, 1896-12-05

mitfee into a single great appellate tribunal
of the entire Empire.
Extreme coll prevails throughout England.
and skating is general. Many deaths Of
traIapS and other, have occurred in different
lOcalities.
A despatch from Cape Colony >rcrorts that
Lord Rosmead (Sir Hercules Robins,tl. the
Governor i'll Chief. is suff ring f. IN an i, 'ack
of dropsy, aud that Il operation Is fouad TO
be necessary.
Another despatch states that at a public
3 anquet, Mr.. w. i. Schr4tuer. The Attorney
General OF Ctpe Colony. in a speech, declared
that he expected all the South African Gov
ernments will he united in single and indie
pendent Atric a,drr nation. The audience
WAS much s.artl,d at these remarks. and
strong r|rot,ste exciting Mn. Schreiner
into lau.u.-e fo. which later he a~pologized.
1t is annouacrd that Sir JaS pin Lister. the
Foreign Secretary Of the Royal Society. Lon
den. hao presented the ooci~ty's medal to
professor k5en'geu for his discovery Of the
cathode ray.
Advices from Berlin report that Vice. Adj
miral Holman, secretary Of State for the
Navy. informed the ReichstAg that he would
only ask for lv,nty million marks out Of he
thirty two million THAT we're annually neces
sary to replace old warShips.
Iu6 1 'Ito CotAtH liOlltenl Oh Il LJHtOll PhFcA
telSgraphs that The Minister Of Marine Is in
favour Of 8 sum Of forty million francs being
voted for new w~arships. 1t is believed,
however, that this proposal Will be modified.
Hamburg advices state that the strikers
now number fifteen thousand neu.
Latest news received in Havana, from
Pnst del Rio, reports that General Weyler
is uow in the vicinity If San Cristobal.
marching westward III search Of General
Maceo.
\ Washington despatch ,tate. that the
Republicans OF California are tryiug to unite
turIr efforts to induce 3r. Mckinley to nego-
tate an annexation treaty with Hawaii,
New YORK, Dec. 4th-Iptelligence from
CAIRO announces that the decision upon ap-
peal Of the Egyptian deb; commissioners
wide bulletin 10th June) directs the repay
ment Of tivs thousand pounds sterling.
The DAILY News publishes a despatch
from Cairo stating that it is expected Eng
land will advance the above sum and what
ever NOR, is necessary for the reconduest 81
the Soudau.
The ''SturIard. - in an editorial, expresses
the opinion that the DECISION il an absurd
one and destitute Of The faiptest sfsct on the
English policy, and considers that if England
viii pay according to The judgment. hor
position will be strengthened and her soiourn
IN Egypt prolonged, that Egypt is the only
portion Of Turkey that is not an insult to
humanity, therefore an English evacuation
would be a greater crime than proposing it.
The Daily Telegraph has opened a sub
%scription list for three Athousand pounds,
heading II with one hundred pounds, towards
a farewell gift to Mr.. Bayard the United
State>' Ambassador in England, the gift TO
consist Of ONE rare and precious. Chaucer and
Shakespeare manuscripts. 1t also ftIours
The idea of collecting the amount by obtain
my small gifts of shllIin9s and half crowns.
Berlin news rel orts that at the meeting
Of TIE Reichstag on Wednesday a member
said that when the German Slin.'datw IItis"
sank wide bulletin 31st july it would
have been better hid she sailors offered up
prayers to the Almighty than have cheered
the Kaiser. Admiral Holman, answering
said that the sailors were thinking Of the
Kaiser and had their God before their eyes
and thoughts (cynlrrI cheers.
Herr Ldeber, Member of the Clerical par
ty protested, and stated that his. opinion was
that Germans, especially Catholics, deplored
such an idea.
A tele gran ON Paris announces the ar
rival Of Sir Edmund Monsoon, he newly
apnointed Ambassador vice Lord Dufferin,
The Manchester Guardian reports that
the Prime Minister and the Secretary Of
State for Foreign aft IirS will act strongly
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