, 1888-04-07
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROTX STANTON.

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state that the new Cabinet has been
formed, with NJ. Floquet as President OF
the Council and Minister for the Interior.
The other portfolios are filed ~ follows:
N. Goblet, Foreign Affairs; NJ de Freyci.
net, Minister for W.; Admiral Krantz,
Minister of Marine; NJ. Picard, Mil ster of
Justice; nj. Peytral, Minister of Finance;
NJ. Lockroy. Minister Of EducA i'm VI.
Loubet, Minister of Works; NJ. VIette,
Minister of Agriculture; NJ. Legrand,
Minister of Commerce.. NJ. Ro Ivier declin-
ed the portfolio of Finance.
The United States new Tariff Bill has
been reported. 1t is proposed to modify
the reduction on sugar in order to satisfy
the Southern democrats, and to check the
sugar trusts. The debate is fixed for the
18th instant.
1t is stated that the Danish Exposition
will be opened on the 18th May.
New York, April 4th.-Dospatches from
Rome report that the Abysslnians have
diSbanded, and are in retreat.
NJ. Ferry's friends are attacking M.
Floqnet, whom they accuse of coquettlng
with the BOulangeristS. The Ministers
OfJuStice and Public Works have resigned.
N. FerrOnillat and NJ. D~elunSmOntaud sue
Ceeding to their respective portfolios. 1t
is understood that the cause of disagree
ment with their colleagues was the policy
for the revision Of the Constitution
NJ, FlOquet read the programme of the
new Cabinet in the Chamber of Deputies
yesterday, for which he asked the support
of the united Republicans. He said ho
favOured reforms and the preservation of
the peace, and declared that the nation
was more concerned respecting the Ques-
tons of finance and trade, the care of the
working men, the army, and the interna-
tiOnal position than with mere questions OF
political procedure.
NJ. Clememeeau is ahead of his cOmpeti-
tors in the second ballot for the Presidency
of the Chamber. A third ballot is neces-
Sary.
London, April 4th.-Sugar in stock OH
The 31st ultimO was 226,O 900 tons. Last
year 2O3 900 tons.
New York, April 5th-PariS dispatches
state that NJ. Meline, Deputy for the
V0Sges. has been elected President of the
Chamber. He received the same number
of votes as NJ. Clemencpau, but was pre-
ferred because be was an older member.
The Chambers were then adjourned
until the 10Th instant. NJ. Pyat objected
TO vacations on the ground that the people
cannot take vacations.
Only the Radical papers approve of M.
FlOquetS programme.
The Committee on the Panama Canal
proposal are equally divided, and therefore
unable to recommend the Chamber to-
grant permission for Che issue Of a lottery
loan.
Mr.. Morley, in the course of a speech at
Newcastle, declared that the country was
undergoing a transformation understood
but by few. lie criticized the defects in
the Local Government Bill and the Bud
get. The petty tax Oh champagne, he said,
would irritate France without much profit
to England.
1t is stated that Morocco has declined
to submit to the demands of the United
States Government regarding the prisoners
under consular protection, and that an
American war vessel has been ordered to
Tangiers.
New York, April 6th.-At the meeting
Ofthe Sugar Conference, which reassem bled
in London yesterday, Baron de Worms
announced the adherence of India and the
British Colonies to the proposals of the
Conference, adding that there was every
prospect of arriving at an agreement with
the European Powers.
The rumOur that Prince Bismarck would
resign if the Kaiser persists in marrying
his daughter Victoria to Prince Alexander
of Battenburg is cOn Armed.
NJ. de Freycinet, the new Minister for
War, has issued - circular to the com.