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lhStcau vi giving pension 10 LORDS
Wolseley and Alcaster for their services In the
late Egyptian campaign, they will be given
sum OF money. This change in the manner of
rewarding these military men is due 10 an out
cry made against the provisions of the pension
OIL, which provides that on the death of the
benehc1aries the pension shall revert TO their
nearest heirs.
The American consul at Toronto,
VIM. Z. Howells, father of the novelist, will
shortly resign and retire to private life.
Bismarck has issued n circular TO
Prussian provincial officials ordering an in
curry into the influence on the national wealth
Oh hrc insurance business which Is in the hands
OF private companies.
German dealers have not yet replied
to the charge made by the United States con-
sui at liege that oil, lard, -four, etc, imported
from America arc adulterated after their arriv
al in Germany.
The report that lyman, the mo. l.
OF "lnvincible' fame, is in London and want
ing to turn informer is denied.
In the German reichstag tho asser-
ton has been made that the existence Of re-
pubic In Europe was an impossibility, and that
the days OF the French republic were mum
bered.
Joseph Mullett, indicted for compiled
~ in the attempt on the life of Juror Field has
been found guilty and sentenced to penal servi-
any plea on the indictment, or even to accept
the assistance OF counsel offered him by the
court. When sentenced he maintained stolid
indifference, and said, ~ might as well be in
prison at hard labor as anywhere else"
Another Suez canal is talked of. Lon
don capital will aid in its construction.
Bismarck's physicians say he must
give up all state work for the present.
All of the dynamite conspiracy pris-
oners, except O'Conner, against whom suffi-
clent evidence has not been obtained, have
been committed for trial.
The pope is very much wrought up
over the action of the Catholic clergy in pro-
noting the Parnell fund.- and thinks such
things ought not to be.
There were 3,415 emigrants booked
for America from Queenstown for the one week
ending May 8.
During the revolutionary war Col.
Jacob Baker commanded troop of Hessians
and shortly after came into possession of $50
acres, now the heart of Philadelphia On a
farm near the village of Portland, on Rideau
Lake, Ont, live the family of q. w. Baker, a
nephew OF Col. Jacob Baker, consisting of five
girls and four boys. Il. w. Baker died In 1871,
| and since then they have made researches
which convince them that they have a good
claim on the estate Of 80 acres, worth many
millions of dollars. 4. A. Hall, of Perth. n
be heirs.
The North German Gazette ascribes
the election of the bill to increase the duty
on wood by the reichstag TO hostile votes of
Polish deputies, whose efforts, IL says, are
wholly directed towards the restoration OF the
kingdom OF Poland, and who favor every
measure detrimental 10 the empire and especi-
ally III, as in the present case, It Is advantage
Gus To their brethren IN Austria and Russia.
The opening of the international fish
cries exhibition at South Kensington, Eng
May IL, was witnessed by an enormously large
crowd OF people. The exhibition was opened
by the Prince of Wales, who expressed his great
pleasure at being able to assist at this cere-
nony and regretted that an accident unayoida-
bly, prevented the queen from being present.
He hoped the exhibition would be the means
OF bringing To the notice of the people the lat
est and most efficient methods of securing the
bounty of the streams, lakes and oceans, and
would thereby be of practical benefit to them.
he dwelt at some length on the importance of
the life saving section display and commended
IL to the attention of the people. In conclusion
he conveyed the thanks OF the queen to all the
countries and colonies taking part in the dis
play, and to their representatives. for their I'M
firing exertions in bringing the exhibition TO
| successful issue. He was warmly applauded.
The London Times feels very much
depressed over the gloomy outlook of affairs In
the United Kingdom.
The hygeinic exhibition Mt Berlin is
in progress. Prince Friedrich William opened
the exhibition