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" Rome. January 23. Pxince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is on a visit fco Rome. The Pope lias refused tlie request of the Prince, to sanction the baptism of his infant son Boris in the Orthodox Greek faith. ROME, January 31. The Opposition in the Italian Parliament demands that both Chambers be convened to authorise the cessation of the Abyssinian war, •which, it is declared, is being- conducted in defiance of the wish of Parliament to serve private interests. The news of the arrival of General Galliano's forces at General Baratieri's camp was received here with rejoicing, cheers beinggiven for the King and the army. Lisbon." January 30. An Anarchist aimed a stone at Don Carlos, King of Portugal, while ho was driving through the streets of the city in an open carriage. The missile struck the King, but did not injure him. ( The man was arrested. J Paris, January 30. I A French Court has paased a life sentence ! on the servant who murdered his master, the AbbiT- Segui, in London last year. Pakis, January 31. The Premier has announced the introduction of a Graduated Income Tax Bill. Above 50,000 francs (.£2000), the rate will be five per cent. The new impost is expected to yield six millions sterling. Paris, February 2. The French Budget shows a saving of forty million francs. The Premier, M. Bourgeois, has approved a tax on foreign workmen. Le Temp? denounces the income tax as an anarchical innovation. It contends that 26,000,000 people will go scot free, and the main burden of the impost will fall on half-a-million. An American miser having died suddenly in Paris, a search made after his death resulted in .£BO,OOO being found which had bolonged to him. News has been received that many of the rebel chiefs in Madagascar have been shot.

Madrid, February 2. Spain still refuses to grant the Cuban insurgents the rights of war. I