Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-06-18
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Fatal Explosion on a British Iron.
clad.

LONDON, June IS A dispatch from Galetta.
Iun1s, to Reuters telegram company says: An
1Tonclad steamer Monarch, while preparations
were making for torpedo practice An officer
was Killed, and several sailors were injured.
HE AngiO.French Commercial Ne.
gOtiatiOns.
The Times In It's financial article this morn.
ing says: We believe tt Is contemplated to sus-
pend tie meetings OF the Anglo-French COM
mission 1or negotiating new commercial
missioners have low had under consideration
the main facts as to the effect of a rev general
tarln, AID the notifications the French con-
missioners are authorized TO propose on the
principal trades interested, and their consider
alton have go far been without result.
Mr. keene Gets the Grand Prize.
The Paris correspondent OF the Sportsman
says: the report about an objection to Mr..
keene's Foxhall as winner OF the grand prize
OF Paris, is entirely untrue The Nc ssrs
Weatherby had all the requisite papers includ-
Ing the veterinary certificate OF Foxhalf al
though the French Jockey club does not re-
qui1e that certificate shall be lodged In Paris
when entries are made abroad. Not only has
no formal objection been made but remit
fance for the amount OF the grand prize has
been sent TO the Messrs. Weatherby to be ad-
ded to Mr. keene's account.
An Inlerna tIOnal Row i'm Marseilles.
A dispatch from Marseilles, dated at mid.
night says: As the troops that had just disem-
barked On their return from Tunis were
marching tnrOugn Rue RepuDlique misses Were
heard from The Italian National club. A
crowd surrounded the club house and de-
manded the removal OF the Italian eScutcheon
from the building. The commissary of police
ADVISED its renewal, but the president Of the
club peremptorily refused TO have fu removed
The prefect Of police endeavored to calm the
crowd ard sent for gendarms but before their
arrival the deputy Mayor. and a municipal
councillor in spite OF the protests OF the pre-
feet tore down tEe escutcheon. The crowd
wes afterwards dispersed and the approaches
to the club house occupied by troops.
The Attempt to Blow Up the Liver
pool Town Hail.
L1yERPoOL, June 1S.-McKevitt and McGrath
who are charged with attempting to blow up
the town hall here on the 9th inst, were exam.
lied by the government to-day. The prosecut.
ing solicitor said he did not intend to go into
the question OF fenianism, as the case would
stand On its own merits. McKevitt, he said,
had denied any connection With the fenfans,
but the regular delivery at bis lodgings
OF the Irish World with his printed
address as though he was regular subscriber
would be proved. An analytical chemist had
ascertained that the bomb used In the attempt
was filled with nitro glycerine. McGraths
landlady, he said, would prove that he (Mc-
Crafty posse STD iron piping similar to the
bomb and that he had been secretly engaged In
hanmeTing something.
Guests of the Governor General.
QUI BEG, June 1S.-LOrd G. 7. Montague ami
w. M. de BunseD, esq OF the British legation
at washington, DC, have arrived here ana are
the guests Of The governor general at the CIT
adeL