, 1894-10-27

80 to 100.
Paris Journals generally are Of opinion
that the Ministry is Secule until the Budget
is brought forward.
1t is reported that many Anarchists are
fleeing to the United States to escape the
Police.
From Washington it is announced that the
Treasury have officially declared that salt
from Cuba, Bonsire, st. Eustache, St. Mar
TINS, Saba, Calcos and Turks Island will he
admitted free.
London, Oct. 24th-sugat in stock on the
10Th inst. was 81 900 tons. Last year So, 900
tons.
London, Oct. 25th- Sir Henry Blake,
Governori in Chief of jamaica and Sin Frederick
Napier Bloome, Governor III Chief Of Trinidad.
with their respective families, sailed yester.
day by R NJ ). Para from southampton.
New York, Oct. 25tIl-The race tF the
Cambridgeshile stakes run ut Newmarket
yesterday resulted as follows Indian Queen
lat, Gangway 2nd, CaIjstrate 3rd. The
winner started at 20 to one against.
A telegram from Aberdeen reports that
the Swedish schooner Alene. laden with gun
powder, exploded off Peterhead, and within
two minutes only s~plinters from the vessel
were visible, the Grew having totally disap-
peared.
Dispatches from tile East report that ia
pan has rejected the new peace proposals ac-
ceptable by China, but at same time demands
hat negotiations be conducted at Hiroshima,
to be attended by formally accredited en-
voys.
Latest war advices from the East state that
thirty thousand Japanese troops were en-
gagged during the attack upon Port Arthur.
Official information from ST. Petersburg re-
ports that an imperial decree has been Issued,
which has established the succession to the
throne according to news published on the
28rd lust.
A despatch from the Madrid correspondent
OF a London paper staoes that the finance
COMMITTEES of the Cortes have resolved that IL
gold standard Of currency be adopted for
Porto Rico, the Mexican dollar to circulate
merely at its weight value.
A despatch from the Rome correspondent
Of a London paper reports that there is Il
deficit of sixty million lire in the budget, to
cover which the Government proposes now
taxes to tho extent Of forty million lire, the
balance III the deficit to be covered by strict
economy.
1t Is announced from the Vatican that the
Pope has opened a conference upon the re-
union of the Eastern Churches with the Holy
See.
New York, lOot. 26th.-London news re.
ports that at the Sheffield Cutters banquet
yesterday, Lord Rosebery, in a speech, stated
that Great Britain felt the greatest possible
interest In the Cars health, because it was
the greatest guarantee of the peace of Eu-
rope, but which III the event OF his death
would cease to exist. He further stated that
the Cablnet Council scare was ridiculous, and
that England was not to be rebuffod by tire
Powers regarding China'S peace proposals,
1t being England's interest to preserve the
Chinese dynasty.
In conclusion he stated that the friction
between England and Franco regarding
Colonial questions was being allaye6,and that
there had been no dispute between the two
Governments over the Madagascar quss-
ton.
Mr.. j. Carv6ll Williams, Nj P. for Mans
field, in an address to his constituents yester-
day, declared that the Government had
pledged to him that the Welsh Church Bill
would be the first measure brought forward
before the commons on that body re-assem-
bling. Q
1t is reported that the American Liner
s. s. Paris when off Bishop Rock collilsd
with an unknown vessel. The Paris lay
to for some time, but no wreckage being
visible it is believed the vessel sunk inn
modIatelVy The 9 & Paris orriva1 IN. MORT