Widnes Examiner. — 1883-03-17 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.  The cost of cremating 7.000 bodies per annum at Bombay is only £3,000, less than 10s. each.  Two Bengalee ladies have successfully passed the B.A. degree examination at the Calcutta University. Madame Christine Nilsson is singing in Canada. She will be the Marquis of Lorne's guest at Qttawa. The strength of the British army of occupation in Egypt will shortly be reduced to 0,000 men. Two line regiments, a battery, and a company of engineers have received orders to return.  An OttGiVit telegram sties that Mr. W. E. Falter, M.P., will, in October next, succeed the Marquis of Lorne as Governor-General of Canada.  Several persons have been killed by the falling of the roof of one of the wings of the Payret Theatre at Havana during a heavy fall of rain..  Commercial advice' s just received at Liverpool report that a very extensive fire is raging at Iquique, the great nitre port on the coast of South America. There is reason to believe that the Porte will shortly pronounce on the question of the passage through the Dardan alles of yachts flying the British flag. A registered letter carrier was murdered at Berlin on Tuesday, and a sum of about five thousand marks which he had in his possession was stolen. His body was found on Wednesday, but at present there is no clue to the assassin. It appears from information received in Athens that the Porte insists that the exclusive right to carry on the coasting trade in the Sea of Marmora belongs to vessels flying the Ottoman flag. Our Foreige Office has, of coarse, repudiated this pretension.  It is stated that to providesfor the concentration of 50,000 troops at Moscow during the coronation, the Ministry of War will allow a credit of 2,500,000 roubles; and for the extra accommodation for staff officers and military representatives from Russia's Asiatic dominions another 100,000.roubles. A member of the Auscrian Reichsrath is to be prosecuted for having taken part in a students' demonstration in favour of the incorporation of the German subjects of Austria in the Germanic Empire. The penalty for "disturbing 'public order" is severe.  • The Vienna Town Council on Tuesday resolved to hold an international exhibition there next year of articles appertaining to city improvements, and have voted a sum of 100,000 florins for that purpose. The municipalities of all the towns of Europe, Americ.i, and Australia will be invited to take part in the exhibition,  The result of the inquiry into the charges made against Signor Amid, an interpreter of the British Vice-Consul at Castblanca, who recently superintended the public flogging of a number of girls at that place, has resulted in the facts as stated being established. Amid l has been dismissed from the office of interpreter to the Vice-Consulate, by order of he British Minister, Sir John Hat. .  .Maitre Lachaud, the famous advocate, who was retained to defend Prince Napoleon, has published a pamphlet in which the origin of the manifesto is explained, and an account given of the treatment to which the Prince was subjected in prison. The pamphlet, says a Paris correspondent, is written throughout in a tone of contemptuous hostility to the Government.  SUICIDE OF A RUSSIAN MilasTsu.—Details are published at St. Petersburg concerning the suicide of M. Makoff, exMinister of the Interior. They state that on the evening of the 11th inst. the deceased received a visit, and when afterwards left alone he wrote some letters before committing the act of self-destruction. On the room of the deceased being entered, a Bible was found on his writing table. The suicide was apparently premeditated,every arrangement having been made and all private affairs put in order beforehand. Death appears to have been instantaneous, the bullet remaining lodged in the skull. M. Makoff leaves a widow, two daughters. and a son. •  •