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There is reported to be great grief in France
over the reported resignation of Minister Nor
ton.
Reports Of ship-building in Great Britain for
1854 show the enormous falling of nearly $780,
GOO tons.
The French senate has adopted a clause of
the budget establishing the principle of taxa
ton of religious bodies.
The stage name Of Sir Spencer Ponsonby-
Fame. one of the most distinguished amatuer
actors in London, is "Mr. s Whitehead"
The British annexation of st. Lucia Bay will
probably increase colonial differences. The
German explorer Finwald, now in Zu Zuland
writes that no acquired . treaty right in Lucia
Bay with 10000 acres from the king of Zu Zu-
land.
Victor schoelcher, of the French senate, cor
setedto wasp-lke tenuity and wearing the peg
top trousers and high collar of the period of
lSS0-a representative dude of the last genera
tion-is described as resembling q living and
moving problem of Euclid.
At the last council Of ministers Bismarck
raised the question of the dissolution of the
reichstag. The council considered the presen,
moment incpportune and decided to wait fur.
Their hostile manifestations before throwing the
COuutIy lutO y lfesu 6lGCuOQ lever. - .H
The story is told that the emeralds which
adorned the crown of the Empress Eugene
were false. The crown was among the jewels
at the government sale in Paris. The bogus
emerslds were purchased by an English
nobleman for 44O, 600, and the money paid
the ex-empress for her claims to the emeralds
as personal property. The money, however,
WAS returned when it was found that the
e.narA16a wara OpIv ipoito fiopc I;o,, ~ ns,nr+e
that the empress was aware of the deception.
Monday was Gladstone's seventy-ffth birth.
day. The occasion was celebrated with great
festivity at Hawarden. Birthday greetings
reached The great leader from all parts Of the
country. The prince. Of Wales sent his cordial
congratulations. Many liberal bodies took ad-
vantage OF the day to present the grand old
mon" with addresses expressive of continued
confidence and profound admiration. Tho
newspapers, without distinction of party, de-
vote leading articles to the eulogy Of the great
statesman.
Entente cordiale has been arranged between
France and Germany for the naturalization of
the territory Of the African International asso.
citation. Bismarck has undertaken to present
. declaration to the Congo conference ~favoring
an international protectorate over the associ-
atoms territory. Jurisconsults KusseroH and
Engelhard have been instructed to draw up
the declaration, and also prepare q statement
that tho principles governing civilized states
must be observed in future annexations in the
Congo region without being settled by govern
mental Authority.
Official reports show that 266 persons were
killed in the provinces Of Malaga and Granada
by tho recent earthquake. Thu population of
Granada is still encamped in the squares, the
richer classes lodging in carriages along the
promenade. The facade of tho cathedral was
seriously damaged Many houses were de-
stroyed in Aimena, and a whole family was
killed in the village of Cajar by a falling CHM
eney. Over half the inhabitants Of Albsnucha
were killed. Albania is mostly IN ruins. The
province OF Malaga suffered equally - much
damage as Granada. Commerce is paralyzed.
I've hundred houses at Alfarnejo were dam
aged The panic is subsiding. The shock was
not felt IN the northern and northwest provin-
ces. The government has granted 5000 from
the national calamity fund for the relief of the
sufferers in the province Of Granada
Marquis Tseng has warned Granville that
the sale to France Of Several vessels of the
Castle and Monarch lines, now trading between
England and the Cape of Good Hope, for the
purpose Of transporting French troops to
China is a breach Of neutrality. The English
government advised the owners of the vessels
that no invasion of the foreign enlistment act
would be permitted A semi-oficial denial Of
purchase by the French government is not be-
lieyed. Cabot, brother-in-law OF III. Rouvier,
minister Of commerce, had charge of the nego.
tiations for the purchase of the vessels. The
Intransigeant charges that the transaction was
= piece OF Official robbery. It is reported Ferry
has recalled Patenotre, French minister to
China, and that the French counsel at Ten
Tsin has been ordered to Shanghai The lat
ter's departure from Tien Tsin sewers French
relations With China