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LATEST NEWS.
rhe AusEraIia Brings Dates to the
Sd Inst. Inclusive.

Fhe Australia Brings Dates to the
Sd Inst.. Inclusive.
The steamship Australia arrived yes
terday from San Francisco with dates
to January Sd. Following is summary
The European Situation.
dispatch from Berlin, January 31st,
saps: Russia and the allied powers are
showing symptoms of amelioration. The
situation has become one of the greatest
perplexity, which nothing else than
some authoritive deliverance from the
Gar or Kaiser can clear up. If the New
Years imperial reception pass over IN
marked by explicit declarations giving
assurances of peace. it will be held as
certain that diplomacy has failed to
heck progress toward an open rupture.
General Won Schweinitz, German Am
bassador to Russia, has had frequent in
erviews with De Giers, one result of
yhich has been the arrangement for
utilization of the forged documents. But
1dging from the tenor of the article pub
shed in the North German Gazette
ae interviews have left the situation I'M
improved. No decisive diplomatic issue
u expected before the middle of Janu-
Try. After that events will develop with
lectric rapidity.
It is the opinion OF military circles that
Austria and Germany will agree upon
ae winter as the best time for cam
paign in Poland, and that if war must
be it should either commence in Febru-
ary or be deferred until June. While
the movements of troops in Poland are
Ceasing forces are being concentrated in
8essarabia, and this fact leads to the be-
lief that Russia either distrusts Rou
nanian neutrality or has other plans
than a campaign in Galicia. The forces
now massed along the Bender and
Odessa lines are estimated at $4,000
men, Several army corps are already
fully modified and stationed along the
Pruth and Duiesterer rivers and rail-
ways converting to Roumania. The
Black Sea fleet is being hurriedly
equipped for active service. The for
gives rise to a suspicion that the Gar
contemplates sudden descent on Bull
garia, while acting on the defensive to-
ward Gaicia. Gregor de Wolan, re-
Gently Russian Consul at Pesth, pub
fishes a brochure under permission of
the st. Petersburg censor, predicting
hat Hungary will become a Russian
province. The pamphlet, which ig
quoted by the Hungarian press, in
creases the eagerness for final arbitrate-
Enent of war.
heath of ex-Secretary Manning.
Daniel Manning, ex-Secretary of the
United States Treasury, died at Albany,
4. Y, December oath, after a life of
hard work and activity At Washing
ION the flags on all the public buildings
were placed at half-mast out of respect
20 Mr.. Manning, and President Cleve-
land sent sympathizing telegram to
was born at Albany, n. Y, August Is,
1881.
The Crown Prince.
In an interview December 31st, DR.
Mackenzie Seated that he was pleased
with the improvement in the condition
Of the Grown Prince Frederick William
DR.. Mackenzie said that he never adj
nlitted that the disease from which the
Crown Prince suffered was cancer. The
only statement which he had made
which could be so construed was last
November, when he said the new growth
as apparently cancer-like. The micro
cope, by the use of which alone can
the nature of the disease be ascertained,
80 far shows that it is not malignant.
The malignant symptoms manifested in
November have passed away. Dr. Mac
kenzie said, however, that if the disease
- not cancer it is certainly protracted.
miscellaneous.
Queen Victoria has decided not to go
to London at the commencement of the
session, so Parliament will be opened on
Thursday, February 9th by commission.
The London Standards" correspond
ent says: In an interview, December
goth, with NJ. Mateus, the Colombian
Minister declared that neither nv threat
nor cajolery would his Government be
induced to allow America to have any
thing TO do with the Panama canal. even
II De Lesseps failed to complete the