, 1908-06-10

The British and Russian %squadrons will
anchor in the roadst~ad and will not enter
The harbour. Torpedo boats will picket all
moving vessels compelling them to keep q
fred distance from the Royal yachts, and
even rowboats will move under observation.
This causes unavailiug grumbling by the
fishermen.
--latest advices from Reval state that a
British cruiser has been sighted preceding
King Edwards yacht, the sea has Quoted
down and slight rain is falling.
A decree has been g~azetted modifying
She constitution of Finland and ordaining
that the Finnish Secretary OF State shall
submit reports to the Russian Premier for
presentation to the Gear, if of general and
imperial interest, and in cases of disagree
ment. regarding the imperial quality OF such
state papers, the Finnish and Russian
representatives shall approach the Gear
together; thus the Cabinet Ministers are
interposed be the Gear and the Grand
Duchy. The Governments action approx
mates q coup d'etat.
Lisbon ad vices state that the commission
Investigating the late King Carlos's finances
have discovered that the Dowager Queen
received eight thousand pounds from the
state, which is embarrassing, because these
allowances were made under the admiplstra-
ton OF the present Minister of Finance. The
Queen ~justi6es the payment because her
allowances of 480 pounds were Inadequate.
The Lisbon police have arrested the ring
leaders in a plot to use bombs against the
Royal Family at a religious feast on the
eighteenth, and have seized bombs and
correspondence duplicating the late Kings
a~saasins with the anarchists of Barcelona
and Madrid.
Advices from Teberan report that the
Shah has remitted twenty thousand pounds
sterling for an indemnity, in accordance with
the Russian %ultimatum expiring tomorrow.
The Turks, availing themselves of the inter
nal disorders, are invading Persia. The Shah
has attempted a coup d'etat by ordering the
arrest of fourteen influential agitators.
New York, June 9th-The Haitian Gene
raj Firminhas arrived here from st. Thomas.
The Honduran Minister at Washington
has advised Honduras against the extradi-
ton Of Mr.. Bailey, and that the matter should
be Irrigated in the Honduras courts.
It is announced that in August Mr. COLLAR,
Chief Justice of Bermuda, will marry, either
in London or Paris. a daughter of James
Norris Of Saint Louis, Missouri.
The provincial elections in Ontario and
Quebec have sustained the present admins
t~rations.
St: Lucia, 9th-H. NJ. S. scylla arrived
1915 a. N.
New York, June 9th
Flo II, Blended Clears per barrel 5.1k- $50
Meal, Kindred, per barrel 3.8O-385
New Seasons Pork
Heavy Mess Pork, $141--154
s,osr yCrystals per b., ~
sugar Mnscovado SY0test 81
Nolasses Eng. Islds. per gal. no quotation.
Liverpool Cotton middlinS Upland. 6 ]
Exchange, New York Il London, 6Odaya
sight 1851
Exchange NewYork and London sight S4.s7
London. June 9th
Dem. Crystals 16s Cd los Cd.
su Muscovudo, floating terms, in
bond, lis. 6d-l1s. Cd
German beet 88.f. O. b lis. Sd.
Java Sugar 5000 Gibraltar or Channsl lcV
orders, floating TINS. lbs
Demerara Rum. Is Sd.--1s. Tao.
Cocoon, Trinidad, good, middlipg R~ed.nominal
pr cwt 66s.
Cotton, medium Fine S. Lat Liverpool nominal
Is. ID.
Bank Of England Rate of discount q.
t3onsols 8S
Three per ceot. Rentes i'll Paris 96.4 5