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FOREIGN NEWS.
The Holy Coat to be Ex-
hibited in August.
BIOGRAPHY OF Won MOLTKE.
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy and
Switzerland Form a Great
Customs League.

Hog cholera is on the increase in Great
Britain.
Germany will send two men-of-war to
Chinese waters.
Austria will build more forts TO scare
off the Russians.
Emperor William will edit the biogra-
| ply of Won Moltke.
Kaiser William will buy Carl Schurz'
brother-in-law's country seat.
Diamonds Of the purest transparency
have been found in British Guiana.
French and German goods are driving
those Of British make out of Russia.
Rudini says the dreibund compels
great armanents on the part of members.
A choir of twenty natives of South
Africa has gone to London to give con-
certs.
A deficit of $Sl 900 is shown in the
public accounts of Prince Edward Island
for the last year.
l. President Carnot in a letter to the
the latter's encyclical on social questions.
Count Munster will be retired from
the German diplomatic service at Paris,
and Count Won Wedel is to be his sue
cessor.
The sum collected in Germany for a
church to be erected in memory of the
late Kaiser William amounts to about
720, 900 marks.
Another Manipur Prince, Sana, has
been sentenced to death for warning
against the Queen and for abetting the
massacre OF her officers.
The French Chamber of Commerce
Committee declines to consider requests
to obtain the governments assistance to
complete the Panama canal.
1t is reported that Sir Charles Tupper
will be offered the seat in the House of
Commons for Kingston made vacant by
the death of Sir John Macdonald.
William Walter Phelps, the American
Minister, who has been quite i'll with in
huenza at Berlin, is still confined to his
bed. He has undergone painful opera
tion.
The report of the Leprosy Committee
at London, composed of eminent physi-
clans, gives hope for the discovery of a
care for this hitherto supposed irremedi-
able disease.
The French Senate rejected the bill
recently passed by the Chamber of Dep
uties remitting 60O0,000 francs of the
tax on land sown in wheat in the past
spring season.
Official opinion in France generally
tends against the prosecution of De Les
seps, but Constans says the public feel
ing demands that the famous engineer
be placed on trial.
Sailors are so scarce in England that
it is doubtful whether the intended ma
val maneuvers will be held unless suf-
ficient complement is obtained by the
detention of war ships destined for In
dia.
A nugget of gold weighing thirty-five
pounds has been found in the gold dis
trict recently discovered in British Gui-
ana, and has been sent to England as a
specimen of the auriferous deposits in
the colony.
The new model for the great national
monument to the late Kaiser William,
which is to be erected in Berlin near the
old royal palace of Schloss, will be ex-
hibited in the royal arsenal Unter den
Linden in July.
A dispatch from Calcutta states that
war is threatening in Asia between the
French and the Siamese Anamites, who
are tributary to France, and have already
come to blows with the Siamese troops
on the banks of the Mekgon.
Comte de Monticello, who replaces De
Laboulaye as French Ambassador at st.
Petersburg, will be specially charged to
obtain definite information from the
Gar as to the action of Russia in the
event of war between France and Ger
many.
The great event of the London season
will be the marriage of the Queens
granddaughter, Princess Aribert of An
halt, which will be celebrated at Wind
sor Castle July 6. The Queen has con-
tributed handsomely toward the brides
dowry.
Mr.. Spurgeon, with a number of other
ministers, has signed manifesto declar-
ing Tor thorough Calvlnlsm and accept
ing both Testaments, on inpiration and
Sabbath-keeping as the word of God,
saying the two must stand or fall to-
gether.
The Porte refuses to oe intimidated by
the threats of the French Embassy into
hasty action in the matter of the recent
riots at Jerusalem between Greek and
Roman Catholics. The Porte ignores
French interference, and is going about
the investigation in deliberate way.
The Home Rulers of Ireland expect
aid from the Queen. In one of her let
ters which she has permitted to be pub
lished it is intimated that she accepts
the verdict of the country on home rule
and will use all her power and personal
influence to prevent the Lords from OPP