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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1136, 8 December 1893, Page 36

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Constantinople, November 30. The Sultan has asked the Russian Admiral, M. Avellan, not to visit Constantinople, the pretext being that there is danger from cholera. .. Paris, November 28. The President is blamed for causing the present political crisis, because he unduly limited the right of M. Dupuy to get rid of his Radical colleagues. Up to the present there is no solution of the crisis. Paris, November 30. M. Spuller is engaged in forming a new French Cabinet. Paris, December 1. M. Spuller having failed to form a Cabinet, M. Cusimir-Perier, yielding to the President’s wishes, undertook the task. He will be Premier, with the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, the other Ministers being : —M. Raynal, Department of the Interior; M. Burdeau, Finance; M. Spuller, Education ; and M. Loubet, Public Works. The Post Office at Missel-sur-Seine has been robbed of 300,000 francs. Paris, December, 2. Two Germans have been arrested in Bourges, capital of the department of Cher, on suspicion of sending the infernal machines to the Emperor of Germany and German Chancellor. Paris, December 3. The new Ministry formed by M. Casimir-Perier includes M. Dubost, Minister for Justice; M. Mercier, Minister for War; M. Lefevre, Minister for Marine; M. Jounart, Minister for Public Works; and M. Marte, Minister for Commerce.

The President and M. Casimir-Perier wept during the interview with M. Spuller over the difficulties of the situation. Paris, December 4. M. Casor, is Secretary for the Col jmes in the new French Ministry. Paris, December 4.

M. Etienne, who was formerly a Cabinet Minister, contends that the continued enlargement of the French army compelled the Czar to take notice of the country and to see that he could not afford to neglect an alliance longer. Paris, December 5. The policy of M. Casimir-Perier’s Ministry is similar to that of the Dupuy Cabinet. The programme of the new Government has been well received. Rome, November 29. Signor Guiseppe Zanardelli, who held the portfolio of Worship and Justice in Signor Crispi’s 1890 Ministry, has undertaken the formation of a new Cabinet. Berlin, November 29. The Prussian Government has decided to take strong repressive measures against Socialism. Berlin, December 2. The Reichstag, by a majority of 40, has decided in favour of the Centre Party’s Bill repealing the exceptional laws for the Jesuits. Berlin, December 3. In the Reichstag, Herr Lieber, the Catholic leader, said that if the Pope were friendly to the Ru :so-French alliance it would not deter the German Catholics from remaining loyal to the Kaiser. The Reichstag has raised duties, principally on Russian imports, by 50'per Cotit.

It is believed that the Bundesrath, or Federal Council, will not agree to the Bill repealing the laws against the Jesuits. [The Bundesrath, although mainly a confirming body, has the privilege of rejecting measures passed by the Reichstag. It’ has also a limited initiatory power, which it occasionally exercises. Members of the Bundesrath have the right of appearing in the Reichstag, and of speaking on any" question in which the State they representis directly interested. Members of the one chamber, however, are not eligible for election to the other, although they may sit in their respective provincial diets.] Berlin, December 4. In the new tariff the duty on Russian flax is not touched. St. Petersburg, November 30.

The Russian Government ordered the olosing of a Roman Catholic church in Kovno, the capital' of the government of Kovno, in European Russia, on the Baltic. The Catholieg the interference, and occupied" clie church. Troops were summoned to expel them, and in doing so killed 20 people and wounded 100. The remainder fled, and were pursued by Cossacks. Many lost their lives in attempting to cross the river Niemen. St. Petersburg, December 4. Some Moscow monks have robbed a monastery of sacred vessels and valuables of the value of £150,000. . Vienna, December 1. The Austrian Government is alarmed at the Russian negotiations for a naval dep6t on the Montenegro coast. Vienna, December 3. The influenza epidemic is raging through-

out the country. The Reichsrath has been closed in consequence of it. \ Sofia, December 2.

Wanhoff, a former Bulgarian officer, has been arrested on a charge of being concerned in the plot to murder Prince Ferdinand. Accused, who was one of the ringleaders, has confessed his guilt. Belgrade; November 29.

Ex-King Milan, who is bankrupt, is advising King Alexander -to suspend the Constitution to secure funds