The record-union., 1896-10-25
Still Hinges Upon the Proposals of Lord
Salisbury
That the Clauses of the Treaty of
Paris Giving the Porte the Power
to Refuse the Passage of Warships
Through the DardaneIles be Re-
SCinded.

which is in progress among the Powers
in regard to Turkey still hinges upon
the proposals made by Lord Salisbury
that the clauses of the treaty of Paris
giving to the Porte the power to refuse
or permit the passage of warships
through the Dardanelles be rescinded;
that the administration of the affairs of
Turkish provinces be placed under the
supervision of the Powers and that the
conference of the European Powers
shall not include Egypt in the matters
which it may take under consideration.
The British Foreign Office officials are
in expectation that Lord Salisbury will
be successful in gaining the points en-
bodied in his demands through the as
sistance and support of Russia, which
Power has obtained the reluctant con-
sent Of France to these proposals. A
conference will be summoned by Rus
sia to meet at ST. Petersburg.
Queen Victoria is now busily en-
gagged in drawing up the programme for
the fetes attendant upon the celebration
next June of the sixtieth anniversary
OF her accession to the throne. The
celebration will be conducted on a
grander scale even than was the
Queens jubilee in 1887. Beside the pres
ence Of the reigning sovereigns in any
way related to the Queen her majesty
desires that representatives shall attend
from all of the various colonies of the
British empire. The state pageants will
last a month.
A person prominent in political cir
cles, who recently sold his London
house with the intention of taking
larger one for the seasons functions.
stated to representative of the United
Associated Presses in the course of a
conversation that he very much re-
GREETED having disposed of his house, as
the rentals of the house he had rented
had risen 20 per cent. on account of the
rush of the social class to secure favor
able quarters before the season opens.
1t Is expe in well-informed circles
that the Right Rev. Randol Creighton.
Blshop OF Peterboro, will be chosen as
the successor of the late Most Rev. Ed
ward White Benson, ID. d., as Arch
bishop of Canterbury and Primate of all
England.
The Spanish Government, through it's
Minister Of Finance Senor j. Navarro
Reveter, recently invited tenders from
London silver brokers for $500. 900
worth of bar silver. The brokers ap-
piled TO refused to furnish the silver on
credit or even to make a tender of the
bullion on credit basis, but the meta1
was undoubtedly sent to Spain from
London at the prevailing silver market
rates, and will make its appearance in
the debased silver currency of Spain.
assisting the Bank of Spain to foist
upon the public it's debased paper cur
rency. Senior Canovas del Castillo.
Prime Minister of Spain, sent a commu4
nicaticn to the Madrid Impartial" the
Government organ, yesterday, stating
that the Government had not aban-
doned its negotiations for the floating of
a loan.
Premier CanovaS adds that the Gov
ernment still hopes that the railway
companies will assist the Government
with loan of milliard of pesetas. IF
we should vainly exhaust these and the
foreign reserve, 1 rely upon the patriot
ism of the country TO provide finally the
means to crush the rebellion in Cuba
and the Philippine Islands"
The analysis of the bull of Pope Leo
XIII. on the question of the validity of
the Anglican orders which the late
OI was engaged
upon at the time of his death follows
the text of the bull step by step. and
shows that, according to the opinion of
English churchmen, the objections put
forward by the Pope are historically
worthless.
The leading weekly papers of London
are devoting column after column OF
space to articles speculating on the re-
suit of the coming Presidential election
in the United States. The "Specta-
tor" in a leading article under the cap
ticn IF Bryan is Elected" refuses to
admit that the victory of Mckinley is a.
foregone conclusion. The vehemence OF
the Republican managers in affirming
that McKinleys triumph is assured. the
Spectator" says, rather suggests a res
dubie est
The rise in wheat in America will do
no harm to Bryan's chances if the peo-
pie are convinced that it was brought
about by the machination Of the British
and Eastern gold bugs.