Foreign

- London. - A special dispatch from Paris says that the French Steamship Company will shortly construct a new fleet of steamers for service between Havre and New York, and that the average speed of each steamer will not be less than twenty-two kipta per jiöui. ' Berlin. - Professor Slaby, assisted by t-he military balloon eorps in experi? weutlng with Mtarcon's wireless telograph, succeeded perfectly yesterday, in splte of adverse atmospherical condltions, in exchanglng messages without wire3 at a distance of twenty-one kilometers. Paris.- The schema for reconstructiug the cayy includes a naval base at Bizerta, a fprtified seaport of Tunis. North África. Vienna.- A dispatch received from Tokio, Japan, says it is reported there that the king of Corea has proolaimed himself emperor of Corea. Berlin.- The charge of leze majesty brought agalnst the Frankfurter Zeitung for criticising the erratic course pf' EmpWb.r William "has been dispUssecf. ' fondón.- A dispatch to tüe Paily Mail from Cape Town says that Dr Jameson, the leader of the Transvaal raid, wil! seek a seat in the Cape Assembly at the next general election .The chief plank in his platform wil bg; "Kcderation for South África."