YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Evening Star, Issue 7831, 12 February 1889, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

"Home and Foreign. It is expected that the French Senate will reject the scheme for the revision of the Constitution. The United States Government are j insisting on a cessation of hostilities in Samoa pending tho decision of the proposed Conference. An association is being formed to promote the adoption of the decimal system in Great Britain. The programme put forward by General Boulanger includes the adoption of tho American system for the election of President with a limited term of office. The London l Standard' persists in asserting that tho copper syndicate is about to collapse. It is asserted that Mr W. O'Brien is in a precarious state. Mr Balfour ridicules the idea. A meeting was held in Hyde Park to protest against the treatment Mr O'Brien received, but a snowstorm coming on the assemblage dispersed. The ship Benoon, bound from Hamburg to Sydney, has gone ashore at Schwingen, on the German coast. The crew were saved with di-tficuJ ty. There is but little hope of saving the vessel. Indian advices stele that the Ameer of Afghanistan, with 5,000 troops, is marching on Turkestan. The chiefs of Rajpootana, ouc of the Indian States under British protection, are cordially joining in the scheme of the Imperial Government for the defence of India. Father M'Fadden is charged with complicity in the murder of Police Inspector Martin, who was killed in the riot which followed on the arrest of the priest. The British troops in Burmali have captured a stockade which w?.s defended by 900 Dacoits. Tho British loss was five killed and twelve wounded. The French Chamber of Deputies will discuss the question of tho reform of the Constitution on Thursday. Ellenouissi, the Mahdi's rival, has captured Elobcid. The Egyptian Government are becoming alarmed at his progress. ■»- ♦ ■