HOME AND FOREIGN.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 5365, 9 December 1885, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(Received December 8, at la.m.) TEE HOME ELECTIONS. London, December 7. j The latest election intelligence announces the return of the Right Hon. Gr. j Osborne Morgan for Bromfield, or thje eastern division of Deribigshire. ; Mr Healy has been elected for South. Derry. The Right Hon. C. Stanhope and Mr Albert H. G. Grey have been re-elected for Horncastle and Tyneside respectively. (Received December 8, at 2.45 p.m.) The Liberals have now secured 315 seats, while the Conservatives and Parnellites combined have returned only 320 members. The Right Hon. Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, has been re-elected for Earlin division, Middlesex, defeating Gordon Hogg by a large majority. John Fender has been defeated for Wick by the second Liberal candidate, Wallace White. For Walthamston' division, Essex, Barring, the Conservative candidate, has been defeated by Buxton. . (Received December 9, at 1. 30 a. m. ) TROOrS FOR EGYPT. December 8. In view of the unsettled state of affairs in Upper Egypt, three battalions of British troops are under orders to procee|d to Wady Haifa. i SALISBURY WILL MEET PARLIAMENT. : It is generally understood that whatever is the final, result or ..the; elections Lorjd j Salisbury will meet Parliament, and submit a: programme of th^, reforms contemplated by the Conservative party. THE POSITION ON THE NILE. Cairo, December 7." In consequence of the threatening . attitude assumed by the natives .ot Upper Egypt, General Stephenson has ;been appointed to the command of the British forces at Wndy Haifa, and another regiment is about to proceed to reinforce the troops already there.