, 1898-12-10

IOE0 GItI6dtCO III IA ~ sis 'l~ TWILL - NV
mutations i'm t" a e" Of I1GG .Ej;:yh "s', %@' COLI 's ss
scheme, stating II It SUCH III considered. pro-
vocation mi2htkconver E'gland's present
forbeAing poll into' measures a. which
France was presumably .not aiming.
The "TineS,' in MI editorialBn the speech,
: EXPRESSES npproS"l, but is almost alone
in doing SO. The DAILY Telegraph edi,ori-
ally approves thy sentiment, but cond.mns it's
The Daily News" also in an editorial
expresses che opinion that it will aggrnyato
the situation unless matters are. worse than
they are supposed 10 be.
Other Pa is new regarding the Peace
Commission Il ports that after ~ tedious anil
ingenious objection to the United States
proposals, Mr.. Day said that it WAS proper
that any treaty Of peace should include
whatever he victor desired, and that he
United States definitely rejected the request
to concede preference to Spanish Commerce
in the West Indies.
4 treaty covering all the protocol topics
is expected to be completed speedily, but
other topics outside of the protocol mny
possibly be reserved for u separate treaty.
Advices from Berlin report that The
Relics az has been opened by the Kaiser and,
in a speech, he said that peace WINS his
principal policy and lauled the Cars
magnanimous project.
1t is announced that tho Elrl Of Stafford
has married The widow Of Mr.. Samuel Col
gate # New York.
The London .'Dnily Chronicle, I'M
ing on President McKinley's surprising Ian
gunge re The Nicaragua Canal, which utterly
ignores British treaty rights, says that the
matter will assume ere long an acute form.
Madrid GAADatnh ounnIucae flint ne soon
as the pence treaty is signed the Govern
ment will appoint Consuls for Cuba and
Porto Rico.
A Paris Telegram reports that Col. Picqualt
has presented a demand to the Court IF
Cnssation to the effect, that being prosecuted
for the same offence ly Two different juriS-
dictions one of them should be stepped. The
court ia examining the domaud and after
deciding will then probably hear General
Gionse.
London, December 8th-Sugar in stock on
:he 3rd inst. was 10000 toms. Last year
70, 1000 tons.
NV York, December 9th-The London
Times in an diroriaScOmmentingo on Secretary
Cages report advising that@he United States
Mercantile Marine should be encouraged by
treating it as coastwiso thereby rxcIudingthe
ships Of other nations from the trade be-
tween The United States, Hawaii and Porto
Isico protests against such action and ex-
presses the opinion that England will be
disappointed at this result Of the d~ownfal.l
Of Spain in regions regarding whose desti-
MES England might have claimed a voice.
Other newspapers discussing the matter
express even stronger opinions.
Paris news reports that the "Liberte'
states that NJ. DelcaSse will charge Nj. Cam
hon the French Minister to Great Britain
to ask LORD Salisbury whether is by his
order that sir Edmund Mousm directs
Frances Foreign policy.
The journal "Des Debats' in an editorial
and presumably expressing the views of N.
DeIcasse says that whenever England feels
a p%in-prick she relorl> with AcIub it 98o b.
Titles tile French schools scheme as unofi-
cial and unimportant and in accordance with
the open door policy.
Other papers are more bitter IN their cx-
pressions and say that Sir E lmund Monsor
at the end of his career has blundered like
q beginner in the diplomatic service and
demand his recall. They also taunt Eng
land with receiving from tie United St"les
regarding The Phi irpines a trrncherous
back hander identical with that of France
from England regarding Egypt.
A telegram from Shanghai reports that
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