Foreign

The resignation of Nubar Paslia, Egyptian premier, has been accepted. The communication for which the Grand Duke Nicholaa of Russia has been exiled to Orenljurg was a pamphlet in favor of the speedy eonstruction oC the Orenburg and Tashkend Railway, in order to force England to abandon her resistance to the Russian Eastern policy. A report from Mandaly asserts that the liing of Burmah has murdered all the royal princes and their entire families, and replaced the new ministers with those forinerly in office, thus restoring a despotic government. A number of young citizens of Zurich have started for Georgia, where it is proposed to establish a Swiss colony under the auspices of the workmen's society. Others will follow. The cotton operatives are striking against a 10 per cent. reduction, while the bheffield scissors manufactnrers are reducing wages from 5 to 15 per cent. At a meeting of the Mersey Docks and Harbor board, it was decided to spend L35,000 in tbe erecting of slaughter sheds and lairage necessary to the continuance of the American cattle trade. The embarkation of troops from England to South África ia delayed by the threatened labor strikes at home. Dispatches from Capetown say that unless attacked, the British forees will confine their operations to the maintenance of a statu quo, and the retention of the strategical position on the border until strongly reinforced. Two hundred volunteers from Port Klizabeth will relieve the Eightyeighth Regiment at King Williamstown, so as to permit the latter to go to the front. Gen. Melikoft telegraphs that not a single case of epidemie illness exists throurhout his jurisdiction. The military cordons isolating different viüages have been abolished. The general cordon only is retained. The Official Gazette confirma Gen. Melikoff' s favorable report, and says that it is believed that after ten days the northern portion of Astrackhan may be saf ely declared relieved from quarantine, as it will the have been free from sickness for 42 days. Kussian papers, however, continue to report epidémica, especially diphtheria. Further intelligence from Mandalay staten that great consternation prevails in consej quence of the royal murders. The victims numbered 8G. The details of the massacre reported are horrible. British jnterference is hoped for by the people to prevent more bloodshed. The Italian government has prohibited the importation of American swine, or any preparation of their flesh, as a precaution against trichiniasis. A dispatch from Calcutta says: A slight rain in Oude and the northwest provinces has improved the prospecta somewhat. The Punjaub needs much more ram. The condition of the spring erop there is very critical. A dispatch from Berlin says that the Roumanian evacuation of Arablabia is due to the faot that Prince Gortschakoff used violently threatening language on the subject. Germany is now prepared to support Russia's claims concerning the boundry iñ dispute. Bismarck's speech in the Reichstag, in a debate on the Austro-German treaty of coinmerce, contains the following relative to his commercial policy: "It is my duty to stick to my convictions. That is how I mean to act, and if 1 do not obtain immediatï success 1 shall try again. That is all." Severe shocks of earthquake were feit at Rome Tuesday, and also at Sienna. At the latter place two churches were overthrown and two priests and several villagers killed. Canada is getttng one feature of a great naüon, and that is a great debt. She owcs about $150,000,000. Her debt is probably largor in proportiou to her means, than that of the United States and a good deal of it has been incurred in public works vhich will never yield an income, like the Inter-Colonial railway. which was built for political reasons, and not beeause it was needed or will ver pa. Mtan while Canada's progresa is retarded by the tenure of land mi largeblocks in some sections, and by Un' continua) diain of its lest brais and muscleto the United States.