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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. THE CANADIANS ON THE TREATY OF WASHINGTON. WASH-INGTON. IMol of the ((tiinniiic lo Continue tike 1 nMiriTC" lion in Brussels. The French Capitulations to be Investigated, GENERAL NEWS. German Peace Celebration. FOIiiUCiiN. Montreal, 30. Tt is said that the Canadian Executive is going to exercise exer-cise the same privilege as the Queen herself in ratil'yiug tho Treaty ol Washington, without asking the consent con-sent ol' the Parliament. This, we presume, pre-sume, will be final so far as regards the fisheries, but legislation may be required to open the canals. All this is i'or the bast, for two reasons: first, iny solution of international difficulties difficul-ties is bet'er than the arbitration ol war; second, the Dominion will gait), we hope, by all she concedes as well a y all she acquires through the Treaty. There are certainly various points in which, wc might justly have claimed more, t ut on the whole the Treaty will tllord a happy solution to the compil-ition compil-ition of the past difficulties. Toronto, 30. A correspondent ol die Lcad-.r says no explanation will be ijiven why Sir John Toung will sign .he Treaty until after it has been signed iu England. Halifax, 30. Captain Matthewson tnd Dr. JlcKeen, of the Inman steamer City of Durham, went down iheharbir fishing, yesterday, when a jale capsized the boat; both are supposed sup-posed to be drowned. Vienna, 30. The naturalization :reaty between Austria and the Uuited States, signed by Von Beust and Jay, iast September, has been ratified by the Keischcrath and was submitted to he Hungarian Diet on the 25th of June. One year is allowed by the treaty for the exchange of ratification. ratifica-tion. Brussels, 30. A Parliamentary rgan reports that the Germans have seized letters from leading members of he Paris Commune, disclosing a con--piracy against the government of Belgium. Bel-gium. The plot was formed for the insurgents escaping from Paris to proceed pro-ceed to Brussels, where the radical tuovement would be continued and ao insurrection incited. Buildings were o be set on fire and the horrors of Paris repeated. Berne, 30. The federal council has lecided in regard to the extradition of the Communist refugees, that an in vestigation is fJecessary in each case, ind onl those will be delivered to the French authorities who are proved guilty of more than ordinary crime. Versailles, 29. In the Assembly today, to-day, Changarnier defended MacJla-tion's MacJla-tion's capitulation of Sedan. It is announced an-nounced that all capitulations during che war will be investigated by a council coun-cil of war. . Remants of the insut.'ection, consisting con-sisting of a few scattered bands, who rook refuge in the Bote de Viuceunes, surrendered to day. |