LATEST EUROPEAN

Westport Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1969, 24 January 1882, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN

LONDON. January 19. Hopes are entertained that Gambetta and Viscount Lyons, now in eon ference, will yet arrange the Anglo Freuch Commercial Treaty. Sidi Ali, heir presumptive, has been arrested at Tunis for conspiring to overthrow his brother, the Bey of Tunis. Musurna Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, to-day formally presented to Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary, a circular note to the Powers, ia which ; the Sultan sets forth that his rights in Egypt are founded upon an Imperial Firman, ana that foreign nations are in no way entitled to interfere in the affairs of the Regency. The Porte, as already reported, further demands an ; explanation of the Anglo-French note guaranteeing the maintenance ot the Khedive's authority against any dis— . order that may any time arise in Egypt. , The Suez mails were delivered on the ' ISth, leaving Melbourne on the 7th December. The trial of Guiteau, at Washington, is still proceeding. A sculling match between Hanlan and Ross comes off on Thames on the 20th June. The Rev. Sarger, Vicar of Carlton, North Allerton, "Yorkshire, has been accused of burning his church, but charge was not proved. One person implicated in robbery of the body of Earl Crawford from the mansoleum, has offered to disclose its hiding place. The steamer Lion, from Green Oak to ;IV ewfoundland, has been wrecked with a loss of 23 lives. Fifty ladies have left New York for Ireland to assist the Irish Women's Land League. The largest steel steamer yet built has been launched at Belfast. She will be named the Garfield, and ia to be put in the Australian trade. CAIRO. January 18. The Egyptian assembly of Notables which opened its sittings last month, passed resolutions defining its own powers and virtually assuming control of the Government of the Kingdom. Cherit Pasha, President of the Council of Ministers, has intimated his refusal to accept the decision of the Notables.