HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11501, 6 February 1903, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By EJecrtric Telegraph—Copyright. A GOVERNORSHIP DECLINED. (Received February sth, 9.12 a.m.) LONDON, February 4. Lord Methueii lias declined the offer of the Governorship of Malta.

UNION S.S. COMPANY'S LATEST PURCHASE. The Union Steam Ship Company has purchased the steamer t-carisbrick, and renamed it the Katipo. PORTS RE-OPENED FOR ARGENTINE BTOCK. The ports of the United Kingdom have been re-opened to stock from the Argentine and Uruguay. IRISH MEMBERS RELEASED FROM PRISON. Mr W. Redmondi and' Mr John Roche, the Irish members who received sentences in connection witih uulawful assemblies, have been released. INFLUENZA IN SWITZERLAND. BERNE, February 4. Eighteen thousand case* uf influenza are reported at Basle. REVISING RUSSIAN CUSTOMS TARIFFS. ST. PETERSBURG, February 4. The Minister of Finance has been instructed to rearrange the customs duties for the Far Eajs);. THE STOLEN CYPHER DESPATCHES. It is only supposed thait Russia purchased the British cypher despatches stolen aX Pera. [According to a cabfe message in yesterday's paper, the "Neve Free l s resse" etaied that a telegrapeust at Pera purloined and sold the British Government cypher despatches to Russia, who has the key to the cypher.]

SUICIDE OF A ROUMANIAN POLITICIAN. BUCHAREST, February 4. M. Macaresco, formerly Roumanian

Minister of Finance, and latterly ViceDirector of the Bank of Agriculture, when about to be arrested in connection with ,tbe Parisians fruudw of four per cent, stocks, committed suicide by jumping under a train.

A DISGRACED FRENCH GENERAL. PARIS, February 4.

General Founder, who commands the French Army Corps at Clermont and Faraud, indirectly manifested sentiments against t/he Government. He was censured and reduced to the command of an infantry division, and placed on half the pay of the latter rank.

THE NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB. (Received February sth, 10.55 p.m.) LONDON, February 5. Lord Carrington was unanimously elected to the Presidency of the National Liberal Club, which position has been vacant since Mr Gladstone's death.