The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
Last Nights Dispatches.
FOREIGN.
Foreign wheat Market.

LONDON, July 30.-The Mark Lane
Erpress says: Wheat cutting is now be-
coming general and judging from recent
agricultural advices wheat seems improved
wonderfully in many parts of the country.
The past months sunshine has repaired
the injury caused by the rainfall of MAY in
an unlooked-tor extent, excepting in dis
tricts where the drought was severe,
causing premature ripening Prospects
for the barley crop are valuable and gen.
orally unpromising, particularly on lighter
soil; the yield will certainly be light.
Oats and beans promise fairly. The grain
trade in London and in the provinces is
devoid of any special feature, but prices
are well maintained, considering the prox-
unity of the harvest There is an UNDER
current of steadiness observable and the
opinion generally obtains THAI, whether
bought for consumption or speculation,
wheat at the present prices cannot do much
harm to miller or speculator One
Strengthening influence at work is the con.
tinued continental demand for white wheat
on the spot, and cargoes off coast have been
taken for continental account. The fact
that prices are stationary in the face of
liberal imports and Improved crop pros
poets, is due In great measure to this
legitimate increase. Demand arrivals Of
wheat cargoes off the coast, especially
from America, appear likely TO be small
for The next few weeks, but as brilliant
prospects are entertained of the crop on
the other side of the Atlantic, the proba-
biity of any material rise here is more or
less remote. With the moderate arrivals
at ports of call, the floating caego trade for
wheat is steady without quotable change
in values. The demand for the continent
continues, ana helps to support prices.
Maize dull. Barley unchanged.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, July 30.-In the debate In the
house of commons Gladstone began by
reading a letter which he had addressed to
Beaconsield, asking him to cite instances
in support OF accusations of unjusti6able
and reck less attacks. He declared that
he never attacked the government without
deep sense of responsibility: that he had
never assigned any dishonorable motive to
the premier, and his attacks upon whose
policy were based upon irreconcilable and
fundamental differences of opinion and feel
ing. He made long review of the re-
suits of congress. He regretted the
JOAtVAcy Va 6bl1lC vi luC pOWGTS
regard to Greece With Servia and Mon
tenegro independent, Bulgaria practically
so and Bosnia and Herzegovina irrevoc-
ably annexed to Austria, it was impossi-
BILE to deny that the partition of Turkey, if
not as complete, was as great as that of
Poland. He desired the elevation of the
native races instead of the suppression of
Turkey by another power, and complained
OF the governments policy from first to
last. He said they must feel some shame
when they looked upon the results OBJ
tanned, and what might have been OBJ
tanned without SO much bloodshed if they
had not jealousy severed themselves from
Russia two years ago. They had left
Russia the finest possible field for working
against the present arrangement. The
British plenipotentiaries had, throughout
the congress, done their utmost to prop up
Turkey and keep down the subject races.
For the first time in history their atti-
tude was not in accordance with the free
institutions. The assertions of Lord
Beacons6eld relative to the British efforts
In favor OF Greece, were not supported by
anything 10 the protocols The conclusion
of the Anglo-Russian agreement was q
practical contradiction of Lord Salisbury's 8
note. He had been associated with all the
greatest statesmen of England for half a.
century, and he did not hesitate to say
that none of them would have imposed
such responsibility on the country. He
could not regard such policy as within
the limits of reasonable statesmauship. He
asked what the government would have
done II foreign power had concluded such
q convention. The government had in
ratlfying the convention before Parliament
was made acquainted with it, pusfed the
convention to an extreme which has
been avoided by the greatest statesmen.
A new phase Of the Eastern question was