Asuaytt is on the Gold Coast, and the troubles there h with the war in South Africa. dis in the he Mitel or Musée de Cliny collection of old "fur vestry, faience, enamels, lite and omi Venetian glass, curios of all sorts and periods, gether more than 11,000 0 south-east of probably with foundation that the Boers were stirring up and het nuler the protection of the Transvaal, the paramount chief who died the other day The adm 1 Comm phe remains of the Ror des by th nes ate imposing, the chief I being ed police, while the re than sixty feet long, about sixty feet about 18,000 men. There hand neatly forty feet wid ome Consul, who rejoices in the Roman antigaities are kept in thi hall. name of Smuts.
Hotel de Cluny issue pecially interesting to Bute Tue Penang Gazelle says idor, sister of Henry VIL. the y cident is reported from cellars at. the tow widow of Louis the Twelfth, took ap he idence here, and the chamber she ocenis one of the principal enfrepits for champied still goes by the na jo Reine pane wines, collapsed, resulting in the destruction of five hundred casks and a Blanche," the mourning worn by French queens bei ays white. James the million and a-half bottles of champagne, Fifth of Scotland " lodged in the Tue correspondent of a contemporary Hotel de Cluny, when he ited Paris in writes order to marry Magdalen, daughter to Lhave the following story from a wound-Francis the First of France. ed Tommy At the Battle of Colenso, four quondam, London bus horses attached to a heary ight down the Rue Racine, crus still, and refused to budge. By well-chosen gun, utterly exhausted, came to a stand-vu the words, an upright Scot was trying to urge them on, He tried the whip: he tried kindness—not a Iudge.
Then up came Tonuny from Shoreditch.
"Leave "em to me, mate," said Tommy. from Shorediteh, The upright Seat handed him the whip, but Tommy replied he didn't want. it, Then he proceeded to do what the Scot had given up as an utter impossi Now then Mum, Bank, Bank, Liverpool Street, Bank. Get yer bag of sausages, get buy: higher hup, hisher hup.
And the London nags bravely responded. It was too late though; they soon fell shot, never to rise again and respond to the come shout of Bank '—they had run thei last trip sin their dying moments they consoled themselves with the thought that. they wouldn't be hacked about by the cats-meat man. to the Hanna-Payne Shipping ly Bill, the New York Muritime Register says' in its issue of the 28th of February The last four d cates of the Subsidy bill, that it cannot the House, even if it should pass the Senate. in its present form. A conference of the Republican members of both committees having the bill in charge, thereupon decided to yield in some minor details to their Republican colleagues opposed to the measure and have drafted a new bill, which has be reduced in the House. The modilicatior ein brief classi LI receive the subsidy.
L.—A provision that only vessels while
—That, the full bounty shall only be paid for 10 years and that the following 10 years the bounty is to be reduced 5 per cent from year to.—That vessels built prior to January, 1900, are-only entitled to a subsidy for 10 years.
4.—Thut vessels carrying fluids (in other words the tank vsseels of the Standard Oil Ca.,) are exempted from the benefits aceruing' under the bill 5.—That the Navy Department shall approve all plus for the construction of new vessels order to entitle them to the bounty—That vessels to participate in the be-befits of the bill must exrry on outgoing passages a cargo large enough to fill at least 50 per cent of the gross tonnage exclusive of spave set aside for passengers and tails, 7.—Slight changes in reference to ton-naze and speed, We how fail to sce among the modifications, paragraph provi inn more liberal for the i adiate and ure reennit foreign built, vessels and reserving th the tin ile int ult be of far all the other contempt! simply for the reason th ove it tv he a physical impos sibility on the part of American shipbuild-provide the desirable amount of ad-ge within a reasonable time. Still we advise all who have the rel tion of American shipping really at heart to vote for the bill, no matter what its perfections may be.
Tar New York Mu agister, in issue of th 1s for supporting the Shi Subsidy Bill as modified 1.—The American Merchant Marine is in a deplorable condition.
2.—A revival would be of incalculable benefit to American commerce and prosperity in general,—History teaches that from time immemorial the foreign commerce of nations has been built up either by an entirely free interchange of goods between the different countries or by protection and bounties of some kind.
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