ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2702, 5 December 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

By Electric Telegraph — f optright. [reuter’s telegrams.] A NEW EARLDOM. MEETING OP THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. THE ENGLISH TUNNEL QUESTION. OPENING OP THE NEW LAW COURTS BY THE QUEEN.

Received December sth, 2.20 p.m., LONDON, December 4, evening.

The new London Law Courts were opened to-day by her Majesty the Queen in state. A large number of notabilities, and an immense concourse of people, were present* and the proceedings passed off with great eclat.

Mr T. M. Healy, M.P. for Wexford, one of the leaders of the Irish National League, has been summoned to find securities for his good behaviour.

[special to press association.] Received December sth, 11.40 a.m. LONDON, December 4. Parliament has been prorogued to the 15th of February. Lord Chancellor Selborne (late Sir Eoundell Palmer) has been raised to an earldom.

The Khedive bas amnestied all minor offenders.

The United States Congress meets on Monday. The President’s Message urges the necessity for a revision of the tariff* and an increase in both the army and navy. It also supports the proposal to render more suitable the tenure of officers in the public services. John Day, the well-known trainer, is dead.

Arabi Pasha exhibited a calm dignity throughout his trial; but the E uropeans in Egypt are highly indignant at the farcical proceedings. The natives rejoice greatly at the result, and the English Press highly eulogises Lord Dufferin’s tactics in the matter.

M. Grevy, in replying to a deputation of English Unionists, said he believed the completion of a tunnel between Prance and England would be productive of the happiest results, but the decision as to whether the tunnel project should go on rested with England.