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Show TELEGRAPHIC Forcicn FlHShes- Aikics, 27. Dcl;jre-orces, the Greek statesman and niiDiter ot tinance, is dead. BeriiD, 27. Negotiations are proceeding pro-ceeding lor commercial treaty ffitb Japan en tae model of the Japanese treaty with t:;e foiled Stales. isewcMiieon-Tyne, 27. Betting tc-day was 70 to 40 and 100 to SO in iavor of Hnlau in 1i:b rowing race wito E.liott. Loodorj, 27. Competiuons in the match for the walking championship of the world have been reduced io Kowell, Ennie, Brown and Harding of Blackwall. They will start on the 16th of Jane. The li?t will be cpeu uniil Friday to give Westoa an opportunity op-portunity to enter. A correspond ct rt Vienna reporttj i that Italy has 6iiggesttd a compromise on the Greek question making the Salambria and Ana rivers the frontier and leaving Janina to the Turks. It ia expected the Greeks will not accede to this proposition. Loudon, S. The Bank of Holland has reduced the rate of discount to three per cent. The terms of the Indo Afghanistan treaty provide tor the payment of a subsidy to the ameer of oO,000 annually. John and Robert Fentoo, cotton : spinners, Rochdale, kave failed. Liabilities, 50.000. Matthew Deckie, mill owner, Stockport, baa failed. Liabilities, $H5,000. Parliament adjourned lor the Whitsuntide Whit-suntide holidays until tho 9:n ot June. Rome, 2S. Alexandria ia threatened threat-ened with floods. The Alexandria railway and other lined are interrupted. inter-rupted. Philiipoppolis, 2S Governor Aleko Pasha made his ofliciai entry yesterday yester-day ioto that city. Ha will wear the fez at aU cfficial ceremonies, by the suitan'a express wish, Tho World saya the Suez Canal, which cost only half of tho lowest estimate esti-mate fcr a Darien Caual, would never have been constructed at all had not Egypt been a rich country absolutely controlled by an irresponsible irresponsi-ble despot. It was not the capitalists of Europe, it wad the Khedive who carried De Leusepe successfully through his magnificent underttikiDg. There is no khedive in Central America, and even if President Barries Bar-ries of Gtiuteiaala, or President Guardia, of Costa R'ca, could succeed in consolidating the wholo region from Soccuusco to the Atrato uder a single government its tyrannical as that of Carrcra, the resources of the whole region would supply but an insignificant in-significant factor in euch an enterprise. enter-prise. If a great ship caual is ever made to connect the Caribbean with the Pacifi.', the capital for making it must come cither from Europe or from tho United Stales, except in tho form of a great government eubeidy. European capitalists wiil hardly in veat a couple of hundred milliona of dollars in a great American ship canal until the political aspects at the enterprioo have been thoroughly cleared up, and those who arc moat familiar with the politics of Central and of Spanish America w'dl be eloweet to commit themselves to any prophecies on that subject. Were it once distinctly understood that the route through Lake Nicargua, for example, was really about to be taken up as a practical matter by a powtr-ful powtr-ful European company, r.bio to du what poor Felix Belly wia only able to prctent to do, wo should see the Central American sub continent thrown into an uproar much moro serious thou that which is now convulsing the republics of the west coasd of South America. The Times s the only other journal that discusses the question of the canal, and its article ia merely a matter of routes, showing that the cheapest and moet practicable possible possi-ble route ia by the San Juan River, and that could not be constructed for less than $00,000,000. |