BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6536, 7 February 1882, Page 4

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

LONDON, Feb. 3. SHIPPING. Armed—Ship Helen Denny, from Oamartx; sailed Oct. 14. ATTITUDE TOWARDS EGYPT. Feb. 4. Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary has communicated to the Press a denial of the statements which have been current, to the effect that the Anglo-French note of Jan. 8, guaranteeing the maintenance of the Khedive’s authority against disorder, is tantamount to an intimation of the decision of England ' and France to use armed intervention | in the event of anarchy arising in Egypt. THE ANGLO-FRENCH COM- \ MERCIAL TREATY. ; PARIS, Feb. 4. I An agreement was signed to-day by I M. Freyoinet, the French Premier, and | by Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador E- at Paris, for prolonging the present ■ Anglo-French Commercial Treaty until r March 1. J THE NEW EGYPTIAN : MINISTRY. ; ' CAIRO, Feb. 3. Yielding to the pressure of the mili- > tary, the Chamber of Notables has I nominated Mahmoud Barondi Pasha Fre- * Bident of the Council of Ministers. The t Khedive has accepted the nomination, and Mahmoud is now engaged in filling | up the various portfolios of the ► Cabinet. 1 Feb. 4. 1 The following is the constitution of i the new Ministry up to the present time: Mahmoud Baroudi Pasha, President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of the Interior; Mustapba Pehmy Pasha, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Alisa Bey, Minister of Finance. The remaining portfolios are yet unfilled. GUITEATJ SENTENCED TO DEATH. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. The application of Guiteau’s counsel for a new trial has been refused, and sentence has been passed upon him.. He is to be hanged on June 30. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, Feb. 2. Consols, 99i. The total reserve of notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £10,750,000. No changes

to report in tbe market for colonial securities, breadstoffs, or tallow. Feb. 3. Consols are unchanged at 99|. Markets for Colonial securities and produce are without quotable change. Tbe total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 2,810,000 quarters. [Some of tbe above telegrams have been delayed in transmission between Australia and New Zealand.]