Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-28
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

LONDON, September 2S.-The Bank
OF Bengal has reduced the rate Of dis
count from 5 to &c.
The Rutland stakes at Haymarket
was won by Golden Farmer, beating
Lorillard's Comanche, the only other
starter.
The Newmarket October handicap
was won by Wandering Nun; Sire
litzia, second; Roysterer, third. Six
started, including Sutler.
A Vienna newspaper publishes a
story in effect that the Emperor and
Empress of Russia were secretly
crowned during recent visit to Mos
COW. If the Emperor survives, it
is held, public coronation and secret
ceremony will be considered void
In event Of his death it will be made
public SO as to avoid any difficulty in
proclaiming Zarowitch Alexander as
lawful successor of the crowned Mon
arch.
1t is understood Dayitt and Dillon
have EXPLICITLY denied that any diff
ference exists between the later and
Parnell. Dillon resigns solely because
ofill health. There are hopes in the
party that he may be able to resume
duties after an absence ofa year.
DUBLIN, September ga farmer
nrmed Hickey. in Tippersry county,
has been murdered for paying his rent
in violation of an order OF the local
Land League aud for assisting in the
defense OF some men employed in
gathering crops on the farm of an
evicted tenant named Carroll. Carroll
and family have been arrested.
General Fitzgibbon, Master of
Ohancery, and prominent among the
cOunsels for defense in State trials for
forty three years, is dead.
DUBLIN, September 28.-E. Dwyer
Gray is suffering actually in prison
from an affection of his chest.
CAIRO, September 23.-Contrary to
rumors, General WOlseley, will not
leave here for a fortnight, or until
urgent questions awaiting solution in
connection with the court martials are
settled. 1pn
The withdrawal of portion of the
British troops and the reorganization
of the Egyptian army is settled. %
There have been riots in several
towns in upper Egypt on account Of
the efforts of officials to enforce dem
onstrations Of loyalty to the Khedive.
Flags and devices have been torn down
by mobs, aud Christians insulted and
maltreated. t1
ALEXANDRIA, September %. 1t is
stated that two companies OF the
Forty ninth regiment have been or
dered to Tantah.
Tie Egyptian government possesses
= telegram from Prince Ibrahim to
Arab Pasha, cOngratulating him on
the supposed Egyptian victory at Kas-
sassin, and hoping that at the next
feast of Bahrim Englishmen would
be sacrificed instead of sheep.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, September 2S.-,
Lord Dufferin has communicated to
Lord Granville a note from the Porte,
thanking Great Britain for re estab-
fishing order in Egypt, and expressing
the hope that the bonds of friendship
at present existing between Turkey
and England may become still closer,
Granville has replied, expressing great
satisfaction at the sentlm ents Of the
Ottoman government. na
Five battalion of troops have been
dispatched to Heyaz, Arabia, where
an outbreak is reported as probably
connected with the recent disposition
Of the Grand Sheref If Mecca.
CATTARo, September %. Disturb
anoes have broken out among the
Montenegrins in Kolaschin. The
Governor Of Novin Bazaar has sent a
body Of Nizams to occupy Turkish
Kolaschin.