TELEGRAPHIC

Evening Star, Issue 5914, 23 February 1882, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter's Telecjrams.] SIR H. PARKES'S MISSION. LONDON, February 21. The ' Times' to-day publishes a telegram stating that Sir Henry Parkes is already convinced that the reduction of the United States tariff ■on wool is at present impossible, but that he is hopeful that the American Government may be induced to contribute towards the Australian mail subsidy, though the proposal has up to the present time met with strong opposition. WASHINGTON, February 21. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, arrived in this City to-day from New York. M. ROUSTAN TRANSFERRED TO WASHINGTON. PARIS, February 21. M, Roustan, lately French Resident and Consul-General in Tunis, has been appointed French Minister to the United States at Washington; ELECTION OF MR DAVITT FOR MEATH. LONDON, February 22. Mr Davitt, one of the prominent Land Leaguers, has been elected without opposition to the vacancy in the representation of Heath in the House of Commons. GENERAL SKOBELOFF. ST. PETERSBURG, February 22. The Russian Government have ordered General Skobeloff to proceed without delay to this city.

The following late cablegrams have appeared in the Sydney papers : Government have yielded to the protest of the military authorities against a scheme for constructing a submarine tunnel from Dover to Calais, and will reconsider the subject. Bishop Haltz and the Roman Catholic cleigy of Bath have invited Patrick Egan, who fled from Ireland to France, to return and contest the electorate of Meath in the room of Mr Mulliwan, who retired. Proposals have been brought forward by Mr Gladstone in the House of Commons for the adopting of a modified form of cloture, in order to prevent an obstruction in Parliament. The proposals are being received With more favor, and the Government now expect a majority on the question. Before the motion for the adoption of an Address in Reply to the Queen's Speech was finally disposed of in the House of Commons an angry debate took placpon the relations between the English Government and the Vatican, The Government asserted that there was no truth in the statement that Mr George Errington, member for Longford, had been sent on a mission to Borne for the purpose of establishing more direct relations with the Vatican, as had been currently reported. The Opposition, on the other hand, alleged that such was the object of Mr Errington's mission, and moreover, that his expenses were paid fluj; qf the Secret Sprvipe Fund. The Prince of Wales has presented to the Queen the special report of the Commission in connection with the late International Exhi-

bition at Sydney, whichww ptm&*i&mpared specially for presentation io HerMnj«K» The sura of LBOO has been JubMT&ed at N*w York for the relief of Russian tows. Belief meetings have been held at PhilidelpbJSjt&d the Mansion House Fund now stanrU LS<XOOO. Alarm have been ofjg§*3 by the explosion of infernal tnaenfees in fmpraMi in Edinburgh, by which eight pewjSFwew seriously injured. The police have aafttted one man for being concerned: in the outrfffV " The Marquis of Salisbury, in a 4seeoh which he delivered at the Mansion Bine, •poke in support of the movement inaugurated by Lady Bectives to encourage the use of articles of dress of British manufacture with a view to improve British woollen industries.