British and Foreign News.

Hastings Standard, Issue 325, 18 May 1897, Page 4

British and Foreign News.

[Evening Post.] Perhaps the most remarkable evidence of the change of seutiinent which is coming over France regarding England (says the Home News of the latest elate) is the tribute paid by the Tomps to Lord Salisbury when it say that " his mind is one of the most masculine, his understanding one of the broadest, his reason one of the clearest and most luminous of his country and his age."

The Porte is pressing enquiries on the Russian Ambassador regarding the presence of a large and increasing number of Russian troops on the frontier of Asiatic Turkey. The Tsar's Government has concentrated 200,000 men in South Russia.

Advices from Scutari, in Albania, report the outbreak of serious disturbances between the Mahomedans and Christians at that place. Dr Nansen, on 26th March, received from President Faure in insignia of Commander of the Legion of Honor. A Paris journal asserts that the Minister of Marine intends to ask the Chamber for a credit of £32,000,000 for the construction of 45 large warships and 175 torpedo-boats. The German Reichstag, on 26th March, adopted by 179 to 49 a resolution of the Radical People's Party for the payment of members of the House. Russia is increasing the number of her troops at Askabad and at Merv, in Transcaucasia.

The Newfoundland sealing catch is now reported to be very poor. Eleven steamers have returned empty out of sixteen fishing on the Eastern coast. The foreign fish markets continue depressed, and the serious situation of the colony is becoming intensified. Numerous petitions are being addressed to the Government urging the revival of the Ba.it Act, as otherwise the summer fishing operations will be largely curtailed. The Canadian Government is about to expend 10,000,000d01, in enlarging the canal system between Lake Su perior and Montreal. A substantial reduction in wheat freights is expected to result from the improved means of communication, which will be completed about 1899. The hostile legislation of the United States is provoking among Parliamentarians' in Ottawa a strong feeling of indignation, the outcome of which is the decision of the Government to discriminate in favor of Great Britain and against the United States in the new Tariff Bill. It is hinted that the discrimination will amount to about 8 per cent.

Mr Herbert Gladstone authorises contradiction of the story that his father has become a cyclist. "tt is," he says, " a perfect hoax." Dr. Koch has published in Berlin the results of experiments, extending over five years, for the perfection of his remedy for the cure of consumption. It is claimed by the inventor that he has greatly increased the curative power of the lymph, and has removed the causes of the unfavorable re-action which has hitherto followed upon its use.

Mr Morris K. Jesup, President of the American Museum of Natural History, is fitting out an elaborate arthropological expedition to undertake a seven years' tour for the study of pre-historic man in all parts of the world, at a cost estimated at over 60,000. It will (says Nature) be the most elaborate and best equipped expedition ever sent out in the interests of arthropology. Mr Jesup has already done much for scientific research.

Mr Tarte, a member of the Canadian Ministry, delivered a speech in the Dominion House of Commons, on 30th March, in which he vigorously denounced the Quebec Bishops for their interference in federal politics. The Government had not, as was alleged, appealed to the Pope to interfere, but 45 Liberal Senators and members of the House of Commons had sent an address to His Holiness urging him to uphold the principle of restraining the clergy from interference with electoral freedom.