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Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 21, 3 June 1885, Page 4

Tho seizure of the newspaper, Eosphore Eqyptienne at Cairo by the authorities, ami the refusal of the Egyptian Government to make apology and reparation at the demand of Franco has led to the breaking off of official relations between the two countries, On the 24th April, Earl Granville telegraphed instructions to Sir Evelyn Baring on that date to support Nnbar Pasha, Egyptian Foreign Secretary, to the ntonoßt extremity in Us refnsal to make an apology or explanation of the suppression. The Paris morning papers of the 25th April are loud inpraiseof Ue Freycinets action in tho affair. The cafes are thronged with enthusiastic partisans, and cheers for the new Foreign Minister, alternated wiih jeers for England, are given, The evening papers had an enormous sale. Many of them asserted that De Freycinei’s pre-emptory sunderin'? of intercourse with Egypt is the first step towards the formal alliance of France with Russia. Prance is evidently acting with a desire to overthrow Nnbar Pasha. A despatch of May 4th mentions that the question is settled. England advised Egypt to apologise to France, and allow the papertoro-appear. Since her return from Darnstadt the Queen’s health has notably improved. A despatch of 4th May says : * Extraordinary precautions were adopted yesterday before Her Majesty’s arrival at Inverness. Several hours ere the royal yacht was expected, all the vessels in harbour were inspected, the harbour was diligently patrolled by police boats, and the route from the landing to the way station was lined by a military guard and many metropolitan detectives.

Ada Cavendish, the actress, was married to Frank A. Marshall, dramatist

The discussion on the budget in the lobby of the House of Commons discloses much discontent among the Irish and Scotch members, whose grievance is llie disproportion between the whisky and beer duties, the whisky tax being increased half a penny per glass and the beer tax by only three farthings per gallon. At Greenock, on May Ist, water was for the first time admitted into the immense James’ Water Docks. The cost is £500,000. It is intended for the accommodation of the transatlantic steamers. The yacht Galatea, a contestant for the American Cup, was launched at Greenock on May Ist. A budget for 1885-86 was submitted to the House of Commons, and shows a deficit of £10,490,000. Mr Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that Government did not propose to cover the whole of the deficit this year, nor to let the whole charge fall upon property. It was proposed to raise the income tax to eighteen pence in the pound.