The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-03-27 00:00:00

BURILTAH.

CALCUTTA, March 21.

It Las been decided to raise in India two levies of
military police for service in Upper Burruah. Each
levy will consist of 400 privates, ore being recruited
from Punjabis, and the other from Efindustanis. Each
will be commanded by a European military officer.
The actual amount expended on account of Theebaw
during the first month of his residence under British
charge was 11,000 rupees. This, however, included
the cost of furnishing a house for him, the salary of
the political officer in charge, and the cost of the es-
King's passage from Burrnah to Madras.

The following telegram has been received at the
India Office:

"From Viceroy, March 21.
"General Prendergast telegraphs that he has dis-
persed the large body of insurgents collected at
Yemethen, and that the neighbouring woons are ihi
friendly communication with him."
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ENGLAND, EGYPT, AND THE SOUDAN:

The Times correspondent writing from Cairo on
Sunday says :—" The final accounts for 1885 have
been published, together with a Note, fully explain-
ing the results for the year. The actual surplus
amounts to £E503,979, and if:we deduct from this the
taxes on the Debt and on the Suez Canal Shares, which
amount to £E18:2,660, and which will have to be paid
in 1887, the net surplus is £E321,319. This is not
the sum which in Anril, 1887, will be divided between
the Government and the Sinking Fund, as the ac-
counts of the revenues assigned to the service of the
Debt have to be settled annually, in accordance with
the Convention of October 25, whereas the accounts
of the Government are naturally closed at the end of
the year. This closing of the two accounts on
different dates unnecessarily complicates the accounts,
and the system should undoubtedly be altered. The
burping to be divided between the Govern-
ment and the Sinking Fund, settled in accordance
with the present system of closing the accounts on
different dates, amounts to £E253,729. The Govern-
ment's share is, therefore, £E126,864, of which a sum
of £E62,387 was spent in 1885, leaving the Govern-
ment with the sum of £EG1,477 still to the good. The
Consuls-General met yesterday and to-day to take
into consideration three distincts claims made by the
ex-Khedive and his family against the Government,
which touch the Law of Liquidation. The first is
against the Demains. When the members of the
family ceded their estates for the Loan of 1873, the
lands:were sown, payments have been made in advance
for taxes, and money was lying at the office on the
different estates. The second claim is for a return of
the reductions made at different periods in their pen-
eims, which were permanently fixed on their giving up
the Domain lands to the State. The third claim is that
all their property, excluding the Domains, which was
appropriated by the Government, should be handed
back, aud that they should he indemnified. These
claims are estimated to exceed five reillions sterling.
The Consuls-General have decided to ask for further
explanations from the Government before demanding
instructions from their respeciive Governments."
According to the published scheme for the conver-
sion of the Egyptian Daira and Domain Loans, an
immediate economy of a quarter of a million sterling
will be effected in the Budget, in addition to other
economies.

COSSTANTINOPLF,, March 20.
Moukhtar Pasha has reported to the Porte that
unless his programme for the pacification of Egypt
be immediately adopted and carried out, the English
will never withdraw fro.n the country.

CAmo, March 23.
The ex-Khedive Ismail Pasha and several members
of the Khedivial family having instituted proceedings
before the native tribunals for claims exceeding the
sum of £5,000,000, the Consuls-General on their own
initiative have examined these claims, and declared
them to be an infringement of the law of liquidation,
as in their opinion the native tribunals do not ofTer
sufficient guarantee for impartial judgment. The
Consuls-General have accordingly decided to make
identical verbal representations to Nubar Pa,br,
asking for the adjournment of the cases pending the
receipt of instructions from their respective Govern-
ments in regard to the transfer of the claims from
the native to the internaticnal tribunals. In diplo-
matic circles it is believed that the Powers will advise
the Khedive to issue a decree ordering the transfer.
The statement published by a London morning paper
yesterday that the British Government had under
consideration the desirability of immediately recalling:
Sir H. D. Wolff from Egypt is authoritatively de-
clared to be unfounded.