Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-23
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
THE TROOPS. CALLED OUT
Russia Done With The
Penjdeh Affair.
FEARS or ANOTHER RELAPSE.
III The Case Of General
Grant.
A VOLCANO DEALS OUT DEATH.
The Crees Going On The
Warpath.
| VOLCANO DEALS OUT DEATH.
CALLS OUT TROOPS.


ENGLAND CALLS OUT TROOPS.
The First Class Ordered To Prepare
For Active Service--E English Mercan-
tile Honses Closing I'm Russia.
LONDON, April 22.-The war office has
issued notice calling out the first class of
the army reserves, comprising fifteen regi-
ments for immediate and permanent service.
f'h6ss 1defEbgfs sewing Gs roites In Eng
land and Ireland are exempted. The other
classes of the reserves have been notified
that they will probably be called out at an
early date.
Hhssia tas notified England that SHE de-
clines further discussion of the Penjdeh in
cident.
The admiralty have chartered the steamer
Rithiaona Hill, enc of the London and New
York liners, for transport service
Sir Stafford Northcote, Conservative leader
in the House of Commons, said in the course
of an address delivered In this city to-day
that the retention Of the control of Egypt is
all itnbortaht for fhg1and's i1tetests. II for
no other reason than as a part of England s
duty to the people of India the. government
should maintain a; proper position there and
should especially place beyond, all, douht the
perpetual availability OF the Suez canal for
the transit of British troops. N.
Lord Salisbury, speaking in Wales to-day,
foreshadowed what will probably be adopted
as the platform OF the Conservatives in the
general sleetions. next fail. The Tory leader
in the House of Lords asked why it happened
that the owners Of houses and, lands were
heavily taxed while the psople drawing hjfgs
fortunes from the ownership of foreign Sc
curities, consols, ETC., went free. This Unequal
ity in taxation had played chief part in
bringing about the depression in trade; and
in it was to be found a solution of the ques-
ton of better housing of the poor. In re-
gard to a protective policy Lord Salisbury
said that he would net advocate revival of
the duty on eersals, but could not England
meet thS. protective tnegsufeS of European
nations by employing some other weapon.
L1oyds commercial agency advanced it's
premiums to day from to Is shillings.
The Standards Paris despatch says that
the United States regarding England as the
champion of Anglo-Saxon civilization, the
Washington government has intimated that
in the event of war it will not permit Russia
to buy or arm ships in American harbors
which may be used for the purpose of prey
ing upon British commerce.
Tennyson, who is a Liberal in politics, has
written for the Times a poem on EN-
glands Fleet" in the concluding lines of
which he warns Gladstone that if The present
ministry has wrought The, Disgrace. Ct En-
gland as naval. power they will be Kicked
from their places"
VIENNA, April pa dispatch from
Odessa says: Leading English mercantile
houses are closing up their business and ar
ranging with their connections for the trans
preparatory to the members of the firms
leaving Russia. Public excitement is iu-
creasing. There has been further fall of
Russian securities.