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FOREIGN.

The contractor for raising the GrOssel
Kurfuerst has signed contract to raise the
| POmerania.
Chief-Justice Monahan, Attorney Gen.
eral during the Irish troubles of 1913, is
| dead.
President Alcantara, Chief Magistrate Of
| Venezuela, died on November 30, and j
| Nuitterez, Chief Justice OF the High FEEDER
al Court, is acting President.
| Count Gutenberg, in the Prussian Diet on
the 9th, delivered a speech which caused
much excitement, and was the cause of uni
versal comment. The Count, in advocat ne
! the declaring Of Berlin in state of siege
said the Government was in possession OF
| information Of an important character,
which could not, at present, safely be made
public. All that could be said was that the
Government believed in the existence of a
secret revolutionary organization, bent up
On the overthrow of the King
dom and Of the Empire, using assassination
as its weapon, and working in the dark.
The people Of Berlin should make up their
minds to trust the Government fully, to
give it the extraordinary power for which
it asked, and not to shrink from the tempo
rary sacrifices which they are called on to
make for the preservation of the peace OF
society, and for the extirpation of the wick
ed and misguided men who sought to bring
on a reign of anarchy and ruin.
Col. B. Haumier was elected President,
and Or. Ewelti Vice. President, of the Swiss
Confederation for 1879.
Advices have been received from Mogador
that terrible famine prevails there; deaths,
% daily.
In the House Of Commons, on the 18th.
Sir Stafford NOrthcote, replying to the in
quiry in reference to his statement that the
Russian Envoy had left Cabul, said he had
since been given to understand that only the
Russian Envoy, not the Russian Mission,
hsd been Withdrawn from Cabul. He de-
clared that England had not acquiesced, and
would not acquiesce, in Russian interfer-
ence in Afghanistan in that or any other
form.
A special to the Advertiser from Bombay
says the Afghan officials have arrived in
Gen. Brownies camp from Jellalabad and
invite the British to advance. TO Cabul and
establish new Government in consequence
of a general rising against the Amer.
A dispatch from Dakka says that it is re-
ported that the Ameer has blown the com
mandant of AliMusjid from a lannon's
mouth.
King Humbert is advising with Signor
Depretis concerning a new ministry.
The French Chamber OF Deputies adj
jOurned sine die on the 18th, after empow-
ering Grevy to summon them to meet in the
event Of necessity.
Gustav Rouland, French statesman, is
dead.
A dispatch from Pesth, the 18th, says the
that 10000 Bulgarians have fled from the
Valley Of Strumza, in Macedonia, to Bulga-
rian territory. This leaves no doubt that
the Turks have mastered the Macedonian
instruction in that quarter.
A correspondent at Berlin says Russian
exploring expedition from Fort Vernoye,
was fired on by Chinese troops and compelled
to return.
Queen Victoria is reported as being seri-
ously i'll.
The officials and notables Of Jellalabad
have arrived at Dakka, to tender their SUBJ
mission and service to the British.
The news from Cabul to the I4th repre-
sents that the eight regiments Of the Afghan
infantry there have shown a Discrimination
to fight.
A correspondent at Vienna states that a
majority Of the Committee OF Eighteen, APP
pointed by the Reichsrath on the 10th inst,
TO consider the treaty of Berlin, are favora-
bic TO the treaty.
The Grand Duchess Of Hesse Darmstadt |
Princess Alice of England, died at 1880 the |
Of the 14th Of diphtheria. The |
Grand Duchess was the third child and Sec /
ond daughter Of Queen Victoria. She was /
born April %, 1913. Her father, the late /
Prince Albert, died Saturday. December IA, I
1861. The Princess was in state Of uncon-
'ciousness from 2:30 a. m. until the time Of 1
her death.
Paris dispatches report that Count
accession 10 the Ministry Of
he Interior will inaugurate regime which
hall give effect to the constitution the Car
the Count TO draw up while at
.evadea.
The Spanish Cortes has passed the bill au
horizing loan of 25O,OOO,OoO pesetas.
Earl Ferdinand Gutzkow, German dra-
nstie poet, is dead.