, 1910-01-12

here to New York per S. S. SaramAca thence
to England by the Teutonic on or about the
twentieth inst.
London, Jan. 12th-The r. M. S. Arno,
a Salvage steamer from Jamaica, and q camel
tug from Colon have gone to the Trent's
assistance. Her passengers are safe.
England has not been advised officially
shat Venezuela has removed the obnoxious
restrictions to trade between Trinidad and
Oiudad Bolivar, but if DR.. PAals intimt-
lions are verified, the principal difficulty
will be removed. Inasmuch as England
shas advised certain monopolies against
Venezuelan investments, the Govern
meut considers the promoters SHOULD
reach a private a. adjustment of their differ
ences and il treated unfairly then the gov
ernment would lend its support, but of e
purely pacific character. England has made
no agreement to act in concert with France
A0d Holland.
A Paris telegram says DIR. Paul will in
form the French government chat ex-Presi-
lent Castro's retirement is permanent and
there is no danger Of his cancelling the
pending negotiations.
Tho death 10 announced o. Lsdy William
l8eFesSord.
The first international aerOnautic congress
has discussed laws for the regulation of
Sallooniug. The British protest against the
Berlin clubs award of the internatiOnal cup
Gp @ Swiss upon the ground that he allowed
che Helvetia to be towed ashore, violating the
conditions OF the contest, was not adopted.
Mr.. Haldane, addressing % meeting of en-
pl0yeos ON behalf of the territorial army,
said that international affairs we're IN such
8 condition that only a spark WINS needed to
make q great war possible. Nations nowadays
resemble armed camps rather than peoples
contemplating peace, and Britnin's bost secU-
Fity WAS preparedness for COntlngencies;even
more likely than the possibility of invasion
was. che danger that neglect might promote
Il panic through her markets.
Advioes from Rome state that Mr.. Alfred
Ogston, the British Vice Consul ut MessiDnp
escaped. but his wife was killed her body
has been found. A man has been rescued
after being without food or drink for four.
teen days, he was caught in such "a manner
chat he beheld the lingering deaths Of his
wife and four children. On Saturday night
q severe shock of earthquake during q rain
storm leyeiled the tents, the sole shelter near
Giarre, and % fissure opened six hundred
and fifty feet long and sixty Eve feet deep,
which has been nared the mouth Of He'll
At Sion in Switzerland, q church collapsed,
burying tho congregation, forty six persons
being killed and sixty injured. A panic fol-
lowed from those who escaped spreading
the alarm that an earthquake had occurred,
but the collapse of the church was caused
by the yielding Of ancient pillars in the
crypt.
Shoe 3 Of earthquake occurred yesterday
at Vancouver. Beiinghnln. Victoria an Seattle.
At Bethuno, Pas de Calais, thirty thousand
persons Witnessed the guillotining of four
murdere,s, Polet brothers, Canut and Ferrs.
There were cries Of rage at their defiant de-
meanour and of Joy as the knife fell. Sol
drers scattered the crowd at the end of the
repu'sive spectacle, tho elimination of %
Il ghtlong carousal in anticipation of the
execution, which occupied nine minutes.
There Is no sign of the ful6lment of the
anticipation of the opponents of capital pun
ishment of Il revolution against the repeti-
tion Of such. but there are ONE signs of
support for q law making ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
A st Petersburg telegram states that
General Stossel, Admiral N~ebogstoff, and
others have petitioned for pardon.
New York, Jan. 12th-A Toxic despatch
states that the Japanese newspapers COM
ment adversely upon the Law Vending in the
Californian Legislature ex1. ding Japanese
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