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company. on the subject. He said his com

company, on the subject. He said his COM
pany i'll accordance with the statement Of
Its chairman at its last meeting, had issued
a circular to all the papers taking its
service, asking them to submit to increased
terms, which were pronounced necessary in
consequence of the heavy expenses in
CURED in collecting the enlarged
amount OF foreign news engendered by
the recent foreign complications ''The
newspapers, Baron Reuter- said, may have
taken some action upon the demand, but
we are unaware of any hostile movement
by the press" The officials of the Press
associations, which is an organization in
Guiding most of the provincial English
papers taking the Reuter- kilograms, say
they do not believe the statements made by
Vanity Fair.
1t is reported the Chinese gov eminent is
about to appoint an English barrister,
resident in London, legal adviser to
China on the international law of Europe.
Ten thousand dollars per annum will be
paid to the appontee as a salary, and his
duty will be to keep the Pekin govern
ment Instructed on all questions Of inter
national law that may arise in Europe af-
fecting
CHINESE INTERESTS.
A meeting of the Gordon memorial COM
mittee was held to-day in Marlborough
house. The Prince of Wales and the Duke
OF Edlnburg were present. 1t was decided
to abandon the project Of building and en-
lowing a Gordon memorial hos
pital at Port Said, to be
free for the i'll and injured
OF all nations, and seek some
new and more satisfactory form for the
proposed memorial. 1t was finally decided
to request each member Of the committee to
send in to the next meeting his advice in
writing as to the best and most enduring
monument possible to erect in Gordon's
honor, statues of any kind being barred by
the unanimous voice of the metropolitan
meeting at which the memorial committee
was appointed.
Dispatches from Paris this evening say
that Victor Hugo's will bequeathes the
copyrights to the poets, and theatrical
works to Paul Meurice. the dramatist, and
the copyrights to his other literary works to
Auguste Vacquerie, who married HugO's
daughter, Josephine. So immense has
been the demand for flowers by the admir-
ers Of
THE DEAD POET
for tributes at his funeral that the result is
already flower famine in Paris. Tenny-
son has sent diadem composed of Irish
lilies. Politicians of all shades of
opinion are sending floral tributes to
the dead poet The ladies of
Mulhausen, in Alsace, will send a gift a
of flowers. Lockroy, Hugo's son-in-
law, writes to the ROppel that the multi
tude OF kilograms OF sympathy received by
the poets family, from Spain and Italy. is
a proof of the union of the Latin races.
The working classes in Paris have no SYM
pathy with the communist movement, and
it is hoped that their influence will be able
to preserve peace at Mondays ceremony.
Sixty cases of cholera have occurred in
the province of Valencia. Spain. and there
are several cases of the disease in the city
OF Valencia. A commission, consist
ing Of four doctors has been
appointed to investigate the system of inOc-
ulation with
CHOLERA MICROBES,
as discovered by DR.. Ferron and practiced
by him, to examine persons who have been
inoculated and to report whether or not the
system entails any danger. The commits
sloners will accompany Dr.. Fenon through
the province Of Valencia, where large
number of persons have been inOculated.
Emperor William has ordered the Ger
man government to purchase the ancient
castle of Dankwarderode, near Brunswick,
which was the original seat of the Guelph
family. The castle will be restored and
converted into museum for the display of
historical relics. The Brunswick chamber
of deputies has voted $50. 900 to be applied
as part Of the purchase money.
United States Minister Phelps and his
wife have been entertained in London by
Mrs. Bloomfield Moore and Miss Hugh
Hallet. Many distinguished persons We're
present at each reception, including William
Waldorf Olster, Robert Browning and
Leighton Sullivan. At one of the recep-
tons Miss Lea OF Philadelphia recited one
of Brownings poems. MI. Phelps was
warmly welcomed.