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mm ,jy THE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. Toronto, March 24. -- Wheat The market is quiet, with fair offer-ilmgs. No. 2 rod winter anld white quoted at 69a to 70c middle freights. No. 2 spring nominal 70c on Midland, and No. 2 goose at 66c on Midland. Manitoba wheat steady; No. 1 hard, 87c, all rail, grinding in transit; No. 1 Northern, 85c, aW rail, grinding in transit. No. 1 hard, 86ic, North Bay; No. 1 Northern, 84^0, North Bay. Oats -- Market is steady, with No. 2 white quoted at 30Jc, middle freigihts, and at 30c, high freights; No. 1 white, 32c. Barley--Trade is quiet, with No. 3 extra quoted at 46 to 46Jc, middle freights, and No. 3 at 43 to 43 Jc, middle freight. Buckwheat-^Theie is nothing doing, and prices nominal at 47 to 48(, ea*>t. Pea»--No. 2 white is quoted at 63c, high freights, and at 69c east. Corn -- Market is very dull; Canadian yellow nominal at 45c west, ami 50c here. No. 3 American yellow nominal at 51c outside Toron- - Flour--Ninety per cent, patents unchanged at $2.67i, middle freights, in buyers' sacks, for port. Straight rollers in sjiecial brands for domestic trade quoted $3.20 to $3.25 in bbls. Manitoba flour steady; No. 1 patents, $4.1' and seconds, $3.90. Strong ba ers', $3.80 to $3.90, bags included, Toronto. Millfeed -- Bran unchanged at here. At outside points bran quoted at $16.50 to $17, and shorts at $18 to $18.50. Manitoba bran in sacks, $20, and shorts §21 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Beans--Trade is quiet, with medium §1.65 to $1.75 per buahel, anld hand-picked, $1.90 to $2. Dried apples -- Nothing doing, with prices nominal at 3-Jc per lb. Evaporated, 6 to 6'c. Honey--The market is quiet, with prices unchanged. Strained sells at 8 to 8Jc per lb., and comb at $1.25 to $1.50 Hay, baledi--The market is quiet at unchanged prices. Choice timothy, $9.50 to $10, on track; and mixed, $8 to $8.50. Straw)--The market is quiet for ear lots on track, at $5.50 to $6 a ton. Maple synip--Five-gallon cans, $1 a gallon; one-gallon can*, $1.10, and half-gallon cans, 60c. Poultry -- Offerings small, with plrices firm. We quote: Freeh killed, (Dry-picked turkeys, 16c to 18c; geese, 10 to 12c per lb.; ducks, $1 to $1.25; chickens (young), 85c to $1; old hens, 60 to 70c per pair. Totatoes -- Market is steady, with fair offerings. Car lots are quoted at $1 a bag, and small lots at SI.20 to 81.25. THE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter--The butter market continues firm, with moderate supplies. Denial*! is good for choice qualities. "We quote: Selected dairy (,fresh made), 16£ to 18c; choice large rolls, 18c; finest 1-lb. prints, 18 to 19c; creamery prints, 21 to 22.',c; solids (fresh made), 19 to 20c; held, 18 to 18 Jc. Eggs)--Tne market is lower, with buyers holding off. Sales of new laid to-day at 12J to 13c per doyen. Cheese--Market firm, with light quote: Finest, 13 Jc; LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Maroh 24. -- There was an active business transacted ir both butchers' and export cattle at the Western Cattle Market to-day. Prices, however, did not improve and the lightness of the receipts accounted for the activity In buying. Butchers were a little short of meat, and in some instances forced prices by competition a little above their normal basis to secure their supply The arrivals were 48 cars, containing 637 cattle, 117 sheep, 1,800 hogs, and 44 calves. In export cattle the range of prices was $4.30 to $4.60 per < for choice to picked lots. Extra fine ones were worth something higher than the above. Lights were sold at $4 to $4.25 per cwt. Butchers' cattle were quoted at $4 to 84.35 for the best, $3.85 to $4.15 for fair to medium, $3.35 to $3.6; for common to fair, and $2.75 t< $3.10 for rough and inferior. Export bulls were worth from $3.65 to Butchers' bulls were quoted at $! $3.50 per cwt. Stockers and feeders were in fair demand. Goad feeders were worth $3.75 to $4.25 per cwt., and stockers, $3 to $3.65. Milch cows continued weaik. The receipts were 6 or 7, and the prices $25. $50. Prices in sheep were steady a uinohniiged. There is a good demand for grain-fed ewes with few offering. Poor stuff did not sell briskly. We quote: Export ewes, $4 to $4.50 per cwt.; bucks, $3 to $3.50; grain-fed ewes and wethers, $5.60 to $6; grain-fed bucks., $5 to $5.50; barnyard lambs, $4.50 to $5. The market for calves was weak and the prospects are for lower prices. We quote as follows: Calves, $2 to $10 each, and $4.50 to $6 per The log market was steady anJd unchanged. The following is the range of quo- 10'. port ere' cattle-- Per 100 lbs. Choice ...............$4.30 $4.60 Medium .............. 3.85 4.20 Light .......... ... 4.00 0.00 Heifers............ Bulls ............ Feeders.......... Stockers ......... Calves, each ...... halves, per 100 lbs logsv- Sows ............ 4.35 4.00 3.90 4.50 3.50 10.00 6.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, Doings of Our Law Makers ai NEW RAILWAY. Crown Attorney Curry introduced a deputation of American and Canadian capitalists to Premier Ross, and laid" before him a proposal construct a railway from New Liskeard to Lake Obitibee. The cost, they thought, would be $20,-000 per mile, and they want land concessions for colonization purposes or a cash subsidy. They were told by the Premier to put their request in writing. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. The provincial inspector of charitable institutions, Dr. Chamberlain, in _ a statement he has prepared, shows that there are thirty-one charitable institutions in Toronto, exclusive of the asylum, receiving $5,203.24 from the Government, and last year 2,571 persons were cared for in them. As far as he can ascertain, he says, the city aids twenty-seven of them to the extent of $65,-608.06, and in addition to this spent last year $11,000 for outdoor relief work, making a total of $76,-608.07 spent for charitable purposes. In the other towns and cities of the province there are 101 similar institutions, which cared for 4,286 inmates last year, and received $117,003.05 from the Government, and thus, Dr. Chamberlain points out, it will be seen that To-ronto gets more money in proportion from the Government than the province as a whole. THE COMMISSION. Hon. Geo. W. Ross announced the personnel of the commission in the Gamey charges--Chief Justice Fal-conbridge and Chancellor Boyd. tigate all the charges by Mr. Gamey and all matters which they may deem related thereto. They are empowered to call witnesses, and have the same right to administer oaths and proceed in any way as High Court judges. No >s can be excused from an-g questions on the ground TWO CHILDREN KILLED. And Nearly Fifty Passengers In jured. A despatch Pinned in a v which was lying on its side in five feet of icy wate the daught. two little babies, of Mr. and Mrs. Huston, of Thessalon, and the other the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin, of Niagara Falls, met their death on Wednesday afternoon. The Grand Trunk train for Southampton and intermediate northern points, was late in leaving Guelph, and in consequence was traveling at a high rate of speed in an endeavor to make up lost time. There were about 75 passengers on board, and the train was in charge of Conductor J. J. Lillis and Engineer Hazol-woold. For a time everything went well, but about four miles the other side of Marden, a flag station four miles east of this city, the rear triuck of the last car, for some unexplained reason, jumped the - track and was wrenched free of the car. The dragging and bumping of the passenger coach caused the other cars to leave the track, and for fully three hkindred yards the whole train, except the engine, was trembling on the edge of a ten-foot embankment. It was doubtless owing to this fact that so few of the passengers were dangerously wounded, as they all were warned of danger and had prepared themselves for the shock. OVER THE TRESTLE. The crippled train at last reached low trestle bridge, crossing a small creek, which was swollen by the spring rains. The tottering baggage and smoking cars pitched off the trestle into the water, and dragged the passenger coaoh down them, all three cars rolling m their sides, and resting in swift-running water from four to n depth. The shock was that the smoker and the passenger ooaoh split open, the scats broke from their fastenings, and the icken passengers were thrown in a struggling heap into the :onds, 13ic; , 14c. HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are firm, meats steady. We quote: clear, 10 to lOJc, in t< lots. Porto--Mess, $21; out, $22.50. ... Smoked meats -- Hams, 13 to 13Jc; rolls, ll£c; shoulders, 11c; backs, 14 to 14^c; breakfast bacon, 14 to 14Jc. Lard/--The market is steady. We quote: Tierces, 10Jc; tubs, 11c; pails, 11 ic. BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. Montreal, March 24. -- In feed, meats and provisions there are no changes, but prices are steady; and farm products are unchanged. Grain _No. 1 Manitoba hard wheat, 73c; No. 1 Northern, 71Jc, March delivery; No. 1 hard, 75c; No. 1 Northern, 72£c, ex-store, May delivery; peas, 69 Jc, high freights; oe' 2 in store here, 36fc to 3 51c east; buckwheat, 484 east, for May delivery; No. 1 oats, 38Jc; No. 2, 374c; rye, 00c; buckwheat, 56 to 57c; peas, 31c. Flour-Manitoba patents, $4.20; seconds, $3.90; Ontario straight rollers, $3.-50 to $3.65; in bags, $1.70 to $1.-75; patents, at $3.70 to $4.10. Rolled oats--Millers' prices, $2 bags, and $4.15 per bbl. Feed^Manitoba bran, $19 to $20; shor $22, bags included; Ontario bran bulk, $18 to $18.50; shorts ;- 1 $20 to $21. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, March 24. -- Flour -- Stcadv. Wheat -- Spiring, no ce-m.arid; weak; No. 1 hard, 86*c; winter, nominal; No. 1 white, 80c; No. 2 red, 80c. Corn -- Weak; No. 2 yellow, 46Jc; No. 2 corp, 46c. Oats --Steady; No. 2 white, 41c; No. 2 mixed, 39c. Barley--Track offered at 56 to 59c. Rye -- No. 2, 58Jc asked on track. St. Louis, March 24. -- Closed -- Wheat--Cash, 08Sc; May, 69»c; July, 68ic. Dul'uth, March 24. -- Close--Wheat to arrive, No. 1 Northern, 74-fc; No. 2 Northern, 72|c; May, 74Sc.; July, 74-jc. Oata--May, 33c. Minneapolis, March 24. -- Wheat-May WANT OUR MANUFACTURES Enquiries Received by Manufacturers' Association. Toronto despatch says: Numerous trade enquiries have been re-d lately by the Canadiaii Man-:urers' Association. The demand for the Dominion's manufactures extends from Europe to Australia. Finland wants our flour, one having a particularly coarse ground, the so-called "granular" flour is desired. This is spoken of as a particularly good opening for the Canadian article, as there is at present no import cPuty. Dressed- oak spokes are much in demand in Wales. Madras, India, wants cheap jewelry of all kinds, cheap watches and musical instruments. It is understood that several Dominion firms are working up this trade. From Adelaide, South Australia, comes a query about picture mouldings, Canadian butts, corsets, steel rails and wire netting. Windmills are wanted in South Aus1-tralia. Sulch enquiries are daily increasing and offer first-class oppor-:ties for the extension of Can- MAY PRESS CLAIM nd Mrs. Huston and their Jrl were in the bottom of the that it might incriminate himself. :pile"and suffered severe injuries. The Stenographic reports of the case are ' little one was in the water for fully be taken, and the Commissioners j five minutes, and when rescued was 1 return them to the House, with j almost resuscitated by Dr. Savage, any report they may see fit to but the thread of life was too weak, make. The Commissioners have Mrs. Huston, although herself badly power to investigate not only the I Hurt, and unable to free herself, was Gamey charges, but any charges aris-' frantically calling for help for ing out of or relating to those baby, and her imploring calls, charges which any member of t in in y ing DEPUTATIONS. A deputation from the Sault Ste. Marie Board of Trade asked the Government that permission be given to a new furniture factory at the Soo to cut hardwood and pine. It suggested that each employe of the factory be given 160 acres of setters' lands on the usual terms, and that the factory, through these, be allowed to aet the wood front the land. The Premier prm„i»<;u jf. give the request consideration. A deputation from Victoria County saw the Government and requested that tho law regarding traction engines be amended so that it will not be applicable to engines used for .threshing purposes or for road-'making material. IMMIGRATION. The Government Immigration Agent in England has cabled Director of Colonization Southworth that he is unable to say how many people will come to Ontario this year. A great difficulty, he says, is the poor steamboat accommodation. l bulk, - Nortihe No. hard, jc; No. 2 Northern, ttents, $3.75 irts, 83.65 to $3.75; second Bran--In bulk, A despatch to the London Chronic from Constantinople says that nee Mr. Leishman, the American iinister, returned two months ago he has been vainly seeking an audi- e of the Sultan to deliver an^ autograph letter from President| Roosevelt, who in the letter calls his Majesty's attention to the claims of the American missionaries in Armenia and elsewhere, and asks for their prompt settlement. The Sultan, being aware of Mr. Irishman's instructions to press the claims, purposely postponed the desired audience. Mr. Leishman's patience was ultimately exhausted, and he visited Tcwfik Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and required to know within three days whether the Sultan would receive him or not. Tewfik Pasha promised that his Majesty would receive him after the Bairam festival, but the promise has not been fulfilled. Mr. LeisJunnn is naturally exasperated, and it would not be surprising if American warships were again ordered to Turkey. A LONG-CHERISHED PLAN A London despatch says: The general impression in the Netherlands that Germany is only awaiting a favorable moment and excuse for xing the country. This in-pros-has been growing for several „s, especially in view of the fact that if France should be placated by the suggestion to take Belgium, there would be no protector to whom Holland could appeal with any hope of a response. The railway trouble in Holland is causing uneasiness that Germany may look on this as a good chance to carry out her designs. the groans and entreaties of the other injured passengers, ply heartrending. Eventually the more fortunate passengers freed themselves and began to seek an exit. After considerable trouble they succeeded in breaking a hole in the door and smashing the upper windows, and through these apertures the wounded were removed from the car. A number of farmers living near th'e scene of the wreck were soon at han'd, and assisted in rescuing the wounded, while one of their number hastened to Marden and reported the news of the wreck. Word was sent to Fergus and to Guelph, and special auxiliary trains were despatched to the scene of the disaster, bearing physicians and nurses. CANAL UNDER UNION JACK ROCKEFELLER'S INCOME CHINESE ALARMED. A Montreal despatch says: The proposal of the Dominion Government that a tax of $500 shall in future be imposed on laborers of Chinese origin entering Canada and that the person in command of or in utoargo of any vessel or vehicle bringing Chinese immigrants into Canada, Shall be personally liable for the payment of the tax, has created considerable excitement among the Chinese residents of Montreal, who declare the proposal an unwise, ell as a harsh one. A New York despatch says: John . Rockefeller last week receiveC cheque for $8,000,000, his dividend n his Standard Oil stock to the ..mount of $40,000,000. His brother, who has only $15,000,000 in-rested in the company, will receive $3,000,000. John D. Rockefeller al-" a cheque for $1,500,000, of his dividends on Consolidated Gas Company's stock. From Standard Oil stock alone during the last nineteen days Mr. Rockefeller received $88,S88.88 a day. For the four quarters he will get $32,333,331.20. SEA WALL GAVE WAY Havoc by Floods in Ireland-- England Suffers. A London despatch says: The heaviest snowfalls of the present winter were reported from parts of England last week. Rain and hail fell elsewhere in Great Britain and Ireland, accompanied by gales, causing floods and great damage. Between Londonderry and Coleraine havoc caused by the breaching of the wall. Thousands of acres of farm lands were submerged, and hundreds of families fied from ruined homesteads. In the northeast part of rVarwickshire several villages were nundated and cut off from oommurn-cation with-.tke neighboring towns. A Montreal despatch says: Mr. Joseph Pope. C. M. G., Untier-Sac-retary of State, has been searching the past few days among the archives of the Chateau de RamoTay, his city, for material to prove the Canadian contention in the Alas-an boundary dispute. As a restult if his search, a couple of old lases, published in the j-ears 1823 and 1824 were found. These maps showing the location boundary line between Russian America, as Alaska was then called, and British America, as Canada was then known. A point worthy of note in connection with these maps is that Lynn Canal is shown as ing in British America. This canal is at present claimed by the United States Government as a portior " Alaskan territory. The boundary line between the two countries is well defined in the maps, which have been taken to Ottawa for further scrutiny on the part of those supervising the Canadian claims Another map, dated 1860, was also found, giving the boundaries of Alaska seven years before it passed into the hands of the United States. Mr. Pope obtained permission from the Chateau authorities to take these documents to Ottawa, where the maps will be photographed. They may bo of service to the Canadian commissioners in the coining conference with the United States. THE CZAR'S REALM. A St. Petersburg despatch says: The principal demands of the Riis-•eformers ar Firs proveiuent in elementary education untder popular control; Second, the establishment of Zem-tovs where they {To not now exit,- and the granting of greater powers and representative character } Zemstovs everywhere; Third, the completion of tho Liberation Act of Alexander, by the placing of the peasantry on a footing of legal equality with the rest of Fourth, a change in financial pol-y by relieving the peasantry of the burdon of taxation now imposed for the sake of encouraging mushroom NOTICES OF BILLS. Mr. Low--To amend the Canada Temperance Act. Mr. Clancy--To amend the Dominion Elections Act. Mr. Scott -- To amend the railway Act. Sir Wm. Mulock--To aid in the settlement of railway labor disputes. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has also given notice of a bill to regulate and restrict ' Chinese immigration, which will provide for increasing the poll tax on Chinese to $500. ESTIMATES PRESENTED. Mr. Fielding presented the estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904. ST. JAMES ELECTION. The Speaker read the record of the Supreme Court in the matter of the St. James election appeal, to the effect that the appeal was dismissed ith costs. BILLS INTRODUCED. Mr. Charlton introduced a 1 nend the Railway Act. It pro-des for changing the minii Bit subsidized railroads live on account of work done from $60,000 to $30,000. Mr. Charlton also introduced a bill to an Dominion Election Act. Mr. Lancaster introduced amend the Railway Act. vides that Railway Companies shall furnish proper cattle guards at the highway crossings. Mr. Fitzpatrick introduced which provides that when a Supreme or Superior Court judge has attained the age of seventy-five and has served as judge for twenty years or or when he has attained the if sixty-five and has served as judge for thirty years,, he may be retired on full pay. Mr. Fitzpatrick also introduced a ill to amend the Expropriation Act, hich will permit the Government a acquire a portion of any property required for public purposes. Another bill removes doubts as to the right of the Yukon Council to summon jurors; another bill makes provision whereby juvenile offenders may be removed from a reformatory to a penitentiary. Still another Government measure regulates the question of fees in connection with the publication of the statutes. The Minister of Justice also introduced a bill -to amend the Criminal Code by prohibiting the presentation of immoral and indecent plays, and imposing more severe punishment for those engaging in- them. Mr. Fiuzpatrick's seventh bill was to amend the Controverted Elections Act, and provides that election trials need not necessarily take place in the county affected. Mr. Casgrain was informed that the Government had under consideration the question of increasing the salaries of the judges. Mr. Bennett was told by Mr. Pat-■son that the grain receipts at lake _ arts during last, year vere as follows: Midland, 15,017,7(10 busnels; Depot Harbor, 12,710,3 13; Colling-wood, 2,447,324; Owen Sound, 1,-794,387; Meaford, 2,563,311; Goder-ich, 2,226,660; Kingston. 6,848,000; Prescott, 977,490. INFORMATION WANTED. Mr. Jabel Robinson (West Elgin) will enquire in the House of Commons whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce during the present year a system of free rural mail delivery in any part of the Dominion. Mr. McGowan (Middlesex) has given notice of an enquiry as to whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation at the present session regarding private bankers, so that their transactions may be made more public, and depositors be enabled to ascertain their financial strength. Mr. Bickerdike has given notice of motion to the effect that the proper legislative remedy for the of the cigarette trade is to be found in the enactment and enforcement oi a law prohibiting the importation, manufacture and sale of cigarettes. Mr. Demers (St. John's and Iberville) will introduce a bill to indemnify those who suffer damages in •quence of fires caused by rail- NEWSJTEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. CANADA. Hand: toil expects to raise $15,000 for its kiltie regiment. The v,ork of widening the deep water chaanel at Collingwood is to Win St. pnshxl ahead. >(•;>• hotels are filled, and a< ation in the Prairie City i premiums. C itharines temperai have requested the Counck down the number of licenses. American capitalists will operate the got properties in Manitoba adjoining '.he Ontario boundary. Ferni;, B. C, barbers will raise the price of shaves to 25 cents and will charge 50 cents for a hair cut. The Japanese Consul at Victoria says t • will bo no emigration oi tho laboring"' class of Japanese to itisb Columbia this summer. A sharp axtvance in the cost of building operations will be made at the "Soo" this spring. Wages and materia la have already advanced. Lord Alverston, the Chief Justice of England, and two Canadian Judges will be the British Commissioners on the Alaska boundary. William Smith, aged 75, a patient in the Home for Incurables at Portage la Prairie, committed suicide on Saturday by cutting his throat with GREAT BRITAIN. A "County Council garden" is to be established at Aylesbury, Bucks, for instructing lads in horticulture, William Blake, a retired policeman, was fined 54 shillings for stealing wine from the sacristy of St, Michael's church, Croydon. Daring burglars entered a jewelry store in Upper street, Islington, and cleaned up £0,000 worth of valua- Four hundred and eighty guineas, a record price, was paid by Lord Rosebery for a prize Aberdeen-Angus at Perth. The second reading of Mr. Tay-repression ol s carried in tualist: the House of C jority of 51. For pick::',,' up and kissii boy in the --civet a liirmin; I.ned 40s T>r on hard labor, for assault. Prince of Wales has 8th for his visit to Wrexhi by : •lorial 3 who fell i the bury .•ays. TRANSPORTATION. J. X. Perrault, of Montreal, and C. N. Bell, of Winnipeg, will be the secretaries of the Transportation So far i reply been received from Sir Win. Van Home as to whether or not he accept the chairmanship. REDISTRIBUTION BILL, mong the changes proposed by the Redistribution Bill will probab-isappearopce of the constituencies of Bothwell and Card-well and one of the Middlesex. The exclusive of London, kelihood, be divided in-, North and South Middlesex. Muskoka will get member, and so also will Parry Sotund. At. present there are two ted. Algoma, which has a pop-tion of 63,000, and at present f has one member, will be giv« additional representative. This, -eforr vith a limitatio y powers of polic, of the press eens* he irreducible mi latisiy the moderat FROM CANADIAN PORTS Its A Montreal despatch says: That the Canadian Pacific Railway will ship all the grain possible from Canadian ports is the announcement by Mr. G. M. Bosworth, fourth vice-president. Up to the present time Mr. Bosworth states that they have been obliged to ship from Boston and New York, but that owing to the purchase of the steamships they would now carry their yvheat over their new lines to Montreal. He stated that 800,000 bushels are now on the way from Fort William, and mid f of t Welsh Fus African war. med Dunthorne, of Glastonbury, was attempting to re-his insane father from cross-front of a train at Glaston-rrd both were killed, aching for the "dolly" a little girl at Sheffield fell into a washing tub of hot suds and was drowned. At Barmborough, about the same time, another little girl was At Birkdale, Southport, Rev. M. O. Fitzmaurice, vicar of St. James' Church, Bolton, was sentenced to three months' hard labor for collecting charitable contributions by false and fraudulent pretensions. UNITED STATES. The Women's Christian Temperance Union will meet in Cincinnati on November 13 to 18. J. Whitaker Wright, wanted in connection with the London & Globe Finance Corporation failure, was arrested in New York on Sunday. Between three and four thousand union men of the allied brick-making trades struck Monday in St. Louis, demanding an eight-hour day and a five per cent, increase. The United States is awakening to the need of better shooting, and the Ittee of the National Rifle Association are meeting with a view to organizing corps of sharpshooters in different parts of the States. A Washington despatch says United States Consul J. L. Billinger at Montreal has been asked to resign because of opinions he expressed while visiting St. Louis regarding Canada. GENERAL. The population of China is placed bv the Board of Revenue at 426,-447,000. The German Emperor and the Russian Czar will visit Rome in May and November respectively. German Socialists complain that Emperor William openly supports duelling in the army. is reported that the famine among the Russian Cossacks of the Terek is increasing in seriousness. Revolutionary leaders declare that the Macedonians will fight Turkey alone unless European troops occupy their country and guarantee peace. The highest waterfall in the world as lately been discovered in the ierra Madro Mountains, in Mexico. The cascade of Bassaseachie falls 978 feet at one drop. The Trans-Siberian Railway, since was started ten years ago, has dw been extended to a length of 3,700 miles, and has cost tho Rus-Government about $262,440,-000. a speech given before a representative body of literary men in St. Petersburg, M. Semevsky, who recently deprived of his professorship on account of his liberal _„ ". ions, said that the agitation for political reform had broken out with increased foros. THREE NEW VESSELS . P. R. to Arrange for Vessels for Pacific Service. A Montreal despatch says: Mr. Piers, superintendent of the Canadian Pacific steamship service, has been authorized to negotiate in England for ; for j I'aci if the c ; favorable.