Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-04-24
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The Duke Of Edinburgh and Our
Irish Relief Ship

LONDON, April 24.-The Times this morning
says: Tbe Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Cork
harbor Friday evening In the guntoat Lively
and sent boat for Captain Potter, OF the Ur.-
ted states n1gate COnSt citation. whom be after
wards invited to dinner with Colonel Brooks
the American consul at Cork; Calking Harmon
and MI. HepWOrth, OF the New York Herald re-
lief fund committee, and Major Jaskeu, OF the
Ducness OF Marlborough's committee. The
OF the constellation IS discharged, when he will
return to Galway. TIE citizens OF Cork Will
give banquet to the Officers Of the Constella-
uon on Thursday next.
HOnors for Prof. NOrdensk jOId.
COPENHAGEN. April 24.-The King OF Sweden
has decided to create Prof. Nordenskjold the
Arctic explorer, baronet and to present to
him the grand cross of the order OF the North
Star. in diamonds, OF the value of one thousand
guineas.
An Interesting Event.
LONDON, April "A dispatch from Vienna to
OF Austria. mother OF the Queen OF Spain, will
visit her daughter in August next, when the
queens accouchment is expected to take place
The British Oarsmen.
LONDON, April 24.-The Sportsman to. day
says: 1T is reported that Robert Boyd, the
oarsman is training for the international re-
gatta which VIII come off at Providence, r. l.,
on the 9TH OF June next. William Elliott, OF
Blyth, is regularly af1oat twice daily on the
Tyne practicfng for the Hop Btters prizes, and
II he does not succeed in beating Boyd's time fn
, the match ma last February he will not go to the
United States"
A Terrible Famine.
LONDON, April N.-The lord mayor of London
has received telegram from theChristian com
m1ttee at Bagdad, which says:-"A terrible
1am1ne is raging throughout MeSopotamia and
kurdlStan. Immense masses of starving chris
tlans are crawling hither for relief Our re-
sources are totally inadequate to meet their ne
cessltles." public meeting on the subject will
be held at the Mansion house next Wednesday.
Forming the New British Ministry.
LONDON, April "a, 1:3O pm.-Mr. Gladstone
Earl Granville, Lord Harrington and Right Hon
VIM. r. Adams are now in consultation at Mr.
Gladstones house. Nothing further will prot
a1y aI oe 3 known OF the composition OF the new
borne will be Lord High Chancellor
Russia and England i'm the East.
ST. PETEasBUks sEggssFs sba1 APrl PR 2The
tains should form a natural barrier between
Russia and India, and int1mates that the yeynd
questions of Herat and Persia may and shonId
pc amieaoly solved in the interests Of Engl
A French Legislator Punished for
Insulting the Republic
,,a LONDON, 1 april "a a. dispatch from Paris to
Bonapartlstj imposedby President Gambetta an % in
the chamber of deputies on THU sday. for
words uttered which he considered offensive to
the republic, consists Of his exclusion from the
chamber for fifteen sittlngs, to receive half pay
LOT Two months, and the placarding, at his IN.
Godelle's) expense. of an extract from the Off
fai Gar 1eport OF those proceedings In the cham
OF Paris, for which he sits. This is the
first time the penalty has been i'm
posed. The Severest punishment for such Of
feDSes up to the last July was exclusion from
the chamber for three sitttngs and a months
half pay. The affair is every where talked off
and people are puzzled as to what induced
PRESIDENT GaInbetta to resort TO such severity
N. GOdelles words were: 81 persist Ia calling
for an inquiry, because Algeria demands it, ana
because injurious suspicious rest on the head Of
the brother OF the president of the
repuD,ic. President Gambetta then de.
clared that the words were insulting
10 the president of the republic. but NJ. Godelle
dlsclaimed any intention OF so offending.
Wall Street To-day.
NEW YORK, April A.-The Post in its financial
article to-day. says: ''The Stock Exchange
markets are dull and strong, the prices higher.
All classes OF investments are flrm from T. S.
ponds to choice railroad securities. The mar
ket Tor speculative stocks opened at slight
advance; there was then fractional decline,
then an advance of 1aSH per cent; then de.
cnne OF !sa11s, which has been followed by
anotner ant advance of 1sa14 per cent, the mar.
ket as we write being strong at or near
the highest prices of the day. The wild
est fluctuations have been in Nashville
and chattanooga T4a7sk), Iron Mountain
(50ssa52l4),. Canada Southern (63a64 ~. Pacific
MAIL G433sa44S0 and Jersey Central (7s1sa79).
LOUISVILLE and Nashville sold at 40, against 13O
az tne close yes erday. In the money market
tne ruling rate for call loans on stocks Is per
cent, with and per cent the exceptional
rates, very full loans being below per cent.
Kates on call loans secured by u. s. bonds are
ully per cent lower. Time money Is offered
at 8 per cent in moderate amounts, and very
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