No. 91.-Case of Patrick Quinn, an American cit izen, illegally taxed by the native authorities; ¦ his appeal; the judgment of the lower court of Hilo reversed by the Hawaiian cabinet; question of the hospital tax.

No. 55-Case of Patrick Quinn; Mr. Comly's course approved.

No. 95.-Case of Patrick Quinn; further corres. pondence with Hawaiian foreign office transmitted.

No. 100.-Customs statistics of Hawaii; importa tions of rice, and sugar-producing machinery; large importations of sugar machinery from England; low invoice rates thereof, calculated to mislead; gratifying increase of American trade; tables of imports. No. 101-Customs statistics; supplementary remarks of Mr. Comly, to the foregoing dispatch; falling off of imports of rice, and increase of exports thereof.

No. 111.-Case of Patrick Quinn; promise of Hawaiian Government that all future cases analogous to that of Quinn shall be similarly disposed of, upon simple application to minister of finance. No. 58-Case of Patrick Quinn; tax money and costs having been returned, no further action necessary in this case; other similar cases reported as having been submitted to Hawaiian foreign office will have consideration. No. 64-Alleged illegal taxation by the Hawaiian Government of American citizens; gratification at promise of Hawaiian Government that, in future, all such cases shall be disposed of upon simple application to Hawaiian minister of finance.

No. 120. The rice question; reply to the Treas. ury Department's inquiries as to alleged frauds in exportations of rice to the United States; no danger of any foreign rice being exported as Hawaiian rice and as such duty free in the United States; differences between the two classes of rice; proposal of the government to tax imported rice not successful in the Hawaiian legislature; correspondence of Mr. Comly with the Hawaiian foreign minister on the general subject; report of Vice-Consul Hastings, with annexed papers, transmitted.

No. 124.-Danger of foreign-grown rice being shipped to the United States under the name of Hawaiian.

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No. 197.-General Salomon's inauguration as President of the Republic; the ceremonial described; the President's address summarized; appearauce and character of President Solomon. No. 198.-Historical sketch of the Haytian revolutionary movement of June 30, 1879: the intrigues of Bazelais against Canal, and their result in the choice of General Salomon: incidents of the revolution; destruction of life and property; the support of the revolutionary army insured General Solomon's success. No. 204.-Classification of inhabitants in respect of color; only the descendants of Haytians, Africans, and Indians can become citizens; social and political discrimination between the black and the mulatto and mixed classes origin thereof traced to status of latter class during existence of slavery in French colonial times; aristocracy of color created; brief history of the first strug gle for freedom, resulting in the independence of the people; existing prejudices as to color; its effect upon politics; party feeling on this point gradually dying out; majority of popula

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tion black: Haytians quick to thrust aside personal prejudice in moments of peril to the country; history of war against the French, English, and Spaniards; efforts at annexation regarded as the first step toward annihilation of Haytian independence; pride of African origin; the fu ture of the race a common bond of social and political amity; disunion impossible on that account.

No. 205.-Speech of General Salomon on the occasion of an official reception, November 30, 1879; his plans and views touching administrative reforms; proposed reorganization of the Haytian army: the constitution of 1867 revised; the President's prerogatives defined; text of the speech in full.

No. 207.-Relations with other countries; presence of Spanish vessels of war in Haytian waters; supposed presence of Cuban recruiting agents the cause; Santo Dominica; considerable traffic on the frontier.

No. 220.-Anniversary of Haytian independence; entered into with zest by all classes; reception by the President; diplomatic corps attend; brief summary of Hayti's seventy six years of independence; programme of the festivities, civil and religious; President Salomon's address to the people.

No. 247. The national bank question; the introduction of foreign capital essential to the development of the resources of the country; provisions of the ordinance in respect to the same. No. 258. Right to expel foreigners; announcement of this doctrine in the official section of Le Moniteur: is this indicative of a new policy on the part of the Haytian Government? No. 266.-Erection of light-houses in the gulf and harbor of Port-au-Prince.

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No. 277.-Conduct of consular officers in Hayti; complaint of that government that unseemly haste is exercised in the boarding of vessels. No. 279.-Arrest in Port-au-Prince of alleged conspirators; supposed discovery of a revolutionary movement; arrests of twenty persons on suspicion; names and public records of some of the alleged conspirators; tranquillity of the city not disturbed; probable delay in investigating the conspiracy.

No. 111.-Erection of light-houses in the harbor of Port-au-Prince; alleged unjust discrimination in the levying of light-dues; co-operation of the British Government in endeavoring to secure equal treatment to vessels of all nationalities. No. 283.-Report on gold and silver money in Hay. ti; difficulty of obtaining statistics; no banks in Hayti; no mines of precious metals and no coinage; imports and exports of gold small; of silver considerable; American silver the circulating medium; estimated amount, $5,000,000; no laws governing the coin standard; United States silver dollars preferred to Mexican dollars. No. 284.-Amenability of foreign consuls to local jurisdiction; Haytian claim of right to expel turbulent foreigners and to control consuls engaged in business; the precedent of General Salomon's expulsion from Jamaica by the Brit. |

ish authorities in 1865. No. 290.-The political situation; no further arrests of alleged conspirators; vigilance of the government; wisdom of President Salom n's course; increase of the military and pooice forces; public confidence strengthened. No. 118.-Complaint of Haytian Government concerning the unlawful boarding of incoming vessels; answer to the representations made to Mr. Langston; no objection to Haytian rule as to the agents of such vessels being prohibited access

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to them until customs formalities are complied with, but cases may arise requiring immediate presence of consuls; rights under treaties examined; our consuls should have the same treatment in this respect as those of the most favored nation. No. 124.-Pretended right of Haytian Government to expel obnoxious foreigners; revocation of exequatur the extreme to which this government would probably proceed in like cases. No. 297.-Discriminating light-dues; correspond. ence with Haytian foreign office transmitted. No. 301.-Extract from the message of President Salomon; foreign relations of Hayti.

ITALY.

No. 851.-Mormon proselytism in Europe; transmits report from Mr. Bayley, consul at Palermo; failure of proselytism in Sicily.

No. 865.-The political situation; New Year's reception at Rome: the Queen's illness; meeting of Parliament; defeat of the ministry in the Senate; disasters of the year 1879; increase of crime throughout Italy; its cause. No. 867.-New session of Parliament; senatorial vacancies filled: anti-ministerial majority; opening of the session; firm declarations of the King and the cabinet; probability that ministerial measures may be adopted. No. 874.-Political debates; diplomatic appropri ations and foreign relations of Italy; vote of confidence in the ministry, relations between Italy and Austria.

No. 881.-Italy and the Mediterranean countries; jealousies and commercial rivalries; how Northern Africa is affected by the fall of the Napoleonic dynasty; room for agricultural improvement of the region; France and Tunis; Eng. land and Cyrene; the projected trans-Sahara railway; conflicting interests of the powers with respect to Mediterranean and African com

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No. 890.-Election of a new Chamber of Depu ties; large opposition gains reported. No. 897.-Parliamentary proceedings; postpone ment of question of electoral reform until next session; passage of bill for abolition of grist tax: predicted embarrassmeut by the opposition party of the national exchequer by so con siderable a reduction; hope expressed that this measure is the first step toward ameliorating the condition of the poor.

No. 731-Alleged intended monopoly by the Ital ian National Museum of Pompeiian curiosities by destruction of duplicate specimens for which that institution has no room; proposed recep tion of them by the United States National Museum in exchange for a series of speci mens of pueblo pottery and other aboriginal objects."

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