ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 212, 7 September 1891, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Lonbon, September 5. The Antwerp wool sales closed flat ; 8000 bales of Australian wool were sold at from id to |d per lb below the prices realised at the close of the last wool series in London. The situation in the manufacturing di&tricts and on the continent is very bad. A man named Rhodes, employed as a sorter in the London Post Office, has been arrested on a charge of stealing two thousand letters, from which he abstracted in the aggregat3 a sum of £2000 as well as a large number of cheques and post office orders. Mr T. Burt, M.P. secretary of the Northumberland Miners Association, will preside at the Trades Union Congress, which opens at Newcastle on Tyne on Monday. Alexander Jacques, faster, has csmpleted 35 out of his proposed 50 days fast, and keeps very well. A congress of colliery managers has carried resolutions strongly opposing the statutory eight hours work in mines. The Rev O. H, Spurgeon, who had been gradually regaining strength from his recent severe illness, has suffered a relapse. la conneotion with the visit of the Prenoh fleet, the Admiralty Btopped leave of the crews on her Majesty's ships at Spithead, and nearly provoked a mutiny. The position became very serious, but eventually the Ad miralty yielded. There is renewed agitation among the employees of the Omnibus Companies, and a strike is threatened. It is alleged that the Companies are infringing the agreement arrived at on the close of last strike. The Tyne ship builders have decided to reduce, in October, the wages of 10,000 men by 5 per cent. The military manoeuvres of the Ausbrian and French soldiers in Vienna and Pnris respectively show that smokeless powder will come into use extensively in the field. Balloons, telephones, semaphores, and evolutional tactics were also practised. The Standard's Constantinople correspondent reports that Turkey has entered into a secret treaty, affecting Bosnia and Egypt. The Austrian and German newspapers are very indignant at the diplomatic riotory of Russia in Turkey, and demand similar rights respecting the passage of the Dardanelles for other powers. They request that England should take the initiative in the matter. The Duke of Rutland has provisionally accepted the vacant portfolio of PostmasterGeneral, Paris, September 1. \ The reported accident to a train conveying j troops to the manoeuvres in is incorrect. During severe storms in this city esveral 1 persons were drowned. The flooding of the sewers is causing thousands of rats to invade the houses. St. Petebsburg, September 5. Mr Arnold White, representative of Baron Ilirsch, has had a satisfactory interview with the Czar relative to the Baron's proposals in connection with his compatriots, A sensation has been caused in Warsaw owing to the preparations which are being made to concentrate a large force within a fortnight. The reason of the mobilisation is not knowni A Russian Commission is preparing an elaborate commercial treaty with Servia, and is arranging to establish a Consulate in that country, BebNE, September 5. It is now explained that the proposal to ereqt an observatory on the top of Mount

Blano has been abandoned, os the proposers were unable to find a rook for its foundation. Constantinople, September 4, The resignation of Kiaraal Pasha, the Turkish Prime Minister, has resulted in a change of policy in Turkey, which, has hitheito leaned towards the Triple Alliance. It is believed that the Sultan was muoh impressed by the reception accorded to the French fleet at Gronsbadt. Ottawa, September 5. The Hon. G. B. Foster, Minister of Finance, is i\oous9d of corrupt praotioe in subsidising the West Indian Steam Ship Company. Chicago, September 5. An explosion of twenty tons of dynamite at White Pigeon, in Michigan, destroyed a factory and killed 16 persons. Valparaiso, September 5. The Junfa legalises the notes issued by President Balmaceda, but confiscates the Bank accounts of the Loyalists in order to meet such notes. The insurgent army is bung disbanded, and the censorship established over telegraphio messages is being removed. The whole country is tranquil. Mr Patrick Egan, United Stttes Minister to Ohili, who has been accused of siding with the Congressionaliste, expresses anxiety for Congress to euquire into his aotion, and denies the oharge of partisanship. Pobt au Pbince, September 6. A crisis is pending in Hayti, and General Hippolyte, the President, has strongly garrisoned the seapoits.