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heart-breaking bad luck, there is at length some fair prospects of the Tam- chow and Tai-yu-shan. Mining Company reaping a substantial reward for its enterprise. If ore treated by Chinese methods can produce such paying results

as stated above, the Company has only to procure thoroughly efficient machinery. and experienced and practical foreign management to more than fully realise the sanguine anticipations that were indulged in by competent and reliable 'mining experts when the mines were first opened

TELEGRAMS,

(From the Courrier d'Haiphong.) COCHIN-CHINA AFFAIRS.

PARIS, May 11th. The Director of the Cochin-China local service has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor,

THE INDO-CHINA CUSTOMS TARIFF.

The Fournal Officiel publishes a decree from the President of the Republic providing for the revision of the Indo-China Customs Tariff.

APPOINTMENTS IN THE FRENCH'

CIVIL SERVICE.

May 12th.

M. Nout has been appointed Governor of French India. *.

M. Aymonier will be appointed Resident Superior In. Cambodia.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

May 13th.

The President of the Paris Chamber of Commerce has been elected Senator of the Seine

THE STRIKE IN WESTPHALIA. The coal miners of Westphalia have struck, and the strike has been extended to the work men of similar establishments in the region of

the Essen basin. The strikers are in a state of

exasperation, and riots are feared.. It is stated that the origin of the strike was the refusal on the part of employers to grant an increase of wages It is estimated that the men on strike number one hundred thousand..

THE NETHERLANDS.

LONDON, 12th May. There have been feres in Holland to celebrate the fortieth year of the King's reign. The King issued a proclamation thanking his people for their fidelity during the days of sorrow and joy, and trusting that with God's blessing the house of Orange and the Netherlands may ever be united, 'and remain strong and free,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

H.M.S. Espoir arrived at Shanghai from Amoy on the 14th inst.

ACCORDING to the Shik Pas measles have been very prevalent in Tientsin for the past month, and other epidemics are greatly feared, THE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending May 19th, are; -Europeans 195, Chinese 2,127 | total, 2,322.

MR. A. R. MADAR has been appointed, tom porarily and provisionally, Assessor under the Rating Ordinance of 1888, vics Mr. A. Shelton Hooper, resigned,

We are informed by the agent of the Messagerien Maritimes that the Company's steamer Mal.. bourne, with the next French mail, left Saigon yesterday at 4 pm, for this port,

His Excellency the Governor will hold a lep at Government. House on Friday, May 24th, at II a.m., in honour of the Queen's birthday, and Lady des Vœux will receive visitors from 5.30 .to 5 p.m.

M. DUPUIS, whose appointment to the Super-

intendentship of the native police in Tonquin

was recently announced, is not M. Jean Dupuis, the pioneer of Tonquin and Annam, but a Police officer at Haiphong.

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THE ALLEGED ABSCONDER.

handled: Womens were trampled upon by the crowd, and in some instances clubbed by the policemen. The excitement is intense;

LONDON, April 18th. The Great Welcomes Handicap of joo savery", signs, distance ab ut a mile and a quarter, was

THE Chinking claims are to be paid one half in cash, and the remainder in two equal instalments thred and six months from now respectively, THE appointment of Mr. Samuel Brown, as Surveyor General of Hongkong, vice Mr. J. M. Price, is officially notified in Saturday's Gastle.

MR. Wodehouse dispensed even-handed justice this morning by fining one man $50 for having broke out at Yokate, Akita-ken, on the 3rd inat., $100 for having twelve taels. Singapore papers THE Japan Gasatte reports that a great fire twenty- taeli of smuggled opium, and another

which a thousand houses were destroyed. | often record much heavier fines-$400 and $500 | lescription In the telegram. Mr. Webber Everything that was' offered was sold within

The Emperor at once, on hearing the news, subscribed $1,000 towards the relief of the sufferers."

THE Perak Government Gaseffe says that several applications for concessions on the Selama tin being formed in China to take up the interests lode have been received, and a syndicate is of the Shanghai Tia Mining and Smelting Com. pany in that district.

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for similar offences.

on board the Changsha on a charge of having

run at Croydon to-day. It was won by Colonel Dansey's Queen Anne.:

The market for crushed, sugar is excited.

twenty minutes after the market opened. Prices Te higher.

At the Police Court this morning Mr. Webber made an application for the release of John Frederick Lemm, who was arrested on Saturday

absconded from Melbourne with Lazoo. He called Chief Inspector Horspool, who stated, in answer to questions, that in his opinion the prisoner. did not correspond with the

then applied for the production of the war- rant and information, but the lalter was not forthcoming. Mr Webber then called Inspectorriz, Corcoran, and was proceeding to examine him

respect to the information. Mr. Webber then said the evidence of the first clerk, Mr. Arthur, with when bis Worship refused to go on, or to take

that he would apply to the Acting Chief Justice for a writ of habeas corpus,, and the prisoner was again remanded.

appeared at the Supreme Court this afternoon, Mr. Francis, Q.C., (instructed by Mr. Wahber)

corpus. He put in an affidavit by Lemm and applied for a rule for a writ of habeas

bearing out what we reported on Saturday, and another by Mr. Webber, detailing the proceed. ings at the Police Court." o'clock to-morrow.

His Lordship granted a rule returnable at ten

THE following details of the journey of explora tion undertakes by M. Garanger in the interior of Tanquia are published by our Haiphong con

on, in Burmah. After a 13 days trip by water towards the end of January to proceed to Ran- temporary The traveller lett Luang Prabang

he reached Chiang-Kong, a country quite un hos pitable to foreigners. Thence he repaired to On arriving at the Bumah frontiers, he met Chiang Raiby the rivers Mekong and Nam-Cock, Chieng-Sen's troops who stopped his further and reached Luang Prabang, whence he returned progress. He then returned by the river Mékong to Tonquin by the Nam-Han, proceeding by the Black River to Vietri, which place he reached 17 days after leaving Luang Prabang-:*: It would appear that Lord Salisbury's Govern- Commons en April 30th, on a question of Indian ment suffered another defeat in the House of This year, says our contemporary policy. Mr. Samuel Smith moved a resolution neither cholera, nor any epidemic or contagious condemning the Fiscal system in India as tend- NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL. disease has made its appearance, fact, which will edify those who think Tonquin to be then to promote habits of intemperance and misery country of death.!!

among the people of that country. Sir Roper The O. & O. S. S. Co.'s steamer Oceanic, Lethbridge, Mr. Caine, and Mr. Maclaren spoke | Capt. J. Metcalfe, with the American mail of the in support of the resolution. Sir J. Gost said. 23rd ulto., arrived here on Saturday. We take which were being introduced. He demanded the subjoined telegrams from our San Francisco that the system was susceptible of reforms,

We note that Mess75. D. Bruce and Co., of Dundee, on behalf of Messre Ant, Dom, Bordes, builders to construct a five-masted steel sailing and Sons, Paris, have contracted with Clyde vessel to carry 6,00 tons dead weight. When put into the water this ship will be the first five- masted and the largest sailing vessel afloat. THE Courrier d'Haiphong takes pleasure in Haiphong, Nam-diah and other towns in Ten reporting on the favorable sanitary condition of quin.

THE Manila Diaris says that the subscriptions collected for the construction of the gunboat

drafts, etc., Filipinas, with sundry premla amounted to $163.105.75. Out of that som $1193-845 have been disbursed, leaving a balance in hand of $48,727.09. Nothing having so far been settled concerning the gunboat, our contemporary suggests that a Commission be appointed from among the subscribers to finally.3 againai 103 votes, decide the matters in dispute.

THE following telegraphic news of changes in the administration of Tonquin is published by the Courrier d'Haiphong of the 12th inst.:--M. Piquet has been appointed G vernor-General of Indo-China. Colonel Rheinart, Resident-Gentral in Annam and Tonguin, and M. Parreau, Resident Saperior at Hanoi, have been recalled; M. Hector has been appointed Resident-S perior at Hué and M. Brière to a like capacity at Hanoi.

The post of Resident-General has been abolished.

THE following is the alleged slanderous state- Mr. W. O'Brien, M. P., has taken action in the ments-made in a speech at Watford-for which law courts against the Marquis of Salisbury: "Mr. O'rien urged upon all those who heard treated as they have been treated during the last him that men who took unlet farms should be ten years in the locality of which he spoke that is to say, that they should be murdered, robbed, their cattle shat and ill-treated, their farms

devastated."

THE E, and A. Co's steamer Guthrie, Captain Hugh Calg, which was detained in quarantine on arrival at Sydney in consequence of having small-pox on board, was granted pratique on April 29th and immediately proceeded to the Company's wharf to discharge her cargo. Instead of following the usual course and going on to Melbourne and Adelaide, the Guthrie was to return to China direct from Sydneyno doubt to be in good time at Foochow for the new

season's teas.

Tax Hongkong Rifle Association's "Spoon" Competition at 300 yards took place at Kowloon on Saturday afternoon. The conditions were ten shots each, sitting or kneeling, and 14 com- petitors came to the scratch. After a close finish Lieut. Carlyle, R.A., winner of the 200 yards competition on the 11th inst., proved suc. ce sful with a score of 40, Mr. E. Robinson and Police Constable Carson each scoring 38. Inspector Quincey, at one time crack marks. man, distinguished himself by totalling 8--four outers and six misses.

THE eighteenth international football match between: England and Scntland.was played at Kennington Oval on Saturday the 18th ulto,, in the presence of about ten thousand spectators. In the first half of the game the Englishmen scored two goals to nil, a goal scored by the Scotch jest as the whistle sounded for changing aldes being disallowed. After crossing over, the Scotch team had the wind in their favor, and quickly asserted their superiority, winning the match by three goals to two, after experiencing a lot of bard luck. Of the eighteen matches played Scotland has won eleven, England three, and four have been drawp.

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the rejection of a resolution which would visit the Indian Government with unmerited censure, ignoring the laudable efforts which had been made for years past to promote temperance. The resolution, on a division, was carried by

Theatre, which was gaily decorated. Signor

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LONDON, April 15th. Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, who is now at Turin, has suffered another relapse and his life is despaired of,

PARIS, April 15th

Elections for members of local councils, were gists seized the occasion to demonstrate the strength of their leader. At Charenton General Boulanger headed the poll with 2457 votes, and at Sainte Foy he received 1339 volca.

L'Evenement says that a number of documents proving that Boulanger tampered with the army have been submitted to the Senate. The arrest of a number of military men is imminent.

to-day. The liquidaters of the company have The Fanama Canal lottery drawing took place

informed the shareholders of that concern that. bands of the company, under par, would realize they believe that the reissue of unsold lottery 12,500,000 francs and save the canal, but that the Government is reluctant to propose such a consent to its adoption, measure, fearing that Parliament wou'd not

Hungary. Hundreds of persons are stary. A famine is raging at Bicza, Wang and Big- in and dying,

PARIS, April 18h. The Radical declares that General Saussicr has presented to the Senate Committee a list of officers willing to follow Boulanger, compiled by an officer who has since been punished.

Numa Gilly, author of "Mes Dossiers," has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment,

8000 francs damages for libeling ex-Minister and Savine, the publisher of the book, to three months' imprisonment and 3000 francs fine and

Raynal.

President Carnot to-day opened the exhibition of revolutionary relics in the Louvre.

The police have searched the residences of Deputy Turquet and five other members of the Boulangist party for documents in relation to the Boulangist campaign,

PHILADELPHIA, April 18th. United States Deputy Marshals have been hunting since Monday night for Captain Some- well, First Mate Ryan and Second Mate Roblas of the ship Solitaire which arrived from Dunkirke nn Monday after a sixty-four-days voyage. The fficers are armed with warrants for the arrest of the three mea charging them with cruelty such as has seldom been reported on ship-board in recent years.

The story as told by sailors to the United States Commissioner Includes the murder of one s^aman, who was knocked from the fore upper sail yard by the second mate to the deck, killing frightful beating and continued brutality.

On the way up the river the Captain sent the first and second mates ashore near League island, not daring to bring them to the city, for fear of arrest. He brought the vessel to the city himself and then disappeared.

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DUBLIN, April zoth. The league mecting to-morrow at Pilltown, has been proclaimed. county Kilkenny, which Davitt was to address,

NEW YORK, April 20th.

Express says: The Times intends to pay A special London.cablegram to the Mall and 5000 into court as damages in the Farnell suit

QUR Macao correspondent writes that the Anglo-held throughout France to-day and the Boulan-bim instantly, and the lolary of others by Maconese musical expedition which left here on Saturday last, got within hail of the Holy City at about 7 pm, the Kiukiang sticking in the mud and having to force her way through the harbour. The Harbour Master courteously sent the steam-inunch facao to convey the excur- sionists on shore, which they reached by 7.ja; the Kiukiang, entered the inner harbour, at 9:30 p.m. On Sunday night the concert, as announced, took place at the D. Pedro V.

Cattanen's pupils shone to great advantage, large audience being present a large proportion, and the affair went off with great delat, a fairly however, being from Hongkong. After the concert the proceeds (?) of which are said to be party, spectators and performers alike, indulged intended for some charitable purpose, the whole in the pleasures of the Terpsichorean art in the

MADRID, April 15th. hall adjoining the Theatre, and high jinks'

Whitelaw Reid formally tendered his resigna- The Marquis d'Armijo, Minister of Foreign prevailed until an early hour in the morning Affairs, has prepared a reply to the communication as editor of the New York Tribune on We learn from another correspondent that the tion recently addressed to the Spanish Govern Friday and it was formally accepted by the musical artistes and their friends had quite a

jamboree" coming across in the Kistiangment by Blaine, American Secretary of State done that Reid might be free to enter upon his this forenoon. A popular concert was organised draw closer the bonds of friendship uniting duties as Minister to France. The ferronnal | and quite a typhoon of music, high-class and

of the Tribune staff will remain unchanged, but otherwise. assisted by an ad lib. distribution of Spain and the United States.

the board of trustees have requested Colonel various cool and refreshing beverages, made things lively throughout the voyage.

Hay to assume the position of editor-in-chief during Mr. Reid's absence. It is believed that be will consent,

In the Spanish Minister expresses a desire to

LONDON, April 16th.

NEW YORK, April 16th.

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This leaves the court to decide upon the amount. which the Times shall pay Parnell, this payment being an acknowledgment of libel and obviating the tedious process of proving it.

trustees of the Tribune Association. This was

killed.

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ZANZIBAR, April 20th.

OTTAWA. April 1gab. On Wednesday next Mr. Foster will move that the House go into Committee of the Whole to HRP is a little Chinese romance, a novel kind of time bargain," from the Shik Pao poor to provide that the Governor-General in Council receive a letter from the New York Yacht Club consider a resolution declaring that it is expedient On Wednesday next Lord Dunraven wül farmer, the only son of an aged, widowed may give to any individual or company to accerting his challenge to a yachting contest mother, had been married a number of years, but whom a subsidy be given by the Government for the America's cup. It is, an extremely no offspring appeared to enhance his conjugal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and happinces. Lately his wife was found to be Ireland a subsidy not exceeding £15.00 per

courteous letter and likewise exceedingly pointed enceinte, to the guest joy of the household. But annum for a monthly steamship service, or a

as to what the club will and will not agree soon after, the aged mother fell seriously sick, subsidy not exceeding £5.000 per annum for a

to. The challenger will be accomniodated with and the filial son, lacking the means wherewith fortnightly steamship service between British desires. He may be accommodated as well as five races instead of three as heretofore if he to procure the needful medicine for his mother, Columbia and China and Japan, such subsidy to to dates. Instead of racing within certain limien tecided as a last resort, is sell the still unborn he given for such a term of years as may be the foreigner may have all the courses laid out babe. A concubine of a certain Mr. Wang, considered experient by the Governor in Coun-side the harbor, if he wants. The races must be who was childless, hearing of this, and wish-cil; provided that the Imperial Government sai'ed in seven fours. The challenger is denied ing to win the affection of her lord, whispered gives to the company a subsidy of not less than his wish as to the basis of time allowances. He to a lady neighbour of hers her wish to 45,000 per annum for a monthly service or buy the babe, and so arrange matters that less than £75,000 per annum for a fortnightly when the races shall be started, nor will any race shall have nothing to say about the time of day when the child was born she might hand it

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be started in a fog. to her spouse as her own. This neighbour being made the go-between she forthwith made the needful arrangements, and thiny dollars were handed over to the farmer's wife, with which she nourished her mother-in-law, Last month, when the child was born. it was secretly taken over to the house of Wang, wher upon his concubine had it announced to the family and the neighbourhood that she had just become a mother. Wang's joy was beyond all bounds, and he forthwith invited all his friends and relatives to a sumptuour feast in commemoration of the event. Mrs. Wang, the first wife, however, being actuated by feelings of jealousy, especially as she herself was barren, tegan to suspect that A LOT of robberies and burglaries were partially something was wrong, and at once inquired into matters. On, ascertaining the truth, she investigated in the Police Court this morning. immediately reported the facts to her husband, The man who was arrested whilst contemplating who thereupon questioned his concubine. The an attack on a house at Wanchai was fined tatter, aware that she had been found out, con $100, or six months; a coolie was remanded onfessed her fault, whereupon the first wife insisted a charge of stealing $8 from another coolie, and throwing pepper in his eyes two coolies were house for practising such gross deceptions remanded on a charge of breaking Into the house Wang, on learning that the farmer and his wife that her husband should expel her from the

of George Thomas, clerk, 96, Queen's Road East, had sold their child ut. of sheer necessity, to and stealing $50 worth of clothing; two others procure funds for the bealing of their aged for cleating out a Chinaman's house in Jardine's mother, took compassion on them, and besides Bazaar; and one committed for trial for robbing restoring the child to its lawful parents, madens tending to search him for opluca. a merchant of $81, near Yau-mail, whilst pre- demand for the money that had been paid, for it, and also made an additional present of ten tacts. MADAME CORA gave another first-class entertain- gratitude, acknowledged the noble-hearted Wang The farmer and his wife, in token of their ment at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, on Saturas god-father to their son, and all who heard of day night to a small but highly appreciative the affair pronounced blessings on the giver as audience. This talented lady illusionist bas well as receivers. Surely heaven will reward such a generous action as that of Wang's, whose wife

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been unfortunate in visiting Hongkong during the "off" season, when the extremely hot weather makes the Peak a far pleasanter resort than the Theatre Royal, as her really excellent performance would most certainly have been largely patronised on its merits. We under- stand that Madame Cora will perform tonight. and on Wednesday at the Garrison Theatre, and that a visit to Canton during the week is con- templated if sufficient inducement is offered.

A VERY severe thunder-storm broke over Hong- kong yesterday, morning, from the north, About 3.30 a.m., when the masses of clouds were tight down over the house-tops, the flashes of light- i ning were unusually bright, and the peals of | thunder startling. The top of the roof of a house at the corner of Pottinger and Wellington Streets was struck, and about a tos of bricks knocked

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cannot remain through life childless,

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS,

(Before Acting Chief Justice Fielding, Clarke.)

The Sessions were resumed this morning, the following gentlemenr forming the Jury-Messrs. C. G. R. Brodersen, K. A. Sudka, A. dos Remedios, D. Nowrojce, A. Vieira, G. Holmes, and H. A. T. Witte.

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ALLEGED HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

Wong Apo and four youths were charged THE silver mines at Tal-yu-shan and Tam-The Hon J. H. Want, Q.C., senior member for

into the roadway, but no one was hurt, although 28th April. They were said to have set on with highway robbery on the Praya on the

■ Chinese boy in the top room had a narrow chow differ from the ordinary run of con- Paddington in the New South Wales Legislative escape, the belt going close by him. The fosya Bonham-strand compradore on the night in cerns whose head-quarters are in Hong-Assembly, arrived at Sydney from Hongkong in lators of five telegraph and telephone wires question, near the Canton Wharf, taking his the China N. Co's steamer Chingly on the leading the Central Station which stretched watch, spectacles, robe, and even his shoes. The kong in that they are operative rather 29th alto.

past the side of the house were knocked down, only direct evidence against them was that they. than speculative. After many experiments The Japan Mail says that in return for China's and the wires twisted round the post. At Stone were found dealing with the property, and the with European and Chinese methods of attempted interference with the cotton ginning cutters' Island a bolt struck the guard-house jury acquitted them. smelting, Mr. T. E. Candler, the Company's caill in Shanghai, Japan has ordered the neat the Powder Magazine, dismantling it, but

suspension of two match factories conducted by the constables inside were unhurt, The con superintendent, left here some months ago Chinese:

Kobe,

tinuance of the rain to-day has caused Pok-fu-lam for America on special business connected Tux young Chinese who went out one day with are reported to have occurred on the Peak Road, Reservoir to overflow considerably, and landslips with the mines; but owing to certain$483 with which to discharge, his master's two on Bowen Road, one at Kennedy Town, differences with the management, he liabilities, and who turned up again a work later close to the new Police Station, and one on the eventually decided not to return to China with a fairy tale about having been robbed, was Kennedy Road Glenealy Bridge was Impass- and resigned his appointment. In the gain before Mr. Wodehouse at the Police Courable this morning, owing to the sand that war to day. As there was naturally no evidence as, washed down lodging below, and causing the meantime some new and extremely rich to whether he had been robbed or not the water to orcidor the buildge, The debris, how. Magistrate discharged him without calling on will soon be removed, and be again, as on lodes have been discovered at Tamchow him to prove his assertion Not a good pre- previous occasions, carefully carted back again the yield of silver from which is stated to - cèdent, we think,

by the P. W. D., ready for washing down again,

ever,

A SAH-SHUI-PO CASE, Lai See was Indicted with shooting Yea On at General prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson defended. Sam-shul-po on the 7th April. The Attorney- Yee On had been robbed, and took several colicemen to a house where the robbers were, While leading the way he was shot in the back br gallants running way, but one, the prisoner, was caught by a lakong, stove Owing to the wearisome; verbosity of Mr. Robinson, the case was not finished when the Sessions were adjourned, The hearing will be continued to morrow at 11 o'clock,

The race for the Nottingham Spring Handicap Dr. Peters has arrived here. He reports that of 350 sovereigns, about a mile, was run at the the people of the Somali ports refused to give Nottingham. Spring Meeting to-day and was the steamer on which he traveled any cargo, won by J. O'Neill's five-year-old, The Re and notified him that if he landed He would be Jected.

STOCKHOLM, April 20th. It is now almost certain that three. 70-foot

Crown Princess Victoria has given birth to a sloop yachts will be boil to meet the Volunteer son. This is the third child. and contest the right to defend the America's cup. One will be dealgtied by Burgess for the Boston yachtsmen, one by Cary Smith for a New York syndicate, and one by William Gard diner for a member of the Seawanhaka Corip thian Yacht Club.

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MONTREAL, April 16th.

A London cablegram says that the Andersons, proprietors of the Orient Line, have been awarded a contract by the Domin on Govern of 7,500 tons will be built. The Andersons will ment for the Atlantic mail service. Five steamers form a company backed by the Canadian Pacific road.

LONDON, April 17th During the ceremonies at the opening of the Sutherland Infirmary this morning, a platform carrying the Marquis of Hartington and other dignitaries collapsed. The Mayor's wife and a number of others were seriously kuşt. -

Balliol College, Oxford, has been arrested at An Englishman named Harrison, a student of Gweedore, Ireland, for supplying food to besieged tenants. He was hand-cuffed immediately upon being taken into custody,

* PARIE, April 17th, La Prisé says that warrants,have been issued for the arrest of sixty: members of the Boulangist party.

COLON, April 20h. President Naser of Colombia publishes to-day death blow to all French schemes in connection most important letter, which is regarded as a with Panama, and is a strong declaration in favor of the principles of the Monroe doctrine. It is now positively certain that the canal will never be brought to completion by M. De Lesseps' French company, for the concession of the latter expires in 1892, and the Colombian

tension thereof to the company. But the Government is determined not to grant any ex Govemment, and; people here are extremely anxious that the canal should be finished by the United States, and express the opinion that it would be to the latter of the same importance that the Suez canal is to England A

GLASGOW, April zoth,

The Clyde sugar market is strong. Prices baversen 3 shillings to-day. Sugar is a shillings. market is less firm than early in the week. dearer than on Saturday last, although the Medium qualities are most wanted and are the rise has not yet been reached. The adrance rapidly bought. It is believed that the top

is due to the prospect of a scarcity in this year's crop.

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WASHINGTON, April 21st, Admiral Kimberly's official report of the great disaster at Apia on March 16th reached Wash, The Senate commission appointed to conductington yesterday. It contains very few new the trial of General Boulanger to-day privately facts, owing to the exhaustive story of the wrecks: examined General Saussier with reference to the which was received a week ago from the special charge that Boulanger had corrupted the officers correspondent of the Associated Press. The of the Paris garrison.

Le Gaulois says that the Princess de Sigan, a noted leader of fashion, has been hitten by a pet monkey which has since died from hydrophobia The Princess is about to visit Pasteur,

Admiral, however, shows that some injustice was done to Captain Kane of the British man-of-war: Calliope, as, Instead of refus ing assistance, be actually loaned a diving. apparatus that, was of great service in recovering - VIENNA, April 19th,

stores from the sunken vessels. The Admiral also warmly commends the conduct of Malletea An explosion occurred, in the Rothschilds in urging his followers to rescue the drowning colliery at Tiefblan, Austria, to-day. Five men and to assist in the recovery of stores from the were killed, two dangerously wounded and six ships. The Umatilla from Honolulu brought are missing.

to this port yesterday twenty-nine of the crew of BERLIN, April 17th the Fandalia, under the charge of Lieutenant Seve'c snowstorms are reported, In Slesia, Ripley... They were nearly all in good condition, The storms have added greatly to the distress The non arrival of the Monogahela at Samon caused by the recent floods

causes uneasiness in navy circles. The ship has been out over sixty days and no word of her Rose, April 17th:

arzival bas yet been received The Pope has not yet recovered from the ill- neas which attacked him on Monday,

SEMATEA DUBLIN, AD 21st,

Thirteen familles at Falcarragh who had been LONDONDERRY, April 17th, evicted, but returned to their homes, were again Professor Harrison, an Englishman, has been evicted yesterday morning. Barricades were committed to the Londonderry jail for trial at erected, but the police met no violent resistance, the Court of Sessions Tuesday next on a charge The proposed Nationalist demonstration at of assisting besieged tenants at Gweedore, While Piltown proclaimed by the Government, was being conveyed to fall bet was heartilly, chcesed held at Skouge, in the immediate vicinity of by the populace. The Sergeant who was in Piltown, the police Saying been completely our charge of the policemen andered his merkite witted. While the crowd, headed by a band of beat the devil out of them, and Fathers Gildea, music, was returning from the meeting they were Boyle, Conrbear, O'Brien and O'Shea and charged upon by the Hussars, but no one was reporter of the London Dally Naws were song)