CABLE NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 245, 22 December 1887, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. Per Electric Telegraph —Copyright TIIE QUEEN AND TILE POPE. STARTLING NEWS FROM SOUDAN SI’ECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, Doc 19. j Tlio Duke of Norfolk has doliv- i

o.ied the Queen’s Jubilee congratu- I lations to the Pope. His Holiness, . in reply, praised the complete liberty which the Catholics possessed. throughout the Briti.h Empire. Sir Thomas Fraser Groves, the Liberal- Unionist member for AVilton, South Wilts, has becorno a Gladstonian. A disorderly crowd of roughs followed Linnell’s funeral, singing and hooting the police, and an unseemly scone occurred at the cemetery, the service being read in darknoss.

There was a panic on the Vienna Bourse on Friday and Saturday. It is estimated that 200,000,000 francs was lost. State rents have also fallen during the past eight weeks. The Vienna Council have decided to expend 20,000,000 florins for the equipment of theLandwohr reserves and the erection of huts in Galica.

The Delegations hayo not yet summoned.

The Invalide Russo article is con- | sidered to express tlio views of the Czar, and the Daily Nows avers that the Czar specially ordored the publication of it. It is reported that Osman Digna, at tho head of 10,000 men, threaten Suakim. Tho Egyptian Government are sonding reinforcements to that town. Dec 20. The Sugar Bounties Conference propose that an absolute guarantee shall be given by the Powers concerned that in future no bounties, open or concealed, shall be granted on exported sugar; and that a system of duties according to the quality of tho sugar produced, destined for foreign consumption, shall bo substituted.

Tho Belgian duty has been reduced to 25 francs, and several Powers have accepted tlio Belgian system conditionally. Phe colonies interested have accepted tho terms of the convention until tho liual ratification is notified by all the Power concerned. The Sugar Conference has adjourned until the sth April. The Convention undertakes to levy equal duties on all sugars, and will not allow the drawbacks to exceed the duties.

Lord Salisbury in his recent spoecli said that all rulers in Europe were desirous of peace. He denied that the Conservatives were committed to the doctrine of Protection, but declined to oxpress an opinion on Fairtrade till ho had seen in a Bill what was really meant. He also added that the Bounties Conference had given the strongest support to Ereotrade. Union with Ireland was necessary, as a dissolution of tho Empire would result in the loss of India Lord Cairns has been married to Miss Olive Bereus. The Rev A. 11. Maekonochie died from exposure in a snowdrift in Kinloch Forest. Tho shares in the Now Zealand Gold Extraction Company arc now boing allotted. It is reported that Sobranje was asked for a credit vote to purchase 100,000 repeating rifles. reuter’s telegrams. Suakim, Dec 20. Nows has reached here that Osman Digma, with a large force of rebels, is in tho vicinity of Handoiib.