, 1912-09-18

proceeded to the parade ground, where, in
side a high bamboo fence, forty thousand
nobles and al eminent foreign dignitnries
were assembled under Pickering lights, the
Sh'hto Priests looked ghostly, and the air
was filled with the monotonous throb of
japanese music aud burial chants in the an
clept language of Nippon, while scores Of
watchtil es roared ruddily. When the bodv
was brought inside the second shrine, the
Emperor, Empress, and Empress Dowager mot
the coffin and kowtowed at the proper times,
and, advau,ing singly to the coffin, bent III
PRAYER.
The Emperor has issued a proclamation
freeing hundreds of prisoners.
st. Petersburg news announces the dis
solution of the Donna. The new elections
Will take place on BIRD inst, and tue house
Will reasscmble on October 2Sth.
Mr.. Bryce has arrived at San Francisco.
London, Sept. 14th-(SpeciaD Latest nd
vices from Toxic state that General Count
Nogi and his wife attended the late Mike
dos o~bsequies at the Palace and then retired
to the modest nome in the outskirts of the
city, where they robed themselves in ia
panese costumes, drank a farewell cup
before the Mikado's draped picture, anu
when the hrst gun announced tLe departure
ct he Imperial coFt@ge, the cap. OF Of Port
Arthur seized n short sword and cut hs
throat, his wife then stahbing herself IL the
stomach, both dying Immediately
San Juan, Sept. 14th-Fr:day, S m The
suspicious case at San Juan died yesterday.
At present there are five positive cases and
one under observation at quarantine station.
London, Sept. lGth-The precise terms of
a solemn league and covenant, binding al
classes to resistance to Home Rule Will be
determined when the Ulster Unionist Coun-
cl meets on the BIRD instant. The docu-
ment will be given out for signature on the
2Sth, and it is believed it will declare I'M
compromising hostility to any Dublin par
llament, and refuse 10 pay amy taxation de-
creed by such a Legislature. Special rcli-
gious services will be held in every part of
Ulster the day tile covenant is offered for
signature, and a movement Is on foot to
have all employers treat the day as a general
holiday. Half the army in Ireland and two
thirds Of the police will be drafted into Bel
fast and It's vicinity on Yesterday III order to
restrict the Orange rebellion to Il rising of
words only,
The annual report of the British prison
Commissioner shows an unprecedented di-
minution in the numbers of prisoners, the
total for the past twelve months being IT'S,
900, or ten thousand less than last year,
and the lowest per hundred thousand of the
population on record. Owing to the decrease
III the female criminal population, the female
wings OF Dorchester and ST. Adams prisons
have been closed.
The battleship "Audacious' has been sue
c~essful1y launched at Birkenhead.
Fourteen employees Of the Trade Union,
the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants,
having asked that their wages of thirty shll-
lings be raised to TIE Union rate of thirty
five shillings, the society treated their peti-
ton with contempt, and locked the men out.
The latter are now picketing Unity House
in order to prevent the Union from filing
their places with hlacklcga.
A despatch from CuXhayen states that the
battleship "Zahringen' rammed the torpedo
boat destroyer G. III off Heligoland, sink
ing her. with the loss of SIX lives.
The Eucharistic Congress at Vienna came
to a close on Saturday, the final ceremonies
being attended by twelve Cardinals, two
hundred Bishops, IS Archbishops, 1900
Clerics and thousands of other persons.
The Chinese Minister of Finance has re-
pudiated the tentative loan of ten million
pounds, and re-opened negotiations with the
representatives of the six Powers with every