BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1899-04-04
CABLE NEWS

Mr.. DelcasSe. Mini,ter of foreign af-
fairs of the French Republic, has feted
with splendid banquet the Spanish am
bassador in Paris.
The French minister in toasting
hoped that the ties uniting the two La
tin countries. ma be drawn to day Clo-
ser than heretofore, since it concern.
them SO to do
The Globe says her Britanic Males
tvs Plenipote' tiary in the Celestial En-
pre-. has forced Teung Li-Tamen to pu-
biSh an edict decreeing that the port Of
San-munc desired by Italy is open or
universal commerce.
lie Rappel says, that judging from
informatinns gathered from physicians
attending cx captain DceyfI IS he " II die
soma time about tn. middle Of the cur
rent year without the indictment in the
celebrated and gloomy lawsuit brou ,ht
against his conduct be i'm partially ad-
judged.
Between Quiquito ani near to Mo-
lel los the Anne 1cans at the Phi ipplne
troops consisting of 1900 from til. lat
ter fifty nine prisoners. were taken and
many de .ths were announced in this en-
gagements.
The losses Of the Union forces we're
insignificant
Agents of the Const bLlary force Of
Lerida have possessed themselves of do
cuments dispat he'd by the Duke Of Ma
drid to the Marques de Oerralbo. con
flaming important instructions fot the
traditionalistic committee, which militia
tes in Spl
| Pursuant to the text of the docu
ments seized, the, ensuing month was
signalizct oy he Pretender As the most
| fit to make move against the present
Spanish sovereignty.
Ia the French capital few prison.
ers. accused of spies have been n ade.
The number Of the detained exceed
fourteen.
&C eat sensation has been caused in
Paris by an article published in one Of
;he popula, papers of the great capital,
in which article it is asserted that all the
presidents of the republic VIII be detes
ted and that none of them will be able
TO extend ample AMI wise reformatory
action, whilst there are reactionary poll
ticians, Ike Casagnac and the Marques
de Rochefor who are r.oisy debaters and
oppose to everything
The British ambass sdor in China
Mr.. Clau lie Mac D onald has addressed
Note to the Empress Regent of China
menacng her, in the event of repeti
ton in Pckin of demonstrations hostile
to British subjects, with Bitaiu's intru
sion.
dispatches from Spain report that
the Carlis,s are making important pro-
paganda, and that it is generally belle
we'd in political Iberian circles that the
affiliated to the pretender, VII not be
long in taking the field.
TIE I'm partial says that many &c
nerals are affiliated to the cause which
the Duke of Madrid defends and commu-
ne with the Minister of War, General
Pc aviela. urging him to issue procla
nation, couched in the most severe
terms, prohibiting absolutely the soldiery
from repairing to meetings OF political
character.
Pursuant to the same reports. the
battalions will be presented to Dona
Berta dc Rohan, consort cf the Preten
der.
Referring to Don Jaime, son of the
Duke of Madrid, it is affirmed thAt he is
instruct:ng few batallions, and as he is
supposed to have acquired great know
ledge during his stay in the Russian ar
my, it is believed that said battalions
Will profit from his atlainments.
e Correo Espanol, a traJitianalis-
tic paper which Mr.. Mclla directs says
that the pretender has signed a docu
ment for a IAN of thirty million pese
tas in Germany and au other for loan
of fifteen million pesetas in England.
In the Spanish Ministry it is known
from reports from the Spanish Consul in
Burdeaux that the Carlists have formed
tour battalions which are already armed
and equipped, out of the two thousand
soldiers who, during the time of the his
pano american war crossed the frontiers,
taking refuge in to French territory.
kilograms from Europe report that
in and ou the continent it is believed that
the Emperor's proposal regarding the
withdrawal of foreign officials from the
Samoan Islands, will be thwarted.
They add, moreover. that Great
itain aud the United States of Ameri-
ca will not yield to suit the Emperor's
, nor anybodys else convenience in re-