Foreign

Katltoff, editor of the Moscow, Russla, Gozette, is dead. Said tbat the coerción act is seriously depressing values in Ire!and. Crops in various parts of Belgium have been completely destroyed by grasshoppers. Peasants and farmers of Central Russia are emigrating in large numbers to Liberia. A number of members of the Irish constabulary have resigned as a protest aeainst the coerción law. Tba British government bas decided to subsidize the Canadian Pacific route for the transportation of the British transPacific mails. Queen Victoria is going to institute an order of literary merit, consisting of"2J knights, 50 knights' companions and 100 companions. ïwo pleasure yachts, botU well ladnn with people. ere capsized in a souall HF Ynrmouth the other day. Ten persons were drowned. Mrs. Hubbard, the wife of the United States minister to Japan, died in Tokio on the lat nst. Mrs. Hubbard had Leen in ilhealth for inany months. The Ameer of Afghanistan has ordered the enlistment in the Afghan artny of one in every twentyeight men eligible fur military service in Afghan-Turke-tan. George Bidwell, who wa sentenced to life imprionment for forging bank of England note-, has been ïeleased from confinemeut on the ground of ill heaüli. The Ameer of Afghanistan has isued a proclamation to the rebels to return to thoir homes, and sayR he will only punlsh the chiefs in the insurrection. He warns Great Britain against permittiug Ayoub Khan to approarh the frontier. In the house of commons Mr. O'Doherty's amendment to the land bilí, limitlng ; to three years the claim for providing for written notices of eviction instead of thp present method, was detentad by a vote of212to 15(5, and further debate was declared off. The High Court of Foresters, sitting at Glasgow, has practically reversed the decisión of the American sub-idiary court. gtispendins a branch of the order for admitting Negroes to membership. by grantng to tlie suspended brauch a newdisuneatioii under the Ëngtish court.