HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11534, 17 March 1903, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. CHINA'S VAST POPULATION. (Received March 16th', 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. From a census taken by the- Board of Revenue in China, the population is estimated at four hundred and twenty-six millions. LYNCH'S SUCCESSOR. Mr C. Devlin, a prominent member or the* United Irish League, lias been elected to represent Gal way City in the House of Commons, in succession to Colonel Lynch, who is at present undergoing penal servitude for treason. AMERICAN TREATY WITH CUBA. NEW YORK, (March 15. The American Senate's amendment to the Cuban treaty, owing to its requiring tlie House of Representatives' approval, is regarded as practically defeating, the treaty. President Roosevelt is considering the re-submksion of the treaty at an extra session of Congress. • MR MORGAN'S ART TREASURES. Mr Pierpont Morgan ie agitating for a modification of the tax on art, alleging that the duty on hie collection aggregates cix hundred thousand sterling. AMERICAN EMIGRATION TO CANADA. Americana are making a strong appeal to their eonntrymen to etop the rush of emigrants to Canada. They urge them to "keep out of the clutches of the King." AN AWARD FOR BRAVERY. (Received March 16th, 10.2 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. Captain Herbert French, of the medical staff, a son of General Sir 31. A. French, has been awarded the Albert medal for jumping overboard from the eteamer Wakool and saving a fireman oil the Malacca coast. KING'S ACCESSION DECLARATION. (Received March 17th, 12.57 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. Cardinal Vauglian, in a letter read in tho Catholic churches, asked for signatures to a petition praying for the abolition of ti»e King's accession declaration. Petitions for signature, placed at the door* of the churches, refer to the exceptional treatment of Catholics. BALKAN REFORMS. (Received March 17th. 12.30 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, March 16. The Porte is appointing Swedish and other foreign officers to re-organise the gendarmerie. [A previous cable message stated that Russia had protested against the exclusive employment of German officers to re-organ-ise the gendarmerie, and recommended that officers should be appointed from neutral States, in accordance with the advice of Sir Nicholas O'Conor, the British Ambassador in Constantinople.]