Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-01
CABLE NEWS.
UnfaVOrabIe News from the sent OF
the Zulu War-CathOIIc Bank
Ing Interests-BrItish Rev
eEueS Afghanfstan
AnairR- Etc.

PARIS, March 3l.-Piesident Greyy, re-
ceiving the agricultural delegates, assured
then that treaty OF commerce would be
concluded until the chambers had come to a
decision or the subject of commercial policy.
AfGhanistau Matters still Unsettled.
LONDON, March 3I.-Iu the house of COM
mons, to-day, Sir Stafford Northcote, chan
cellor of the exch >quer, said that the nego-
tiations with the Afghanistans had not been
completed, and that he was unable tO o0Iu-
ton that an advance on Cabul had been Or
dered.
The Proposition to Return the French
Legislature to Paris.
PARIS, March 31.-The great point of the
senatorial committee's report against the re-
turn of the Legislature, TO Paris is the argu-
ment drawn from the oolicy OF the United
States which the report points out, 1t has
enjoyed, fo~ century, perfect security from
non-inteIferencc with the Legislatures by
placing them at 4 distance from the large
towns.
Catholic Banking Interests.
LONDON. March 31.-It is said the project
of leading members of the Roman Catholic
communion to carry into financial matters
| the bond of Catholic sympathy and conf
| dence, has assumed the shape and title of the
| Anglo Universal bank limited, with direc-
| torate in London and Paris, anil counting
| among its patrons eminent British, French
| and Italian noblemen. The design of the
| bank is to take up and extend valuable for
/ eIgn connection, and assume more efficient
| protection and development of the Catholic
banking interests throughout the world.
| Won Drentelin's WOuld-Be Assassi-
nation.
| ST.. PETERsBURG, March 3l.-Forty-fve
| persons were arrested last night after an at
| tempt on the life of General Won DrentelIn
and Chief. G General Darmic. Some of them
l. ~
sent to common prisons. They include sew.
eral officers, guards, court chamberlains, and
two daughters of prominent minister.
committee has been appointed to in
Quire into the causes of the death OF two hun
bred out of five hundred inmates of the
Clark If central prison within four months
Il British Revenues.
LONDON, March 31.-The total receipts
| from the various sources OF revenue OF the
| United Kingdom, for the financial year nov
: closed, are e83, lis, 972, which is el14, 02s
! below the estimate of receipts from customs
,, which show deficiency of e1S4,0O0, from
excise 100000, and from stamps e200, 600
! The other branches of revenue show an In
| crease of receipts; net increase of revenue
. as compared with the last financial year, e3
$ 352, 673.
II In the house of commons, after long de
bate, motion censuring the government fo
! its Zulu war policy was defeated-3O6 to GAG
The Zulu War.
MARELHBURG, March 11.-Several nativ
. runners, induced by large rewards, starte
for Ekowe with dispatches for Colonel Pear
d son, but returned reporting the roads de
Q | stroyed and every approach commanded b.
military kraals Qorths) and the countr
s swarming with Zuus. With the utmost car
a Colonel Pearson s supplies, it is believed, wi
: be exhausted by the end of March. The ez
s petition organizing on the lower Tugdea fc
e his relief, amounts to fourteen companies {
IL regulars, and as soon as the native continger
s is sufficiently strong the expedition will b
, pushed forward.
A serious breach has occurred between s.
Bartle Freere and the governor of Natal 1
/, | consequence of the harsh measures sanC
1t toned by the former to conscript the native