•Strict precautions are taken in every part, of the United Kingdom, on account ot tha b'enian agnation. Remarkable vigilence is used at the Houses ot Parliament, and the troops even in London, are confined to their barracks. Au infernal machine, containing one pound ot gunpowder, was found in a London square. Three policemen were shot in Edinburgh, one seriously, in making the arrest of two men lurking about the Custom House. One was arrested, and he committed suicide. He is supposed to be an Irish Americau. Jay G-ould has ordered 15,000 tons of steel rails in England at (JOJdols per ton. The Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland have been couvoked by the Archbishop to consider the new Land Bill. A Dutch Rifle Corps has been formed at Hayue to assist the Boers. Prince Leopold Hohenzollern, re cently chosen heir to the Houmaniau throne, was forcibly abdicated by three men and taken across the Rhine. He subsequently escaped.
An amnesty has been granted to Spanish journalists being prosecuted or already condemned, and political emigrants will be permitted to return. The Prussian nuance is iu audi a favorable condition that the proposed reduction of 1-10,000 marks in tasan tion lor the present year is to be made perpetual. Two hundred and twenty five thou* Band dollars were subscribed for ex* President Grant. Gould, Vanderbilt, M'Kay, and E. D. Morgan gave 25,000 dollars each.
