Connecticut western news., 1889-05-22
FOREIGN HAPPENINGS.

The Radical members of the House of Commons propose to give banquet in honor of Senator Sherman on his arrival in London.
 MT. Gladstone has received addresses of sympathy signed by the Governors, Sena. tors, representatives and other State off cials of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Mrs. Maybrick, who was arrested at Liv- erpool, Eng, on the charge of poisoning her husband, has been lodged in jail. Arsenic has been found in beef tea which she prepared for her husband, and also in a bottle.
 The Czar has addressed to M. Durnovo, the new Minister of the Interior, reecript in which he eulogises the late Count Tolstoi, and charges his successor to continue his policy. It is reported that General Ignatieff will be appointed Chief of the State Police for the purpose of assisting M. Durnovo in the performance of his duties. -Le Paris says that the French Govern ment has decided to introduce in Parliament a bill 10 aid tho Panama Canal Company.
 The Vienna police have forbidden meet ing called by nti-Semtic members of the Municipal Council of that city to discuss the Semitic question.
 The Vatican has united the dioceses Of Alleghany and Pittsburgh.
 The French Board of Trade returns for the month of April showa decrease of 5, !22,- OOOf. in imports, and an increase of 20,463, . 0OOf. in exports, as compared with those of April, 1888.
 Judge von schmerling, President of the Supreme Court of Austria completed his six tieth year in office, Emperor Francls Joseph, accompanied by large number of high officials, waited upon the Judge in per son and rendered his congratulations.
 The British ship Altmore, Capt. Weeks J from Sydney, Ms. w., April 5, for San Fran-| cisco, has been wrecked at Neiral, an island in] the South Pacific. The Captain and DOT ton ofthc crew have landed at Lcvuka. The first officer was drowned. boat containing the remainder of the crew and the passengers is missing.
 -Coningsby Dieraeli, nephew of Lord Beaconsfcld, made his first public speech at Bath. He denounced home rule.
 The Industrial Exhibition was opened at Hamburg. The city is gayly decorated ln honor of the occasion.
 It is stated at Cettinjc, the capital ot Montenegro, that Christians are being mas sacred by Turks on the Montenegrin frontier.
 Queen Mary of Bavaria, mother of King Otto, died from tlropsy and cancer of tho liver.
 Tho House of Commons, by n vote of 201 to 1GO, rejected Mir. Labonchcre's mo- ton to abolish hereditary seating in the House of Lords.
 Rufus Pope son of the late Canadian Minister of Railways and Canals, was elected to the House of Commons from Compton, his fathers cons sttuency.
 The Canadian Government has received copy of the treaty with Mexico ratified Feb. II last. Canada has two years in which to declare whether or not sle desires to nyai herself of tho provisi ons of the treaty.
 -lne Drltlsn wal ship Emerald arrived at Halifax, N. s.. for Bermuda. A dispatch from Zanzibar to the London Times says that an officer and two seamen belonging to the German war ship Schwalbe, dave been killed by insurgents at Bagamoyo.
 A deputation of students from Paris vis- ited Boulanger in London. Speeches were made on behalf of the students, expressing | confidence in the patrio tism of the General.
 The funeral of Count Tolstoi, late Min. tster of the Interior. has taken place. The i'zar was present. He has given the widow 200, 900 roubles and guaranteed her a yearly pension of 1000 ronbles
 Canadian Clearance Fees.
 It is understood that the Canadian Gov, ernment will accede to the demand of the
 American shippers the great lakes, that the clearance fees on American vessels enter ing and leaving Canadian ports be reduced to 50 cents each way on vessels of any ton mage. Last summer, without any cause, the Canadian Government, under an order in council, increased this fee to J0 cents on all VCSsPIS OI CCn COnS uIu unuer, anu %l TOT all
 vessels over ten tons. American shippers objected, but no notice was taken of theit protest. The Government at Washington was appealed to with the result that a de. mand was made on the Canadian authorities to reimpose the former fee of 50 cents for all vessels, It appears that in 1861 an order i'll Council was passed fixing the clearance fee at 50 cents for all vessels of ten tons and under and $1 for vessels of over ten tons burden In 1871, by mutual consent of the United States and the Canadian Governments, the fee was reduced to 59 cents for all vessels Last summer the Minister of Customs, ap- pnrently forgetting the agreement arrived at in 1871, remposed the fec charged prior to | that date.