The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-11-29
FROM OTHER LANDS.
Fresh Complications in the Franco
Chinese Difficulty.
The Tonquin Question to Bs Reopoaed-
Cholera Departs from Paris-North-
brooks Financial scheme
for Egypt Rejected.
GENERAL FOREIGN INvELI..oENtD

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LONDON, Nov. 26.-The Times Shanghai
dispatch says: 1.-THE action of the French
has driven China to reopen the Tonquin
question, and it Is asserted that she will
ask for English mediation. The Secre-
taries OF Prince Ii assert that they saw
Captain Fournisr, who negotiated the Tient.
tSin treaty for France, making erasures in
the treaty
The Pekin correspondent of the Times
telegraphS that the British Minister to
China is inactive, and that the breach is
widening between China and France.
Tsung Lii Yamen is calmly confident OF
China's powers, and has decided to reject
Captain Fournier's May Convention as a
basis for negotiations. This will reopen
the whole question.
BERLIN, Nov. A.--At yesterdays session
of the Congo Conference Committee Henry
M. Stanley and other experts expressed
their views. The Portuguese delegates took
exceptions to SANKEY'S statements and piled
him with questions, savagely attacking him
upon some. Mr.. Kasson proposed that the
Vcullt tllt UOuIludlltS vi tilt NOIl-
go basin, and the discussion was adjourned
until to-day The treaty between Germany
and the International Congo Association
promises the latter the two banks of the
Congo and the territory connecting the up
per Congo with the sea.
VALENCIA, Spain, Nov. 24.-At the
Princess Hheater last Tuesday night Miss
Leona Dare, the American acrobat, was
In nUinU hv har faat fba ~ ha
theater and holding in her teeth trapeze,
on which Monsieur George was performing
Miss Dare was seized by nervous
tit and dropped the trapeze. Monsieur
George fell to the floor, and was fatally in
jured. The audience became panic
stricken, and many persons were injured in
their rush to the doors. Miss Dare chung to
the roof, screaming Historically and was
rescued with difficulty after the panic had
ended.
LONDON, Nov 24-The Government has
arranged to subsidize mail routes ~ New
Zealand, alternating weekly between d.
rect route from London to Wellington and
steamers to New York, overland to San
Francisco and thence 10 New Zealand. This
arrangement cOntemplates the adjustment
of the Brindis route
PARIS, Nov. 24.-Admiial COurbet tele-
graphs from Keeling that IL detachment Of
400 French troops destroyed the Chinese
fort and other works on the road between
Keeling and Tamsn.
LONDON, Nov. 25.--In the Commons yes
terday, Callan, Liberal, gave notice that he
would call the attention of the House to the
extraordinary ruling of Judge Muiisty In
the libel case of Adams versus COleridge,
whereby the function, OF jurymen were
made "a mockcy II dc,usion aud "A snare. -
(Chcers.) Mr. Adams, through counsel,
will move before a full bench that the
court maintain the verdict OF the jury.
Judge Mansty's action on Saturday
has created great outburst of popular
wrath. The current strain OF newspaper
comment is that the Judge paid too much
Difference to the personal feelings of Lord
Colcridge. 1t Is declared that Judge
Manisty's conduct was al insult to the syS-
TEN of trial by jury.
PARIS, Nov 35.-From Sunday night "
six p. IN. yesterday there were six deaths
from cholera In the city. Eleven deaths
are reported from Oran ia the last forty
eight hours. In SPAIN twenty seven cases
and seven deaths arc reported from Toledo.
BERLIN, Nov. 25.--The West African
Conference has agreed that Tire mouth OF
the Congo shall be understood 10 comystse
the coast between the mouth Of the Sette
River on the north OF tho Congo alid the
Lege River on the south. The principle of
fres trade was guaranteed In the western
part of the Congo basin. Prince Bismarck
gave dinner last night In honor of Mr..
Stanley.
BERLIN, Nov 25.-The universities Of
Halle and Berlin have both conferred the
degree Of doctor of philosophy upon Henry
N. Stanley
LONDON, Nov. 25.--Great activity pre-
walls AZ WoOlwich in preparation Of stores
and munitions of war. Indications are that
the expedition TO Bechuanaland will 10
larger than has been expected. Several
battalons have been ordered to place them
selves in readiness for foreign service.
LONDON, Nov. 35.-Adyices from India
state terrible cyclone visited the Madras
Presidency, causing immense damage. The
dykes of Cholaveran Lake were bursied in
many places, with the consequent effect Of
stopping the water supply of the city Of
Madras.
DoNaoLA, Nov 26.-The British troops
are moving on to Handouk, twenty miles
south of here to avoid the smallpox,
which prevails here among the natives.
There are rumors Of an epidemic Of
cholera prevailing among the troops of
Mahdi in Kordofan.
LONDON, Nov. 26-1he Times says:
"The Cabinet has rejected Lord North |
brooks scheme regarding Egypt as whole.
The essential features of the scheme were
not embodied in the proposals reentIy sub
mitted to Europe
LONDON, Nov. 26-The new Egyptian
financial proposals were sent to the powers
Interested last night The scheme which
has boen adopted by the Cabinet insists up
on the reduction Of the interest OF the pub |
lie debt and upon the interes: apon the
shares in the Suez Canal held by English |
The Morning Post states that the pro- |
posals for the settlement of the Egyptian
debt, which have been sent by the English
Cabinet To the Powers, are: First All offer
to raise loan of "a, 600, 900, to he guar
anteed by England; second, the issue of
e, 900, 900 of preferred stock. with All
Egyptian security: third, the reduction OF |
the interest on the public debt to one half
per cent. The Posi- believes the scheme Ia
be acceptable TO English bondholders but
its acceptance by the powers Is very doubt
ful.