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)' ^: â- ^ / IK US HI ill THE VERY LATEST PROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. hrtarMtlag Itims Aboat Our Own Conntry. OrMt Britain, lb* Unltmt SUtei, and AM Pvte of tb* Qlobe, C«b4«iim4 mMI AH«rta4f«r Baiy RMdln*. CANADA. Quebec PitmiDcial electioDB are an- lw>uiioed for May U. Mayor Uio^ibajii, o( Ottawa has given bis February aitiury to cbaritiee. Bevemty-thiree private biHls are ent- ered for the cotaiuK seasioQ of Parlia- ment. Tbere is a good demand for farm lab- orers and domestic help in Manitoba. Ottawa propuBea to spend 1150,000 in Improving its fire systieax and water- worka. Tltt) annual report of the C. P. B. tor the year 189t> sbowB iiet earnings of f8,107J5ei. Mr. W. C. Maudonald of Montreal baa made another gift to McGill Ubi- veraily amounting to over 9tiOO,00O. The Brookville Town, Council is con- sidering the advisability of passing a bj-lanv imposing a tax upon bicycles. Captain Provost of the Montreal; \fire brigade, has decided to accept the offer to become chief of Ottawa fire brigadje. Mr. Geo. H. Orr iof iXoronto has been elected President of the Canadian .Wheelmen's Association without oppo- lAtion. The Kingston cotton mill, which bas doeed down temporarily, will, after next weeilc, only rum three days a week. ^ The C.P.R. have sent a party pf sur- veyors out to southern British* Colum- bia lo survey a railway in the mining ouuntry. ' I'he Moi&treal Street Bailway earn- Lngs for February were $89,951, an in- orease of 92,557 over the same month otf last year. Mr. \Vm. Seager, a resident of Lon- don, was probably fatally injured by falling froim a train at Brokenbead station, Man. >â-  ,Mr. Joseph Martin, ex-MJ>., of Win- gipeg confirms the statement that be as otfn appoimted special counsel for tb« C.P3. Mr. Luurier sat tor bis portrait in Montreal. When completed it will be presented to the Premier by his Mont- real friends. A Fish and Game Protective Associa- tion has been organized in WoodsUwjD, to see that the game laws are enforced and to Btoik certain districts with quail. A delegation from the parishes along the south shore of the St. Lawrence waited on the Ministry at Ottawa to ar^e the extension uf the Intercolonial Bailway to Montreal. Two people, oiw' aged 70 and the other 71, were married in Ottawa on Wednea- day. Their pariah prie.st refused to marry them, but they (u-c.ured the ap- Vroval of the Archbishop. , On Thursday afternoon three small -boys fell through the ioe at Chatham, when (our men went to their rescue and also (ell in. It was with great dif- ficulty that all seven were finally re»- euad. The Hamilton chief of police intemis making a test case to nee whether the lattery under the management of the Promotive of Art Association of Mont- real comes under the criminal code. The local branch of the National Oouncil of Women has petitioned the London City Council to impose restric- tions on the sale of cigarettes, and it fa prolmble that the petition will be panted. Mr. Torrance, the Ot-nadian agent of tbe Dominion nl.namship line, has been iofltrurted from Knglish headquarters to withdraw any offers made to the Canadian Government in connection with the fast service. It is Btal«d that Mr. H. 3. Osier, re- presenting a Toronto syndicate, has se- cured option/i on a majority of the Hauiiiton Btxeet Railway stuck, the 'II. and D. stock, and aliout 50 per cent, of tba Itadial Railway stot^k. An agreement has twen reached by a joint committiM^ of the Chatham City Coiuicil and Mr. L. E. Myers, uf Chi- cago, reprnse<iitiiig capitalists who are prepared to builci the City and Subur- ban Klectric railway, and to construct and maintain an electric lighting plant. The Government hoe lieen awked by reaideivts of Ottawa and porllons of Russell and Carleton counties to H|)end alxiut 935,000 in lowering the iiotlom of the lUdeau river nojir the outlet, wrbere it is shallow, and to let off' I ho water from thf Ridcau lakes curly in tbe spring by means of the I(,id<>au can- al, ti> preveol the spring floods. RRRAT nHITAlN. TInKvonted activity is n-iKjrted in the British dockyards. Atlantic steamers arriving in the Olyde report extremely tempcstuoiui weather the last few days. Sir Donald Sinifhi Canadian High) Oommisnioner in Knglanil hits sailed for Canada to consult with the (Jcyvern- menl regarding immigration matters It was stated in thn Imperial Par- liament that flu^ proposal to create rn- Slmenlal districts in t)u« coloni<v< had been referred tn th<i Dominion of Can- ada for an opinion th<>reon. The sysdicate oppoinled by Cam- bridge University (o consider the quejj- tion of granting degnves to women re- commends that the degree of n.A. be conferred by diploima upon I base who llBve already najwed or hereafter pass- inig th? final tripos. The aitalement that a stale of ten- sion exists between (ireAt llritain and Belgium regarding t;h«' indemnity claimed for th<* arre.st of Hen Tillett, tie KnSflish laliour agitator, at Ant- werp la.st yejir, is deniieil at the For- eign Office, wliJch dei'.lares that the ne- goltiationfl on the subject are pro- oeedint^t amicably. TJN-ITTCI) STATES. Mr- Andrew( Carnegie is seriously ill St Greeniwioh Coinn. Th»j retiinsliilar Oar deiwrlmcnt of the IMichigan IVminsular Car Com- pnny, of Dt'troil, Ikis closed down. Chauncey M. Dei>ew has accepted the â-  obairmanwiip of tlie Hnard of (N)ntrot ot the Joint 'lYaftic Aesociation- fix -Governor JoKnf D. Long, of Bing- ham, Mass., has accepted the navy j^ort- foiliu in President McKinley's Cabinet. The Lehigh and Wilkeebarre Coal Company has i'naiisurated a s^steoit or reitrenchtnents at all of its collieries^ . Mr. OorneJiiis N. Bliss, of Newi York; BTiH acc«pted a position in the MfKiuiey Cabinet, probably t,h*i Secretaryship o£ tbe Interior. The United States House of Repres- bill over, the President's vote by a vote bill over the President's veto by a vote of 193 to 87. The directorsl of Mount Holyoke Col- lege announce the gift to the college of $40 000 for a dormitory by John D. Rockefeller. ' Theodore XJurant, the con'victed mur- derer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams, has been refused a new trial, at San Franscisco. trine- mining town of Wyoming, Pa.,i with a population' of four thousand in- habitants, is cavinc[ in, and it is feared it will be engulfed in tbe mine on which it is built. The Chicago City Council, by anf 'unanimous vote, has passe<l an ordin- ance requiring tobacconists to take out a hundred dollar- license for the sale ot cigdj-ettee. President Cleveland, on Wednesday signed the bill authorizing the con- struction of a railway bridge over tbei St. Lawrence river, connecting Hog- ansport, N. Y., and Oornwall, Ont. CbmmerciaJ reports from the United States indicate no particuiiar change in the general condition of trade across the Tine ; it is olaimed that there is in progress a steady, altliough slow imiirovement, as a better deinamd for products appears to be experienced all round, wbile speculative nuying is go- ing on in some lines on account of pro- lable change in duties ; this is parti- cularly in case with wool. Reports of recent failures in the States show an iincrease in number, but a decrease iu liabilities, which latter phase is dUa to th« caution (or BonM» time past ei- ercised In p •iug large credits. In Cleveland and other places some strikes have occurred; in the I>ake iron mines wages will probably be reduced ; but tl>e total indusiruif force at work is said to be steadily inci-easing. GKNERAL. Since the beginning of tbe plague at Bombay thr^e have been 6,383 cases and 6,979 deaths. It is reiwrted in Canea that 2,000 Mussulmans who wet's confined in tbe fortress near Selino tiave been massa- oted. I The left wing of the monastery of St. Bernard has been destroyed by an av- aJandie, and the monks had to tunnel through the snow to make their exit. Three French battleships and a cru- iser have been ordered to sail immedi- ately from Toulon for the Island of Crete, to reinforce Vhe French fleet in tboae waters. A great public meeting was hield on Thursday night at Athens to protest against the action of the {towers. At itji conclusion tjie crowd inarched to tbe palaoe shouting, "Warl war! war!" and were addressed by the Crown Prince. The Italian Kiulnasy at Constantin- ople has demanded formal satisfaction for thn firing of a shot across the Imiws of an' Italian mail steamer while pass- ing through the Straits of the Dardan- elles on T"ufs<l;i,y by one of tllie forts on slhure, ajtlioiigh tbe vessel displayed the UHua^ signals and had obtainexl pnttiquc. President Kruger has ordered tbe Chiftf Justice ami tbe judges of the Iligifa Court on' the South African Ke- puUic to cdtiform to the law passe.d by thn VoJksraad on February 25th, placing thrir court under the juria- dirtion o< the Volkaraad, within four- teen days and warns them not to ar- rogate to themselves the right to place their own Interpretation upon the con stitution of the country. TREE SAP. Idru Thai II Hlneii and Fallii Wllh the HrnHoii l4 Krroaront. Sap is a iw.itery fluid found in tbe interior of the cells of plants and trees, ami contains dissalve<l or suspended in it thtt materials required for the life and growth' of the cell. The idea that in winter the snp goes down into tbe roots and in the spring rises again is quite erroneous. Trees and plants ^re full of watery sap all tlito winter. . The phenomena of freezing in the CAse uf tives and [>llant,s are but little under- Htood. 'I'liu sap in leaves and in smaller brnncheis is often frozen. This is seen especially in fho twig.s of hickory, which in very cx)ld weiithcr are as liriltlu as gJasH, tliDUgh the siuue twigs at a liigher temperature cunmot by any pos- siliilily tie broken with the humlH. For various causes the water contained in the cells only begins to crystallize ut amne degrees below the ordinary freez- ing (Miint. Tliis is iHirtly due to th»i chemical compusilion. of the sap, which contains vnritms salts, starch, etc., in solution. Beside* this the Ibark of trees is a bad r^m'luctor of heat, .and tlie interior temperature of trees and plants is generally higher in winter and lower in suuuner than that of the surrounding atmosphBre. TO YOUNG MOTIIKHS. A great deal is said from time to time ttlHiut training children. It would be a good thing if many mothers would try self impiovemecnt first Mothers are almost always self-sacrificing and very seldom seJf reliant. This condi- tion works liarm to the child. If it gets Into troutde with its toys or games and at once begins to fret, the fond moth- er will at once rush to the rescue an<l straighten out the trouble, <uid kiss and cviress the child, and make its way SL'iooth, and in a>ll this is working a positive injury to her offspring. One cannot expect to find much character, self reliance or will power in a petted child. It is imiKissilile. A mother un-- dermines the foundation o( these by the weakness of her love. Goodness knows, a mother's trials are many, but it is ejvsier to extricate, a child from some little iierplexity l)y l>e- in« firm, luid demanding that the child try to right the difficulty. For a first time or two it may lie heii)ed or ehowm how to get out of its troubles. You will cultivate self confidence in this way. The aim should be at all times to make the child think and act for itself. 'By BO doing a mother will soon find her cares much lebsened. HORRORS OF THE KNIFE. AN.SSTHBTICS A GREAT BOON TO SUFFERING HUMANITY. What Barslesl Operalloas Meaal Not 8* Maay Yean Af !• (he llBfortuBSte Tictlia 9t Aa.OperaUaB ia rrlmillTe tuhton. One ot tb» mcM interesting papers read at the recent celebration in Bos- ton of the fiftieth anniTersary of tbe first admonistration of ether in a sur- gical oiteration was that by Dr. Jobn Ashhurst, ol this city. o<n "Surgery Be- fore the Days of Anaesthetics." It vividly recalls the horrors of those days when Ithe surgepn's knife was an ol>- jeot of far greater terror than now, and inflicted untold tortures upon tb« oonsoious patient. "A study, of the condition of surgery before the days ol anaesthesia," said D. Ashhurst* "re\'eal8 on the one band a picture of heroic boldness and master- ly self-control on the part of the sur- geon, and on the other a ghastly pano- rama, sometimes of stoic fortitude and. endurance, eometiniee of abject ter- ror and bumiliatioi>â€" but always of agonizing wretchedness and pain â€" on the part o< the unhappy victim who required t^ie s^rgean's aid. "The 'pilileBsnees' which Ceicus urg- ed as an essential trait in the operative surgeon was before tbe daya of anaes- thesia, a feature in the Burgeon's career, which impressed very strongly the public generally as well as those immediateily connected with tbe opera- tion. It is interesting to recall tliat Sir James Simpson uf Kdinbourgh, shortly after beginning his professional studies, was BO affected by seeing the terrible agony of a iioor UigiilaiKl woman under amputation ot the breast, that be re- BulvBd to abandon a medical career and seek other occupation, happily his in- etutions was reconsidered, and he re- turned to bis Btudies, asking himself 'Can anything be done to make opera- tions Less painful V and, as every one knows, in less than twenty years became a high priest of anaethesia, and thu in- troducer into surgical and obsterical practice of ether's great rival, chloro- form, i INSTRUMENTS OF TERROR. "No braver or more gallant gentle- man ever lived then Admiral Viscount Nelson, and after his right elbow had been shattered by a French bullet in the assault at Teneritfe, be manifested the utmost cobruge, refusing to be taken to thfc nearest ship, lest the sight ot his injury sbckjld alarm the wife of a fellow -officer whose own fate was uncertain, and when his awa ship was reached be climbed up its side without assistance, saying, 'Tell tbe surgeon to make haste and get hi» instruments. I know I must lose my right arm. so tbe sooner it is off the better.' 'He underwent the amputa- tion,' WB leurn from a private letter of unu of hip midshlijanein, 'with tbe same firmness and courage that have always marked his character,' And yet suiiain/ully washe affected by the cool- ness of tbe oiierator's knKe that when next going into action at tbe famous Imttle cf the Nile he gave standing- unlers lu bis surgeons that hot water shvuld always l>e keirt in readiness dur- ing an eng-tgenient, so that if another ojieration should be required he might at least have the i»oor comfort of be- ing liXUi with warm inBlrviiiw'nts. "On thjei side o( the surgeon we find throughout the uges a constant effort t«i diminish the terrors of operations ami a continuous reprobation of the distressing, not to say true!, modes of practice adopted by |>receding gen- eratinns. And yet the time is not very (ar distant from ours wben they lopped off aiimb \,y striking it violently with a heavy Unite; that time when they knew neither hinv to stop nor lo pre- vent hemorrhage but by burning the. pari wlientw the t«loiid jetted with l>oil- iiig nil or thp red-hot iron; that timo when «urge«ms armed themselves ut every moment with pincers, with burn- ing (viuteries and with instruments, the representutiaus even oi which causo terror. WAS IT KNOWN BHJ'ORl':. "This belief that operations might be rendered jxiinless appears to have been IiPBSent in the minds of surgeons from thii earliest periods. AVitness the ao- e<iimts of the Aleniiihis t>toue, described by DioBcorides and Pliny, which by steeping in vinegar was made to give forth the fumes of ctirbonic ai-id ; and of I he mandragora, employed, according to Theodorio, when mixed with other narcotics, by inhalation, and causing, a sleep from which a patient could only be aroUat^d by the lUnies of vinegar, >S<i profound was the stupor in(luce<l by this drug that Ikidin OHsures us that un- der its influences a man suliuiitteii without conscioiiBueMS to a painful oiieration and coiitinued to sleep for several days thereafter. "Vigo speiiks of the whole liody being 'brought asleep by the smelling of a spcnge wherein opium ia,' but warns his readers that the practice is dangerous. becAuae the use of o|>iuin( is sometimes (dllmved by gangrene. In bis work on 'Natural Magic', Uaptiata Porta speaks of a VoJatile drug kept in leaden vea- sols, which pr<i(luced sleep when ap- plied to the noBtrlla, and Perrin sug- gests that this must actually havei been ether or sotane other of the modern anaesthetic agents. "Menital pre-occupat ion was some- times sought as a means o(|)reventing pain. Ricnnrd Wiseman found that .toildiers drea<led the loss of a limb much less if it ^v«re reinoviecl immodiately , while tJiey were in tbe heat of the figlit." than' if the operation' was post- poined until next day ; 'wherefore,' he says, out it off quickly, â- while the soldier is heated and inmottle'; and Kenauldin rfwills the case of the amiable Dolo- mieu, who, exp(*»erl to the pangs of starvation in a Neapolitan dungeon, measureably alleviaind his own distress by engaging In the oocnpaBltion of a treatise on mineraloigy. while his un- fortunate servant) and fellow prisoner, wlbo bad not the same intellec'ual re- Koroes, wras ihungry enough for both. RISK OF SUDDEN DEATH. "But the preseoce of pain was not the only evil dreaded by* our predeces- sors in attemptini^ important oper- ations. The great risk of fata! acoident from some involuntary movement of the patient was constantly present to the mind of the conscientious surgeon. 'How often.' says Dr. Valentine Sfott, 'when dperating in some deep, dark wound, along the course ol! some great vein, with tnin walls alternately dis- tiended and flaccid with the vital cur- rentâ€" hn<w often have I dreaded that aotue un/orttinate struggle of the pa- tient would deviate the knife a little from its proper course, and that I, who fain would be the deliverer, should in- voluntadirly become the executioner, seeing my patient perish in my bands by the most appallinK fo(rm of death I Vhd he lieen insensibile. I should have felt no alarm.' "Camim? downl to the days more im- mediately preceding the date of the great discovery, we find that opium and alcohol were the only agents which continued to be regarded as of prac- tical value in diminishing the pam of operations, though tbe attendant dis- advantages of their employment were, of course, recognized. Meanwhile facts were accumulating, the significance of which we now plainly recognize, but which excited no attention. "Sir Humplhrey Davy, in the early days of the nineteenth century, s-.ig- gested the use of nitrous oxide gas as ani anaesthetic in minor operations, and it' was the custom at some of our medical schxiolsâ€" at the University of Pennsylvania, (or one â€" for students to breathe 'laughinp' gas' as it was then called for diversion. But yetâ€" and yet â€"surgeons went> on, in every country, cutting and burning, and patients went on writhing and .screaming, until on the lOth day of October, in the year 1840, in the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. John C. Warren painless- ly reinovc>d a tumor from a man who had previously been etherized by Dr. William T. G. Morton, and surgical anaesthesia became the priceless herit- age of the civilized world." THE RETIRED BURGLAR. H« Tell* sr Sea« Very rayleatast Bxycr- leacct with Mlrrun. "I have had/' said the retired bur- glar, "eotne very unpleasant experi- ences with Inirrors. I think I have tuld you bov^' I once fired at my reflec- tiun in a mirror, mistaking it for an- other man â€" a mistake that I thought I should never make again. BuU with- in two years after that I struck at a man in a mirror, and smashed tbe glass and smashed my hand, and made myself uncomfortable generally. It may seem strange to you that a man could make such mistakes ; but in a dim light, and where everything is strange to him, and he's all sort of keyed up himself I don't) know as it is after all. Still, after that last experience, I did think it would tie some time before I had any more troutile with mirrors ; but within a year I liad an experience that was a great deal worse than either of them. "When I inme but oif a room in ai house I was in one night, on the second floor, looking down the hallâ€" this was pretty near the front where 1 wasâ€" 1 sawiihe figure of m^-self in a mirror at the other end. It was plaini enough, even int the liglit, but it startled ue a, little aV first, and I tbreiw' up my gun at it. Of ojurse, the figure's hand went up and d<,)A'n, just the same as mine did, and it madu me kind o' laugh to think of it, and 1 could imagine the shadunv laughing, too, at a man who was afraid bf his own s'hadow. "Then I went into the next room, and when I came out of that into the hall again my eyes sought' the mirror again. Jt wasn't very pleasant to sea yourself in th» dark in that way. bull it would have been a mighty sight less pleasant not to. But then I wa.s all right, anil I stood and looked at it a minute snd threw up my arm at it svune as before, just up and down, a sort of unnecessary test, but it made me (eel just a little easier, and up went the armil in tlw mirror with mine, but this time, when mine came down, the arm in tbM mirror stayed up I "'Now. don't: raise your hands,' the m-iu said, covering ma with a gun in his upraised hand, voioe kiml it' drawl- ing but meaning business. You know? You know- wht>n a man means business and this' man did mean it, and I kept my hands down, "'Oh Bill I" he 8«iys, not moving a muscle and not shouting it out, but just kind o' drawling it out like the ot her. "Then a man appeared on beyond the man th:k.t was holding me up, coming t*mard him and me. Ha walked right through the mirror, ixist the other man. and kept coming. It was all plain enough then, in fact I'd guessed at it before, as may be you have, the mirror wasn't a mirror at all. but a doorway, an oiiening midway oi a long hall, and the frauiti w.is the frame of the door- way. Thonv were rooms beyond, just the sanu<( as those on the side where 1 was. anil it was tiie d<X)rs ot those that I luid K«"i'n in the mirror, and not the re(le(!ti(»n of thojie on my side. And it was o*it of those doors that 'Bill' came. The man with the gun had been ready (ot n* tie first time I lookvd, but it mli.st have be«.n> that Bill wasn't tlum, but HiU was ready now, and ha came on iiast the other man careful to keep out! of his range, of course, mak- inig for me ; and ho cjime around behind me and Irok two or tiiree turns of 'a rope around my botly and arms. Then the man. with the spun oame up and be- tween the|n' they tied me up good ami stlroing. And that was a ' matter of some four years." DID HIM GOOD. 'Mister, said the small boy to the druggist, gimme another liottle.o' them patent pilla you sold father day before yesterday. Are tjffoy doing him good? asked the clerk, looking pleased. i I d'no whether they're doin' father good or not. but they're doin' me good; Tbey jis' fit my new slung-shot. QTASIOIOF TMEI GREECE PREPARED TO DBFT THK SIX POWERS. â- Use Ocsise'i «at*m*st-bp«c«e« to Betr to Ihe Mlckly Will er Earsvc-fireee Prslcsta AcMlaM lUe Actloa sf llM Ai^ â- tlraU ol UM;F«relga rieato. A despatch from Athens aays:â€" A! statement just made by .Kiiag George, daring the course of an interview, is probably a forecast of the re{ r <vhich Greece wiU make to the identical netas of the powers insistiog upon tbe with- dra'wal of the Greek fleet and trocps from Crete within tbe six days which conunenced at noon on Monday last, the time when the notes were delivered. His Majesty said: â€" " The Greek nation is unable to bear any longer the strain and excitement caused by constant Cretan revolutions and our finances will not permit us to support the refugees, who now num- ber about 17,000. Nothing will pros- per in Greece until tbe question is de- flneitely settled. The autonomy of Crete is out of the question, becauss the Cretans reject it, and have lost faith In the promises of ths powera. They rather prefer to die in their own defence than to be slaughtered like ths Armenians. " Tbe recall of the Greek troops from Crete would mean the signal for new massacres on a larger scale, owing ta the fierce fanaticism of tbe Mussul- mans who see tliey have the support of the six great powers, since the lat- ter covered tbe Turkish attack on ths Christians and shelled the victorious Cretans, who were fighting only for freedom and the Cross, just at tbe mo- ment when the Turiu were compelled to retire." TO INVADE TURKEY. Premier Delyannis, in an interview, is reported to have reiterated that ths Greek troops would not tie withdrawn from the Island of Crete, and to have expressed the fear that national clam- our would compel the Government t* invade Turkey. Greece, he is quoted as having ad4> ed, had not accepted the schema for the autouomy of Crete which had been proposed by the powers. The Premier asked that a plebiscite of the Cretans be taken, and added that Greece would prefer rather to dis- appear from the map than to withdraw her forces from Crete in ths face of threats. PROTEST BY GREECE. Tbe Greek Government has protest- ed against the silence of admirals is command of foreign fleets In Cretan waters with reference to tbe demand of the Greek commodore. Sachtouria, that he be allowed to communicat* the orders of King George to Col. Vassos, In command of the Greeik army of occupation, and requesting that be be allowed to go to the assistance of besieged Turks at Candaimo. The Gov- ernment bus sent a despatch to its re- presentatives abroad, communicatinir the aba(ve facts to tnen^ and addina that the Greeik CWsul believes that since the admirals amd the Consiils have witnesKed tbe failure of their ef- forts to rai^e tbe siege they desire to place every obstacle in the way of the Greeks' efforts to do so, so that in the event of a massacre they will be able to throw the responsibility upon the shoulders of the Greeks. The despatch continues:- "We ihave instructed our Consui at Canea to inform the Turks who requested his Intervention of the hindrance created by the fioreiguera." In view of the oontinuious arrival of Turkish troops on tbe frontier, it is believed that Greece will call out ths ba.ance of her reserves. TROOPS BKING MASSED. Feverish activity continues througlk- out the whole country. Large quanti- ties of arms, ammutnitioa, provisions,, and military stores are lieing convey- ed by transports to Thesaly. "The ina».sing of tbe trooi>8 on llie frontier is proceeding with the utmost speedy and public feeling is at tbe highest pitch of excitement. Those taking the coolest view no longer conceal their opinion that in tbe event of coercion by Europe the centre of interest wilt be transferred to the Turkish frontier where the most serious events may be expected. Many foreign correspon- dents have already started for Tha- saly. ' THE GREEK FLEET. The Greek fleet Ikis been divided into four squadrons. Tbe eastern squad- ron, comi)0.")ed of tbe ironcl.'vda Psara and Sj[>elzia, the cruised Nanarchos- miaulis, the armoured corvette Basil- eusgeogios, and the despatch vessel Paralos, under the command of Com- niodoiti Apostolis, will cruise in the Siiorades islands. The western squad- ron, composed of (our armoured and (our uniirmoured gunboats, under the command o( Commodore Onbazio, will cruise in the tiulf of Arta. WAR INEVITABLE. It is generally believe<l in London that Europe is on the eve of a wan between Greece and Turkey. The de- cision of Greece to defy the powers is confiniu'd on all sides. The centre of interest hH.s now shifted from Crete to the mainland. SOCIEOTY, Little Chickâ€" Wliat do you let thab uglv little thing come under your wing for? t)ld Hon> who had inadvertently hatched a duck's eggâ€" I can't help it, my dear. We've feot to put up with thi(^ crpiiture bei'ause she belongs to our set, you kno'\v. IN TIIVBE TO COMa Mrs. feUrongâ€" I suppose you bdvs liisard (hat Miss Ricketts and Miss Gazzam are deadly enemies now ? Mrs. pmHllâ€" \>8. I bie<ird ; but I didn't hear who was the man at the bottom of it. A MILLIONAIRE'S CLUB. It is proposed to open a Millionaire's ,Club in London, to which the entrance fee will be 1,001) guineas, and tbe an- nual aulecriptioA £500 per an«t;m. \ -.«>,