CABLEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2173, 21 December 1875, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

LONDON. ■November'BO. It is rumoured that Parliament will assemble on December 15. There has been an exiraordinary rainfall, and the storms have flooded vast tracts of country in England, causing much damage on the coast. There have been many wrecks. The floods are now partially subsiding. The ironclad Iron Duke narrowly escaped foundering in the Channel, through the sluice valve being accidentally left open and flooding the engineroom. The Admiralty state the accident has been exaggerated. The English Government has bought in from the Khedive of Egypt all his Suez Canal shares for £4,000,000, cash down. The Khedive held 177,000 out of a total of 400,000 shares in the Canal Company. The journals unanimously approve of the purchase, which has caused much agitation in political and financial circles. Owing to the retirement of Sir ——— Baggalley, Sir John Holker has been appointed Attorney - General, and Mr Gifford, Q.C., Solicitor-General. 30,000 Dundee mill workers have struck against a notice for a reduction in the rate of wages. All the rumours respecting the Eastern question are unfounded, but an ugly one respecting the attitude of Russia continues. It is believed, however, that the alliance of the three Northern Powers has precluded the probability of isolated action. A tranquilisation article in the Russian Official Gazette refused to acknowledge the apprehensions of the Foreign Press, and says that a good understanding between the Great Powers renders a disturbance of peace impossible. The Russian Press is pacific, and the English Press generally indifferent to the fate of Turkey, but insist on the necessity of preserving communication with Egypt, and maintaining the nationality of Persia and Afghanistan.

The insurgents of the Herzegovina have defeated the Turks near Gotschgo, in which 800 Turks were killed and 600 wounded. The Times recommends, and the Au train Press opposes, Austrian occupation of Bosnia and the Herzegovina. The Austrian forces on the Turkish frontier have been reinforced. Montenegro dispatches an envoy to the Northern Powers to explain to them the difficulty of preserving neutrality. The Spanish reply to the American note of the 2nd of November concedes the legal privileges to American citizens in Cuba, and this amicably settles the Hispano-American difficulty. It is proposed to prosecute the Count Yon Arnim for treason.

The Government intend sending a special Commissioner to Cairo to examine into Egyptian finances, and to advise the Khedive.

The French Press though regretting the check given to French influence in Egypt, advise the decisive action of England, and considers it unlikely to lead to political complication. The German and Austrian Press approve of England's action in the matter. The Prince of Wales left Bombay after visiting Baroda, but he has not visited Ceylon.

Obituary^—Cardinal Eauscher, Archbishop of Vienna: the: Grand. Duke of Modena. Henry Wilson, Vice-President of the United States; Mr Demp, successor. November 26. Opening rates at wopl sales well maintained. Australian maintain closing rates of last series ; Gape, Id- tolfd lower. The Australian proportion is 50,000 bales. New Zealand wheat, 51s to 535. 800 bales New Zealand hemp sold at £19 per ton. -. ;■-.-•. -.' ■■■ .■■ : Armed : Stirlingshire. ;i December 3. Sailed: Somersetshire, with Sir Julius Vogel on board. .Sir Alfred Stephen is gazetted Lieut.Governor of New South Wales. Mrs Childers has been killed by the inhalation of chloroform. The City Inundation Fund amounts to £14,000. The wool competition continues extremely rigorous; Australian rates firmer. Wheat quiet— Adelaide 54s to 555 ; New Zealand, 51s to 535.

Undated. ; The Queensland mail was delivered on the 6th. Tenders for the Queensland 4 per cent, loan of a million amounted to a million; and a quarter, chiefly at 91. The minimum was 91. Tho wool sales competition continues extremely vigorous, but without any advance; prices firm. The corn market is easy; foreign arrivals are very large. Obituary.—C. J. Latrobe, formerly i Lieut-Governor of Port Phillip. Arrived: s.s. Durham.