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Show NIGHT REPORT. FOREIGN. Tlie Seal pliherlca. Halifax, 15. Newfoundland intelligence intelli-gence to the l' ".h says that 14-3 vessels cleared for diilerent ports for the S(&1 !i;herie; six steamers returned with 00,0.0 skins. Tlie Gcuera Coufcrcnc. Geneva, evenintr. 10. The sitting of the tribunal of settlement of the Alabama Alaba-ma claims opened at i'.'iO a.ni., and terminated ter-minated at noon, none of the five arbitrators arbi-trators being present, and Great Britsin and the United States only being represented, repre-sented, the former by Lord Tenterden, Tavlor and Bernard, and the latter bv 'Bancroft, Davis and Gushing. The proceeding' were confined to thedeliv-1 cry of the papers to the secretary of the tribunal, who will transmit them to th arbitrators. j The Catholic Question. I Par, 1-3. Bishop "Wbelan of Wheel- j ing, Va., writes condemning the doc-j trines and action of Pere ilichaud, the i French editor arrested by tho Germans at Vitroy, Le Francois for publishing otlensive letters. Alabama Claims lu Pni-llauical London. 10. Tn the house of com-! inocs in ollci ing tlie note accompanying ! the papers in the Alabama case, Gladstone Glad-stone protested against the jurisdiction of the board of Geneva over claims for indirect damages, and promised to lay the papera before ths house to-morrow. Good-bj e, Alnhmmt. The World's special at London says: Tho no'.c accompanying the .English replication re-plication submitted at Geneva to-day, explicitly declares that .England will, not consent to have indirect claims arbi- J tratcd. Gushing says tlie note is worth-; less, and the arbitration must proceed, j |