The record-union., 1896-04-05

Cease on the Egyptian Treasury
and is Also Trying to Get Informa-
+ton nc tn the plans in the Soudan
Campaign.
LONDON, April 4-The appeal or
France and Russia to the egyptian
mixed tribunal against the decision OIL
a majority of the Egyptian Debt Com
mission to grant E50G,O 600 for the ex-
penses of the Soudan expedition has
been summarily disposed of by ma
tority of the members of the trlounai
declining to admit that the trlpunal mas
any jurisdiction in the matter Ihe
Egyptian treasury has paid the whole
os the first draft of E5O0,OOO, most or
which has already been expended. An
other 100000 will soon be required
M. Bourgeois, the French Prime Min
lister, is continuing his negotiations with
Lord Salisbury, trying to get pleogeS
that the demands will cease on the
Egyptian treasury, and is also trying 10
get information as tc the plans OF the
campaign in the Soudan.
The Pail Mall Gazette" to-day as
serts that an agreement between France
and Great Britain on this question has
been already obtained. If so, M. Bour.
geois was easily satisfied Doubtless
Lord Salisbury will readily give assur-
ances of the intention OF the British
Government to limit the sphere of oper-
ations as announced iE Parliament, that
is to say, that the advance of the expe-
dition would depend upon the resistance
offered by the Dervishes.
The reason for his not hesitating to
give these assurances is that he foresees
that the time will come when an ad-
vance of the Mahdists will give an op-
perfume excuse for the enlargement Of
the war Even now, according to the
Spectator" the Government contem-
plates sending to Suakim, on the Red
Sea, 10000 troops from India to break
UP the forces of Osman Digna, and to
threaten the rear of the Dervishes who
are fronting the expedition that will
proceed up the Nile. That the design
to advance from Suakim on Berber is
is obvious from the orders
that have been issued for resurvey to
be made of that part of the Berber
Railway that was constructed during
the last campaign.
The progress Of the Nile expedition is
not rapid. The main part of the expedi-
ton is still at Assoun, from which place
the newspaper correspondents accom-
panying the advance started only on
Thursday with the camelry on the long
march along the east bank of the Nile.
The Maxim batteries and cavalry are
being slowly transported by steamers
to Wady Halfa, from which place it will
be impossible to make general ad
vance before May.
The rumors that Dervishes are assem-
bling before Suarda is unreliable.
Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of
State for the Colonies, proposes to call a
colonial conference to discuss his
scheme for an imperial zollverein, as
outlined in his recent speech before the
Canadian Club. Briefly put, his scheme
free trade between Great
Britain and her colonies and protection
against the rest of the world. He has
sounded the colonial agents generally
here on the basis of the discussion.
The agents concur in the belief that the
holding of such a conference is desira
BILE, but the probability of a practical
result being reached is remote. Nobody
interested in the subject has yet de-
vised scheme to reconcile the diverse
tariffs of the colonies with the ideas of
Mr.. Chamberlain. The subject will be
a leading topic of conversation at the
Congress of Chambers of Commerce
that will meet on June 8th. The con-
gress will be large one. Forty Cham
bers of Commerce Of the United King
dom will send delegates.
Lord Dufferin, the British Embassa-
dor to France, and the Marquis of
Lorne, son-in-law Of the Queen, and a
host of other notables will attend the
Olympic games at Athens. According
to English athletes now at Athens,
there is no promise of anything like
records being made. A private letter
says unless the foreign athletes lend
interest to the games they will be
farce. The Greek athletes, in practic-
ing, with the King and court and 1900
of the populace looking on, could not
do anything that would even excite
elsewhere. The man who did
a high jump of feet 2 inches was ap-
plauded, and those able to cover three
yards in two hops and jump excited
Ecclesiastical circles are awaiting
with interest the Pope's deliverance
Of the valedictory relative to
Protestant priests. Cardinal Vaughan
is eager to obtain a Papal denuncia-
tion thereof as affecting the Anglican
orders. It is reported that the Pope is
reluctant to issuing a illumination that
will tend to retard Anglican CONVEX
sions while accelerating an approach
ment between the Anglican and Greek
Churches. He will therefore not hasten
his encyclical. He has appointed a
of Cardinals and minor ec-
clesiastics including a number of Eng
lishmen to examine into the question.
The Derby price of Richard Crokers
Montauk has shortened to 80 to /. The
Sporting Times" says the horse has
been befriended in such earnest as to
show that he is expected to emulate
IroQuois and take another Derby
it adds, do not usually
throw their money away. They have a
trainer in Morton who is not likely to
lead them wrong. Englishmen may
think that Montauk's form is feeble,
Mr.. Croker's Americus is entered for
the Jubilee Stakes April 10th.
The Duke of Argyle and the Duke of
will send a circular to the
American and Canadian press appeal
ing for funds for the relief Of the suf-