Foreign

An engagement haa taken place offlqniqne, Peru, between the Chilian wouden vessels Esmerelda of Cavadonga and the Peruvian armor-plated frigate Independencia. Ml three vessels rank. The Esmerelda was originally a Spanish gunboat. The Independencia was the most important vensel in the Peruvian navy. Her nrnuunent conniatcd entirely f Armstrong guns, namely, 12 70-pounders and two pivot guns. The latter wero 100-pounders. A cable dispatch of May 29 eays: Mount jEtna is in full eruption. Three pew crátera have appeared near the town of Randazzo, at the northwest foot of the mountain. Btreams of lava are tiowing down the western slope. Several villages are threatened with destruction, and there is great alarm amoiig the inhabitan ts. The Privy Oouncil publishes an announcement that, after June 8d, if certain specified precautiona are observed, cattle from the United States may be transhipped to any part of the Thames, or any London doek, for conveyance to Uepford market, instead of only the Victoria and Millwall docks, as under present regulations. In the raco for the Epsom gold cup oa Friday Primrose and Parole ultimately led uatil fairly in line for home, when Primrose was beaten and Parole getting the best of Alchem int, wou oleverly by half a lengtb, Primrose coming in a bad third. The value of the stakes ia $4,200. The Sportsman saya that with Parole's victory, ioreign home may bid farewell to any allowance in weight for age caps. A Home dispatch Haya that Mouut Etna is ejecting enormous volumes of ashes The destruction of property is immense. The commune of Majo has been obliteratcd and Cascello is threatened. Many large and valuable estates have been destroyed. The four mam craters continue to pour forth streams of lava, while many smaller onea have become inactive. The atream of lava which haa interrupted the road at Passa Pescaro. is half a milo wide and one hundred feet deep. Baron Lionel Nathan De Rochschild, chief partner in the firm of Kothschild & Co., ia dead. A Berlin diapatch flays that a barricade was discovered on the night of the 30th uit., near the Peterhof Palace, t. Petersburg, across the road which the Czarowitch and wif e were about to trarel. Bismarck wishes to mibstitute quadrennial or sextennial for triennial parliamenta, but the change ia not likely to be proposed at the present aession.