Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-11
FOREIGN NEWS.
The English Grain Trade.

LONDON, May 10th.-The Marx Lane En-
press says: The weather continues cold,
with frosts, but has not caused much anxiety,
as weeks sunshine would speedily restore
the wheat, which has lost color in some To-
calities. A continuance of hopeful crop pros
poets has depressed the grain trade. The
country markets have been very moderately
supplied In English wheat the condition
has improved, but the trade remains inan-
innate, and decline of a shilling per quarter
has been necessary to effect sales. At the
close of the week, however, there was more
firmness and there were some signs that the
decline had been crested. Imports of for
eign wheat into London have been very
moderate. There was fair consumptive de-
mand on Monday, at a reduction of shilling
per quarter on white descriptions. The
decline since has not much increased,
but business Except in Russian, which
has been taken by spectators on the pros
pect of a diminution of Russian export), be-
ing of the merest retail charater, millers have
taken little or no advantage of the prevailing
low rate. They expect further decline,
which does not appear unlikely if America
continues to ship heavily and the weather re-
mains favorable here and abroad. Maize is
hardening. A good trade was done in mixed
American at last Mondays quotations of 23s
3d. Arrivals at ports of call have been mod
crate. Wheat in consequence of strong
Continental demand, continued to harden.
Prices advanced shilling, although there
was not much United Kingdom bidding
Red winter closes at 57s, No. l standard Cal
ifornia at 49s, white Michigan 50s 6d(351s.
There has been quiet demand for maize at
slightly improved prices. Wheat for ship
ment is not freely offered, and buyers still
hold aloof. Maize has been held for rather
more money, but very little business was
done. Sales Of English wheat last week Were
%, 901 quarters at 46s, against 81, AT quarters
at 40s Sd for the same period last year. I'm
ports into the United Kingdom for the week
ending the 1st inst. were !, 1863, 262 cwt. of
wheat and 159, $50 cwt. of -four.
German Reichstag Proceedings.
BERLIN, May 10th-The Reichstag to-day
proceeded with the debate on the second
reading of the Elbe navigation Act. After
seven hours discussion the House rejected,
by vote of 125 to 123, the motion made by
Herr Won Benigsen to refer the bill back to
the committee, and also rejected, by vote
of 13S to no. the declaratory resolution of the
committee that the Elbe frontier line could
not be removed to a point lower down the
river, except by special bill. The House
finally agreed to second reading at the even
ing sitting. Ministers Bitter and Hoffman
declared that the question of the Elbe
customs boundary would not be made
to serve as handle for indirectly
destroying the status of Hamburg as free
port, and assured the House that the priv
ileges of Hamburg should not be touched
without the assent of the city itself but
they at the same time emphatically stated
that the Government would not concede one
iota of their right to define free territory.
Won Benigsen thanked Bismarck for the
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his firm assurance that he would not enter
into an unnatural alliance with the Clericals,
or allow reaction in ecclesiastical matters to
become the basis of his policy. Del Brueck
refuted the reproach urged against him by
Bismarck, that he went hand-in- hand with
the Center party and that he favored par
ticularism.
The "Levant Herald" Case Unpaid
Soldiers.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 0th.-The British
Embassy here and the Porte are exchanging
angry notes relative to the suppression of the
Lecant Herald and WhittakeI's (the editor)
subsequent sentence to IL months imprison-
ment for publishing a new number of his
journal. The Embassy maintains that the
decree against Whitaker is informal and can
not be recognized, and that Whitaker can
only be condemned after trial. The Porte is
indisposed to a trial, because Whittaker's
contumacious issue contains grave charges
against the Grand Vizier, which would by a
trial gain greater publicity. The Porte in
sists upon attempting to inflict summary pun
ishment. Whitaker meanwhile has left the
city, and the Embassy refuses to countenance
or assist in the execution Of the decree
against him.
The Porte has not yet succeeded in arrang-
ing the payment of salaries, and the distress
among the officers is very great. Captain
Pasha has been mobbed by women whose
husbands are away in service. They threat
ened to throw their children under his feet.
Emperor WiIliam-Bismarck.
BERLIN, May 10th.-Emperor William re-
turned here to-day.
Bismarcks speech in the Reichstag Satur-
day has produced disquieting and painful
impression. It is inferred that age is telling
upon him and his constitutional elasticity IS
giving way. Nobody believes that he is in
earnest when he talks of resigning.
Germany and BimefaIIism.
LONDON, May 10th.-A letter from Berlin
to the Economist, upon the subject of the al
legged tendency of the German Government to
favor the resumption of the double standard,
says: Not the slightest credit is due to
such rumors. Leading financial authorities