BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6533, 3 February 1882, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuteb'b Telegbams.] SIR CHARLES DILKE'S POLITICAL VIEWS. LONDON, Jan. 31. Sir Charles Dilke addressed a large meeting of his consituents at Chelsea this evening, and in the course of his speech he alluded to the negotiations which he had carried on in Paris, in regard to the Anglo-French commercial relations, and stated that he was hopeful that a treaty would yet he concluded between the two countries. In reference to Egypt he announced that the Government were determined to maintain the control which it had assumed in conjunction with France over the affairs of the Khedive's dominions. THE EGYPTIAN DIFFICULTY. CAIRO, Jan. 31. The difficulty between the Chamber of Notables and Cherif Pasha, the President of the Ministry, is still unsettled. It is now known that the latter is not in accord with his colleagues in regard to the points in dispute. And it is further known that Arabi Bey, the chief instigator of the military outbreaks of last year, and who was recently appointed Minister of War, has visited the President of the Notables to demand that his Chamber should adhere to its original claim for the supreme control ef the Budget, in place of the amended decision recently come to in favour of power to vote the Budget being held jointly by the Notables and the Ministry. The situation is deemed most critical, and it is expected that Cherif Pasha will resign the Presidency of the Council in order to avert a fresh military outbreak, which seems likely to occur if he insists on his refusal to agree to the demands of the Notables. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, Jan. 31. Consols have further declined } to 99|; New Zealand securities and Colonial breadßtuffs are without quotable ohange. Australian tallow —best mutton ia at 48s; best beef, unchanged at 42b. Best Scotch pig iron, No. 1, free on board in the Clyde, has declined to 50s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Limited, have received the following:— LONDON, Jan. 31. Wool. —Market unchanged. Up to date 84,000 bales have arrived. "Wheat. —Market quiet. New Zealand is worth 53s per 4961 b. ' Tallow. Market quiet. Best mutton is worth 465; best beef, 40s per cwt.