Foreign

Fire has destroyed tho liulaiian üHtisnai asecmbly building3 at Sofia. They were built ot wood. Austria makes liberal increase oL her war expenditures, to suppress ineurrcctioa in Herzegovina. It is expected that legal procaedings wil be begun against direstor3 of tho suspended Union Generale of Paris. Ia South Algeria the French have by a foreed march captured 10,000 Bheep, 6,000 camels, and killed 90 Arabs. RusBia proposes the annexation of Corea, on the ground of its being a menace to her possessions in the Pacific, and aleo on account el the warlike disposition of the Chinese. Fiading that Uaited Ireland cannot be published in Paris, the Land Leaguers proposa to transfer the office to Liverpool. A new ministry has tieen lormed in Egypt, with Mahmoud Baroadi as premier. Danenhower, of the Jeannett, is ordered home from Irkutsk, and bring the invalids with Mm. The steainship E. B. Ward, Jr., f rom Bay island, when 100 miles north oí Capo Antonio, Qulf of Mexico, ran into and sant the Sweedish bark Hendricks. The second mata and fivo sailors were drowued. The Sultan's interview with the American MiniBter, Gen. Wallace, was to gain information respecting agricultura, and he haa sent to America for specimens oí the most iinproved agricaltural implernents. Gen. IgaatiefT, in recsiviug the Jewish delegates, said he hoped before many months the weatern frontier would bo opened to Jewish people. A Japanese paper etates that the United States Government hau applied to that government for leave to buy provieione for ships' nse free of duty in open porta. The order of the Czar that only wood be burnod in the palace is said to be owing to the f act that the Nihilista smugglod dynamito in with the coal. The Paris Bourso is greatly depressed by torced sales. Many clients havo not settled with the brokers, who are obliged to make large sacrifice. The Qaeen's speech at tho opening of Parliament vdll indícate a better condition of Irish aff airs. France is purchasing a large number of repeating rifles from the Ausirian small-arms manufactory. The steamship Peruvian has just arrived in New ïork from Liverpool with a caso of sinallpox on board. (ïermany will not adopt an international bimatallic standard without the con'iurrence of England.