Thursday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 13, 18 July 1884, Page 13

Thursday.

A Turkish battalion proceeding to Assouan mutinied and deserted. At a meeting of Conservatives at the Carlton Club it was decided to refuse the offers of a compron.isu on the Franchise Bill. The Marquis of Salisbury considercii that the offers made would not suffice to secure the redistribution of seats before the Franchise Bill came into operation. The excitement arising out of the anniversary of the French Republic on Monday culminated in an outburst of popular feeling against Germany on the part of a large body of Parisian youths, who proceeded to a hotel which was flying the German national flag and forcibly removed the banner and tore it into pieces. The disturbance was speedily queued, by the, police. M. de Courcel, French Ambassador to the. Impei^al^German, Court, has been instructed to express regret on behalf of the French Government for the insult.

Lord Rosebery, in withdrawing his motion before the House of Lords regarding the recidiviste scheme, explained that the position has greatly changed since M. Gout bet ha«» reported unfavourably on the main objects of the bill, and that M. Favre's last demand in the Senate Committee for restraint and compulsory labour' has quite reversed ths policy of the bill. The Pall Mall Gazette has expressed the opinion that Earl Granville has faile-t to convince either France or Australia that he is in earnest in his action on the question, and fur. her states that he should have welcomed the action taken in the matter by Earls Rosebery and Carnarvon. The Globe mrges that the pressure of public opinion is required to prevent tue conclusion of a makeshift arrangement with France.