, 1894-03-14

The RESIGNATION of Mr.. Herbert =. Gardner,
as President of the Board of Agriculture, IS
denied. and it is now asserted that Mr.l1er,ert
Gladstone will succeed Mr.. q Shaw Lctevre as
First Commissioner of Works not Mr. Bryce
as reported on the 9Th instant. 1T IS also
stated that Mr.. Herbert Gladstone IS to be
appointed a membrr Of the Privy Council.
Lord Tveedmoulh is to receive the appoint
ment Of Lord Priyy Seal with a seat III the
Cabinet.
Nj. r. C. Monro Ferguson NJ P 6or Leith
will succeed Mr.. Ellis as a junioF Lord Of
the Treasury.
Advioes from Assam report that Captain
Maxwell has been compelled to retreat be-
fore the Abors in that country. 1t is also
stated that thirty native troops and tour
British officers have been massacred.
Mr.. stophcr FLrness NJ. p. has called
the attention Of the Secretary of State tor
Foreign Affairs 10 the kilograms received from
Rio reporting the distress and fatalities from
the yellow fever epide lic as terrible, but
that the English navy refuses any assistance,
although it was being rendered by the
American navy.
# il announced that Sir Frank Lascelles,
British Minister to I ersia, has been appointed
Ambassador to Russia,
in further reference to the tarlH announc-
ed by the Finance 0millCeo y q ~
Yesterday, the following duties have been re-
commended Iron ore, forty cents per Ton;
Cinars. five dollars per tn usand internal re-
venue applicable solely to domestic product,
Cocoa. five per cent ad valorem; Cocoa butter,
fifteen per cent ad valorem; bananas, Cocoa
nuts. Pine Apples, twenty per cent al valorem;
besides hundreds Of other changes, all OF
which alc, however. still subject to the action
Of Congress.
New York traders are Of opinion that the
proposed Sugar tariff prejudices West Indlan
varieties ald favors Java Beet and other
classes of Sugar testing high by analysis but
evading duties levied by the polariscope.
Barbados. 12rh-"Atrato" passengers tr
St. Thomas-Ml. Curwen, Mrs. Collier, MI
Lyons
London. March l2th.-It is announced
that Colonel Bosworth has been selected
to command the LIST Battalion west lhola
Regiment in West Africa vice the late Coi0nel
Ellis. whose death from fever was reported on
the 8th instant.
New York, March 12th.-London news
announces the marriage of Miss virginia
Bonynge of California to Viscount DeerhufsC'
eldest son Of the Earl Of Coventry.
If is reported that Sir Henry Mortimer
Durand Foreign Secretary to the Government
Of India, has received the appointment OF
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary to Persia. succeeding SIT FRANK
Lascelles promoted Ambassador to Russia.
Mr.. James Theobald, M. 7. for Rcmford,
has been accidentally killed by falling under
a railway train.
1t is announced that Viscount Oxenbndge,
Master of the Horse, has resigned his ap-
pointment.
A late despatch from Assam states that
The column under the command OF Capt.
Maxwell is safe.
Paris advices state that the shareholders
of the Panama Canal have resolved to pro-
mote the plan proposed by M. Bartissol as
reported in news published On 9th ultimo.
The Chamber Of Deputies have resolved
to consider M. Montaut's Bill asking for an
enquiry into the Panama Canal affairs,
especially with reference to the liquidation
scandals
A telegram from Berlin reports that
the second reading of the Russian treaty has
passed the Reichetag by a vote OF 200 10 l4O.
A despatch from Cannes states that the
Prince Of Wales yacht britannia has won
the prize given by the Yacht Club OF France.
The New York Herald reports that the
State Department will ask England to,'ex-
plain the landing of a British force at Blue
fields vide news Bulletin of 8th instant.
The Boston Towboat Company's Wrecking