Foreign

Th relUions bet ween Franee and Srazl; arr seven ly strained It is feared tpar will i'fault. There ia a report that the seal fishinj on the Labrador coast last spring wa almost a complete fallure. It is alleged that ex-Unitefl States Consul Waller, arrested in Madagascar and taken to Franee, Is ill in prison and denled proper medical treatmínt. The Russo-Chinese loan is aald to be signed. The fishing smack Rambler, belonging in Yarmouth, Hngland. has been sunk in th north sea and flve of her crew drowned. The director of the Manora ohservatory announces an inflexión near the eouth cusp of Venus, Tisible slncfl June 9, which disappears daily at 4 o'aleck. A large military baloon burst o the grounds of the baloon department of the Germán army at Berlin, serloi"y lnjuring ñve persons. The cause o tne break is not known. Prlaca Blsmarck is very 111 at Friïarichsruhe. Members of his family ve been summoned. The viceroy of the Chinese provine ot Szechuan Is blamed tor the murder of forelgn missionaries and the detruction of thelr property. The abolition of the house of lord 1 is t; be an issue in the coming politica! campaign in England, accordlng to Lord Rosebery.