Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-08-18
FOREIGN.

LONDON, August 17-12:30 p. NJ
The Bank of England rate of dis
count has advanced to four per
cent.
DUBLIN, August 17.-It is stated
that k. Dwyn Gray, who was sem
fenced to three months imprison>
ment yesterday, is in very delicate
health.
LONDON, August 1.-THE Daily
News says: If Judge Lawson had
had the courage and prudence to
dismiss Gray's case, with few
words of contemptuous tolerance, it
would have been better for the end
of justice and peace of Ireland.
The other London papers approve
of the sentence.
A dispatch from Alexandria to
Reuters Telegram Company, states
that General Wolseley has decided
that the British defense shall be
made from Aboukir Troops will
embark on Saturday, and will land
and attack the Aboukir forts ON
Sunday. The Khedive to>day vis>
tied General Wolseley on board the
dispatch boat, Salamis, andremained
an hour.
DUBLIN, August 17.-Gray was re-
moved to the prison yesterday in a
carriage, surrounded by hussars,
with drawn sabres.
At the banquet given yes
terday evening to celebrate
the presentation of the freedom of
the city to Parnell and Dillon, there
was large attendance of guests.
Toasts to the Queen were drank
with considerable enthusiasm, inter
mixed with hiss es from numbers of
those present.
Earl spencer has ordered the res
lease of fifty suspects who had been
arrested in Loughrea district afte r
the murder of w Blake
PLYMOUTH, Enc, August 16.-A
special from Alexandria to the
Western Morning News, says: The
belief in the hopelessness of the
struggle is spreading among the
| Egyptians. The British commander
at Meks has received overtures for
the surrender of the entire infantry
battalion, if it can obtain favorable
/ terms.
LONDON, August 16.-In the House
of Commons this afternoon Captain
Nolan, member for Galway, wished
to call attention TO the imprison-
ment of Mr.. Gray, but was ruled out
of order. Mr. Callow, member for
Louth, has given private notice that
he will to morrow call attention to
the sentence of Mr.. Gray. Tele>
grams have been sent 70 the Irish
members at present in Ireland, to
return to London to participate in
the debate.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, August 16.-The
draught of the military convention
proposed to the porte to England
was as follows:
The Turkish army undertakes the
pacifcation of Egypt without foreign
assistance; the British to remain in
their present positions and not to
participate n any of the operations
The Turks are to be allowed to use
Alexandria as the base of operations,
and the Turks and British both to
withdraw after the pacifcations of
/ the country.
LONDON, August ia dispatch
to Reuters Telegram Company from
/ Constantinople says the report that
the Ulmas have deposed the Sultan
is untrue. On the contrary, the
/ Sultan, at the feast of Boisam, yes
terday, received several congratula-
tory kilograms from Cora and
other parts of Egypt.
Lord Dufferin retired this draught
| and submitted another, stipulating
that the Turks should not under
take operations without the previous
consent of the British commander :;
that British officers should be de-
tached to the Turkish headquarters,
and that the question of evacuation
should be the subject of special
convention. 1t is believed that there
is no probability of the Portes &C
ceptiDg the English conditions. A
few officers and soldiers have re
turned on leave from Suda Bay,
where 400 Turkish troops are as
sembled.
DUBLIN, August 16.-The follows
ing proclamation, signed by Mayor
Dawson and Messrs. Parnell, Dillon
and Davitt, has been issued
DUBLIN, August 16.-Citizens of
Dublin: Without Offering any CONS
ment upon the sentence passed upon
Hon. E. Dwyer Gray, we deem it
our duty to invoke the people to
maintain calmness and a dignifed
demeanor We are expressing the
wishes of Mr.. Gray in counselling
our fellow-citizens to abstain from
any gatherings in the streets that
might lead to breach of the peace.
We require only calmness and
temperance in the present emergen-
cy. Hundreds of thousands of WIS.,
itors kept the peace in Dublin yes
terday let the citizens show equal
prudence and self control on this
occasion.