, 1909-03-17

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spect Panama.
London, March 15th-TAe second cruiser
SQUADRON is to be constituted upon q per-
manent basis, to show the flag in distant
parts of the world, like its recent visits to
South Africa and South America.
Every hospital and every nurse are over
worked by the great number OF people suffer
ing from influenza; over seventy members of
the House of Commons are inyalide ed, and
if is es mated that one eighth Of the popu-
lation Of London is iudisp3sed. Queen
Alexandra and Princess Victoria are stlII
unable to enIe,taiu the Dowager Empress
Of Russia, and all Jhree ase keeping their
apartments.
The leading members Of Oxfosd Uuiyer-
sity have petiioned the Held madaI Coun-
ell to abolish the leetureship endowed by an
Indian alumuus, and return the funds, be-
cause the founder, Krsh Mnyarna, is u leader
Of sediion III Iudia. This graduate Of
BaIliol |iustities the native murders of women
and officials, and is assisted by the students
and habitues Of India House, Highgate, from
whence inceudlury pamphlets are despatch
ed and circulated IN India,
Mr.. Gladstone, replying to m enquiry said
he was unable to announce what steps
would be taken against the incendilrism.
Mr.. Balfour, in a speech, has declared that
tariff reform will be the first plank in the
Unionist platform, and the first matter to
which any Unionist Government must adj
dress itself. It is rem .rked that Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain is unable to say more, neyerthe-
less powerful diss entients like Lord Ave
buy, Nh. Bright and Sir Felix ScAuster au-
thorlze antagoni5tic interviews.
Short Brothers are building SIX aeroplanes
of the VIZ ght model in the Isle of Sheppey,
and The first completed is to be offered to
the War Department for fourteen hundred
pounds, with a guarantee it will ty twenty
minutes.
Paris was isolated for four hours yester-
day by another post Office demonstration.
forty employees have been suspended
preliminary to dismissal, and eight, in
Guiding the President Of the Employees
Association, arrested. The Government re-
CARDS the movement rs revolutionary,
and military operators have been order
ed to prepare themselves to substitute those
dismissed There are apprehonsions that
the strike will spread to the provinces, in
Guiding the telegraph, telephone, and post
office services. The real grievance IS the
Governments plan to substitute promotion
bv merit for promotion by seniority. The
general French la5eur situation is disquiet-
ing, and the unions are tyr&nnical, 4 total
Interruption If the foreign service followed
the telegtQph.st5' demonsotion, Int the
tstrikers surrendered to Governments
hreat Of instant and complete dismissal.
NJ. Cailluux and NJ. Picard haze compoa-
ed their differences, and the latter viii sub
nit to the Chamber of Deputies estimates
for equipment, amounting to l,203,0a0
pounds above tho reguiar credit, a d when
voted, NJ. Caillaux viii add q like sum to
current credit, the same to be done III eoch
of the next six years, The cabinet has APP
proved the total, exceeding seven millions
sterling, but none for new ships.
President FalliGres has created q commits
sion to investigate the corruption alleged by
Deputy Bros8e, and NJ. Picard will report a
plan for prevention Of its repetition.
The Petit Parisien says that eX President
C%ostro's wife viii sail alone, her errand being
to save Castro's secreted property,
Madame $ einheil has been committed for
the murder of her husband,
A Copenhagen despatch states that over
half the vo es cast in the elections were wo-
mems; of forty two municipal councillors
elected seven are women, and seven
per cent Of the elected candidates IN the
provinces are women, Woman suffrage IS