It was with a feeling of relief that we received the news of a number of arrests in connection with the recent circulation of forged Bank of England five-pound-notes. The men are stil on their trial, and it would therefore be unfair to assume their guilt; but we may at least, entertain the hope that a great fraud which threatened everybody has been checked. The imitations are so good that it is almost impossible for anyone but an expert to detect them. The paper is not quite as thin or as crisp as that. of a genuine note, but the difference is so Slight that unless one has genuine notes to compare the doubtful one with, one might easily be deceived. And the slight Never Desratr of being able to overcome the troubles of this world, for they will disappear like dew before the sun if we only took them squarely in the face. If yon are with any bodily disease, give Hullo. way they will afford speedy relief, and in They ate the best known remedies complaints, During the summer months any people are afflicted with bowel and liver disorders, diarrhea, dysentery, colic, low ete. These remedies are unequalled in euch cases, and should therefore he the Vade Mecum of all who value sound health, They may be procured from all chemists and medicine vendors, by the event, but the change is slight, and there has existed for years the feel-jing that Germany's competition with America in trade has not, always been fair and scrupulous. There tis not that instinetive sympathy between the peoples uch ax has developed recently between Great Britain and this country. ithe Republican Party in Congress is paying the penalty that often comes from too certain a majority—{nternal dissension. The question of what to do for Cuba, or whether to do is the rock upon which the The administration ly urging the moral obligation that rests upon Congress to enact a measure that shall ensure prosperity in the island. A reciprocity treaty that. shall admit Cuban sugar and tobacco into the country at preferential rates iz the proposition, but against it, are arrayed the Fepresentatives of the bect sugar interests of the western states, and (less important) the tobacco interests of Connectient. The opponents have with them the Speaker of the House, the members of the Committee on Rules, and probably a majority of the Ways and Means Committee. Against. this combination it is extremely difficult to get any measure before the House for action. This substantially has been the. situation for a month, and no solution of the difficulty is yet in sight.
The Isthmian Canal problem before Con-of the Isthmian canal. This question is before the Senate, and opinion with regard to choice of route is seemingly hopelessly divided. Before the reduction of price by the French company in its offer of the Panama route property a clear majority of both houses was for the Nicaraguan route. But follow; ing the amended offer of the French company the canal commission reversed its its preference for the Panama route. This action brought the support of enough senators and representatives to destroy the Nicaraguan majority, but not enough to construct a Panama majority. An additional complications Columbia's evident disposition, shown recently, to insist upon getting more money from somewhere in return for its concessions of route. So complex has the situation become that it is possible that the present session of Congress will close without any canal legislation, though such a confession of incapacity would be sure to react upon the Republican party in the Congressional elections next fall. It has been seriously proposed to pass a measure providing simply for the construction of an isthmian canal, and leaving the choice of routes entirely in the hands of the President, but Roosevelt, is by no means desirous of such responsibil lity.
Miss Alice Roosevelt Is not to attend the coronation of King Edward after all. No definite statement of the reasons responsible for this change of plan is possible, but it is said that adverse criticism of the proposed trip has come to the President's ears from various parts of the country. It is said, too, that the President gave only tentative permission for liis daughter's attendance at the coronation, and was all the time determined that if i did not appear to meet with entire approval ft would be cancelled. Instead, Miss Roosevelt has now gone to Cuba for three or four weeks, as the guest of Governor-General Wood and Mrs. Wood.
Official Reports were very recently received at the Navy Department from Commander EH. B. Barry, commanding the United States gun-Boat Vicksburg in regard to the troubles at Newchwang, China, last December, between Russian soldiers and sailors front the Vicksburg, which formed the basis of a complaint to this Government by the Russian Minister at Peking. According to the statements of Commander Barry there were tio incidents which caused friction between the American and Rusgian authorities at Newchwang. This Chinese town was seized by the Russians in the Boxer troubles of 1900, and was placed under the control of a Russian civil administrator. The Vicksburg spent the winter just passing at Newchwang. The first trouble arose over the shooting of a Russian sentry. The administrator complained to Conimander Barry and to Henry E. Miller, United States Consul there, that the sentry had been shot by a sailor from the Vicksburg, who could be identified by an overcoat which he had left behind. Commander Barry called on the Adminktrator to produce the overcoat, but he declined to do so. The complaint was made before the return to the icksburg of any of the sailors who were ashore when the shooting occurred, and when these came aboard they were searched and examined. Every man had His overcoat, and gone had any firearms. When the result of the examination vas made known to the Administrator he pro~ duced the overcoat, which was shown to he entirely different from the kind used by enlisted men in the United States The Administrator thereupon ape! gised to the United States Consul and Commander Barry and withdrew his complaint. The second trouble arose from aroid made by Russian soldiers on a clubroom established ashore by the Vicksburg's men. Some rifles to be used in private theatricals had been brought ashore from a British ship, and as_ this was contrary to the military regulations instituted by the Russian authorities, a
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