BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2264, 12 May 1891, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

France has reduced the import duty on wheat to 2f per 100 kilos. The reduction to operate for one year. Prince Bismarck does not intend to take bis seat in tbe Reichstag till autumn. The Prinoe is seriously ill. During a riot in Home, fomented by anarchists, several anarchists were wounded. The Chilian insurgents demand that the President shall resign, and disband tbe army and navy. It is reported that an extra 10a per head will be allowed instead of fees under tbe free education proposals of the Government. Captain Verney pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. The British squadron at Bermuda has been ordered to proceed to Newfoundland. Tne cruiser Mildura, one of the Australian squadron, broke down on a 10 days' cruise. The United States Government has seized a Chilian rebel steamer which was at San Diego, in Lower California. The death iB announced of Mr Thomas Hare, the inventor of the system of parliamentary aepresentation known Hnder his name. President Balmaceda's side are inviting mediation with a view to ending the insurrection. An encyclical letter published by the Pope denounces socialism and reprimands capitalists for the abuse of their power. Mr W. H. Smith's acceptance of the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports compels him to seek re-election by the Strand, his constituency. Lord Chancellor Halsbury is applying for £100,000 to enable the church and Salvation Army to extend their field of operations in the colonies. Influenza is spreading through London to an alarming extent. Strikes have now become almost general at Pournier, Roubaix, Lille, and Calais. Many foreign agitators are inciting tbo Belgian miners, and the number of outrages committed by those out on strike is increasing. The difficulty with Russia over the stoppage in the Dardanelles of vessels flying the llussian mercantile Hag has been satisfactorily arranged. Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, informed a deputation from the asiosiated chambers of commerce that four months' trial of the 2hi letter rate with the colonies showed that the number of letters bad increased 14 per cent., but the cost had increased 43 per cent. The Britißh have annexed Bastard's country, west Bechuanaland, thus preventing the Boers and Damaris trekking there. Fifty members of the House of Commons and all the table clerks except one are down with the iuflueozi. A heavy fall has taken place in Portuguese stock, owing to the failure to float a loan and the dearth of gold. By the authority of the Government, coinage in silver to the extent of half a million pounds is to be made, and the banks are to be allowed to exchange silver for gold and notes. A run has taken place on the bank in Lisbon, Detective O'Malley, who was indicted last month on a charge of being an agent of the Mafia (the Sicilian secret society), denies tbe existence of the society in New Orleans. Information has beoa received in New York that a revolution has broken out in San Salvador, a Central American republic. Mr Parnell declines his opponents' proposals for arbitration regarding the Paris funds. The Parnellite delegates met with an enthusiastic reception at Montreal. The horses were taken out of the carriage, which the partisans dragged iv triumph through the streets. Owiug to dissensions among the manager?, it is stated that the Chicago World's Fair is likely to be abandoned.