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to issue a note shortly advising diplomatic
pressure in favor of Greece.

to issue note shortly advising diplomatic
pressure in favor of Greece.
Until Finances,Permit.
Constantinopie dispatch says the Porte
has informed Minister Layard that the pro-
posed reforms will be introduced in one prov
ince of Asia Minor, but the complete realiza-
ton Of the project will be postponed until
the strait of Turkish finances permits.
Resolved 10 Resist.
LONDON, Nov. 3.--The Oldham cotton op-
eratives Saturday unanimously resolved to
resist the proposed reduction of 10 per cent.
of their wages. Twenty thousand hands
and eight million spindles will be affected
by this action.
The London Observer, in a semi-official
paragraph, says it understands that the
statement that the British Government has
applied to other powers for assistance in en-
forcing the Berlin treaty is unfounded..
Germany and the Vatican.
A telegram from Rome says that negotia-
tons between the Vatican and Germany are
progressing slowly. Both sides are anxious
to arrive at a prompt settlement concerning
the diocese of Alsace and Lorraine which are
still administered as when they belonged to
France. The Vatican will take advantage of
the recent defeat of Radicals in Switzerland
to re-establish relations with that country.
Exiled Swiss bishops have already been
notified to return.
VIII BUY 1t.
1t is stated that Great Britain has con-
cluded to purchase Delagoa Bay in South
eastern Africa from Portugal for So, coo, 600.
Coins of India.
Private kilograms confirm the statement
that the Government of India contemplate
the adoption of gold currency, making En-
glish gold coin legal tender throughout the
country. The importation of bar silver will
probably be prohibited after given time.
and the rupee and other smaller coins used
as fractional currency.
Resigned.
ATHENS, Nov Am the chamber to-day
the new ministry moved as a test of conf
dence that the house adjourn for two weeks.
The motion was rejected 81 against so. The
ministers Immediately resi- med.
Periured Himself.
VERSAILLES, Nov. 4-The chamber of dep
uties has declared invalid the action of the
Bonapartist M. Leron. During the debate
M. De Paul Cassagnac was called to order
for interrupting one of the debaters, and say
ing there was nothing in common between
the Bonapartist and President Mcmahon,
since the latter had perjured himself.
Greeee and. Turkey.
ROME, Nov. 4-The Divitto states that
France has issued a note advising that diplo-
matte pressure be excited in favor of the
claims of Greece on Turkey. 1t states that
Russia and Germany have already consented
to mediate between Greece. and the Porte.
EngIand-s Useless Attempt.
BERLIN, Nov. 4.-The Post says: Eight
weeks ago when the treaty of Berlin was in
danger, Prince Bismark appealed to the sig
natories to defend it. England, who then
rejected the request, now appeals to Austria
and France, the supposed adversaries of Rus
sia, for the purpose of reyiving the Crimean
alliance. Such attempts are useless. Fur
thermore, England by fostering jealousies
certainly will not succeed in preventing
friendly relations between Bulgaria and
Greece.
Delivery of the British UItimatum.
SIMLA. Nov. 4-The British ultimatunl
was placed in the hands of Fasse Mahomed
Khan, an Afghanist commander, at Ali Mus
jid on the I'd inst, and copy at the same
time was posted at Peshawar to the ameer.
Sir Neville, a member of the vice regal coun-
Gil, accompanied the vice to Lahore.
The Fishery Question.
LONDON, Nov. 4.-The Pail Mall Gazette,
in leading editorial, says that the United
States should choose this precise moment to
publish what seems from telegraphic sum-
mary to be rather threatening dispatch ad-
dressed by Secretary Evarts to American
Minister Welch, can scarcely be regarded as
accidental All the world can see that we
have ON our hands just now quite as much
as we can well deal with, and really friend
ly power with a grievance like that whilst
holding to its position, would refrain from
casting the matter in an irritating way before
the public until our affairs have assumed a
more peaceful aspect. At any rate, this is
what, according to admirers of the Alabama
| arbitration, I'VE might certainly have expected
from America. The truth is, that while the
very party with which the bargain was made
still holds office in the United States, the
first opportunity IS seized to make point
against us just when it is reckoned that 9th.
er difficulties may force us to give away
Nothing else is to be expected, and for oul
own part we are inclined to thank Evarts fol
teaching our countrymen that nations gener
ally are no more inclined to forego their ad
yantages over one another in the nineteenth
century than in the eighteenth, seventeenth
sixteenth, or first. Let sentimentalists blam,
Evarts, for he has disappointed them, no
us. American newspapers of all shades ant
political opinion, without giving moment
consideration, let us hope to the fact tina
1 the quarrel has nothing whatever to no Will
an award of $5, 500, 900 made in favor o
Canada at Halifax, come forward with tn
contention that this money, due and lon,
overdue to US must not be paid until and un
less this new difference is settled in the wa
they think right. Nine million dollars Q
the Alabama indemnity still remains withou
any reasonable claimant, and here ar
5,500,0 900 more to be retained We shoul
have supposed that Americans could scarcel
afford to recall attention to various matter
relating to the Washington treaty and th
manner in which its provisions have bee
carried out; but then we too have a little ser
timent about us, for in truth the whole stor
is one of continued attempt at evasion, an
evasion of a somewhat shabby kind, and
curiously enough, advantage was taken {
the local regulations of the State of Ne
York to avoid compliance with one Of th
most important stipulations of the treaty i
favor of Canadian shipping.