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presidency Of the Worlds ERir Commits
sion, which hen Grant abandoned,
fhe trial Of Supervising Steamboat
Inspectors Jayne md Matthews. charged
with manslaughter In failing to have
properly inspected the steamship Sea
wanhaka, by the burning of which last
summer fifty lives were lost, was com
menced March Is in New York. and it
IS expected to last two or three weeks.
The alarm respecting the visit Of the
Prince and Princess of Wales to ST. Pc
tersburg continues, though little public
mention is made Of it. 1t is known
that warnings covering explicit infomna-
tion from the st. Petersburg police were
received before and since there depar-
tnre. General Melikof declines TO an
swer for their safety, though he gives
assurance that every precaution will be
taken.
The new Charleston IS. C) Cotton
Manufacturing Company, with capital
OF 100000 has been organized Among
the directors are w. II. Baldwin, Of
Baltimore, and O. II. Sampson, of Bos-
ton. The remaining seven directors are
prominent business men of Charleston.
F0REIGN NEWS.
Further details Of the fire in the
Italian Opera House at Nice show that
the loss of life will reach very nearly one
hundred, ut which it was first estimated.
Seventy bodies have so far been re-
covered, and it is known that more are
bu11ed under the ruins of the theatre
which wsss completely DESTROYED - 4
e tlto'h9h was offered in the House Of
commons sensuing Mr. Gladstono,s
Afghan policy in Abandoning Cfa1,daIsa,.
it was antagonized by the Liberal mem
bers with motion of confidence in the
ministry, and the debate commenced
The daughter of a counsellor to the f
of Domain has been arrested at .
-. Petersburg, and confesses to com
phclty III the plot to assassinate the Gar
when his train was blown up on the
Moscow Railroad. and also to having
given the signal for the first bomb TO be
thrown on the day when he was killed.
Negotiations are ended at Constant
lople, and Turkey is actively preparing
.or war
The Candahar debate was resumed in
he House OF Commons, and Mr.. Stan
hopes motion against the evacuation
of Candalar was rejected amid cheers !
rom the Liberals The trial of the al
legged assasins of the Gar has begun.
The Ottoman delegates have pre-
5ented their final proposal with re-
ference to the settlement of the Greek
question to the Constantinople confer
ence. No part of Epirus is comprised
in the proposed line, The ambassadors
will communicate the reply to their gov
crnments, after which another confer
ence will be held.-Between sixty and
eighty lives We're lost by the late disas-
ter at Nice. The deficit in the East In I
dian budget for 1SS0-1 is estimated at
Sc, 269, ,O0O-A banquet was given NJ.
Gambetta by the Union of Trade
Emperor Alexander IT., of Russia,
was placed in the imperial vault in the
Petropaulovsky Cathedral, ST. Peters
burg, artillery salutes being fired dur
ing the ceremony. The new Gar has
issued a manifesto providing that, i'll the
event of his death during the minority
of his son, the Grand Duke Vladimir
shall be Regent of the empire. The
London Neus states shat Great Britain
has made two propositions regarding
the fishery difficulties, one of which
will probably be accepted by the United
States.
Greco-Tmkish war talk and warlike
preparations are on the increase-Ihe
situation in Afghanistan is not favorable
TO the early evacuation Of Candahar-
Three -Irishmen are implicated
in the Mansion House gnnpowder plot
in London The Russian press stlllurges
the union OF European powers against
intelnationalism -Potchefstroom, South
Africa, surrendered to the Beers the day
peace was signed, after battle in which
is British were killed and 80 wounded
The dispute between England and the
United States concerning the Fortune
bay outrages is to be referred to arbitra-
tion-A treaty Of commerce and nayiga-
tion between Spain and Chill will short
" be cousummated Plots to assasslnate
the Pope and Prince Frederick William
of Germany are reported.
NLvIth CONGRESss=-SpecinI Session.