell. PARIS, December 5.

December 0.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs having challenged a vote of want of confidence on the Home polioy, the Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of confidence by a largo majority. The Minister of Finance has proposed new taxes to the extent of two millions sterling, in consequence of deficiencies. ST. PETERSBURG, December 5. The Emperor arrived here to-d*y. December 6.

Two persous have been arrested at Moscow on suspicion of being connected with the reofnt attempt made on the Cz*r's life. Several words previously omitted in transmission show that the railroad to Moscow had been tunnelled, and the explosives fired ns the train passed over. GLASGOW, December 3. Mr Gladstone, in a final speech, vehemently denounced the Government policy, especially on the Avghan war, which he characterised as dastardly.

VIENNA, December 6. The Lower House has passed a Bill for raiding the Austro-Hungarian army to 800,000.

[Special to the Melbourne Herald.]

LONDON, December 5. The French Chamber of Deputies passed & special vote of confidence in Waddington's Government. This will relieve the uncertainty and disquietude which has for some time prevailed. [Special to thb Melbourne Abous,] LONDON, December 5. Referring to the New Zealand loan, the ' Times's' money article questions whether it is for the good of the Colony that its progress should be so exclusively farwarded by borrowed money. There is a severe famine in Upper Silesia.