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Grey River Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 4495, 18 January 1883, Page 2

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London, January 4. The people of Eastern Roumelia, which now forms a province of Turkey under a Christian Governor-General, are agitating for the formation dfth&t province into an independent nation. It is now authoritatively denied that the envoys from the Queen of Madagascar were subjected to surveillance or treated as prisoners during their stay in Pari3. It is reported that the wife of Archduke Rudolf, of Austria, has been threatened, snd a gang of Italians have been arrested on a charge of conspiring to murder the Prince. M. Leon Say, late French Minister of Finance, is prostrated by a severe attack of gout. The Danube is still flooded, that river having inundated various towns upon its banks. Seventy persons have perished bj drowning since the flood commenced. An English agent having visited the Vatican and had several interviews with the Pope, asserted that he represented England in a eemi-officia! way. Mr Gladstone, however, emphatically denied that the Government have in any way entered into communication with the Court of Rome. The matter haa created great sensation in England, and Mr Gladstone's denial i 3 questioned in a good many quarters. Amongst the troopa ordered to return, home from Egypt are the remaining bat* talions or the Highland and Irish brigades, and, they are now under orders to start immediately. A fatal affray is reported to have occurred at Alexandria between some Turkish and Egyptian members of the police force ; several deaths resulted. January 14, England ha 3 disclosed to the Porte a scheme tor Egyptian reform. The King of the Belgians is suffering from gastric fever. One hundred Gambettists have joined the Radical Left, and sixty have joined the Left Centre. The remains of Gambetta have been inn terred in the family vault at Nice. A dynamite cartridge has been thrown into a receiving box in the Limerick Post Offica, but an explosion was prevented. Mr Carey, aDubhn 00-jneillor, has been arrested for the murder of an informer. The Right Ho« Lord Gifford, V.C., Colonial Secretary for Western Australia, has been appointed Colonial Secretary for Gibraltar vice Major-General Baynes, who was dismissed early in December for having approved of the surrender to Spain of two refugees from Cuba.