Foreign News

The vicinity of Tashkend, Asiatic Russia, was visited by a destructivo earthquake recently. The villages of Suluk and Belvoodsk were" eompletely rulned. ín the latter place a church fllled witb worsbippers was shaken to pieces and 54 of the worshippers killed and iiearly a hundred injured. CHOLERA SPHEADIXG. Cholera is gainiag at Madrid alarminglv. In a cemetery outside the town 7Ü bodies lately lay ur.burled, the pólice cordon around the infected houses preyenting the people iroiu obtaiuing buriat licenses. The iower classes manifest the greatest hostility to the official doctors and ambulance bearers. The epidemie il ipreading to all Üie northern provinces. A KEVENOEFl'L SOLDIER. A native soldier at Bombay was reported for misconduct. In revenge he shot and killed two sergeants belonging to a native regiment. He then barricaded nimself within nis quarters and shot his wife dead. After keeping up fov a time an eiïective fire against those who attempt 1 to asail his retreat, lie lay down beside his wife's corpse and with his last ballet ended his own life. FIGHTIXQ FOR FREEDOM. Sixty crimináis who had been genteneed to exüe in Siberia recently, while en route, rose against their guards, and, although unarmed, began a desperate flgut tor liberty. The battle lasted a long time and the soldiers were absolutely unable to conquer their manacled assailants. Tnenty oí tliem were 8hot dead, and of the other forty thirty succeeded in making good their escape. Two of the soldiers were wounded during the flght. EVACUATIOX OF EGYPT. The Sultan of Turkey, in the negotiations regarding the sending of an expedition to the Soudan, has raised the question of an early evacuation of Egypt by tne Britiah troops, offering to substituto Turklsh troops in their place. Mr. White, the British representative, at Constantinople, bas been instructed to decline to discuss the question of British evacuation of Egypt. Advices from Cairo state that the prospects of the British leaving the country are more remóte than ever. The positions on the staifs of the garrisons, which have hitherto been held temporarily, have been converted into permanent positlóns. Gen. MaePherson succeeds Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts as commander-in-chief of the army of the Madras presidency, and the Duke of Connaught will succeed Lleut-Gen. Hardinge, commanderin-chief in the Bombay presidehcy. SAME AS AMEKICANS. Extensive frauds have been discovered in the accounts of the Munster bank of Dublin and Cork. Mr. Farquharson, one of the joint managers of the Dublin bracch, is missing wlth $350,000 of the bank'a fuuds. The solicitor of the bank has written to the papers that he is authorized to offer a liberal roward for the arrest of Farquharson. The people have also issued a notice offering a reward, with description of the missing man. The discovery of frauds in the accounts of the Munster bank has created an immense sensatioa, and has intensifled the fear that its resumption of business is impossible. Robert Farquharson, the absconding joint manager of the late Munster bank, had been 12 years in the service of that instltution. He did not live extravagantly, but speculated. He was so hlghly thought of that since the suspension of the baak he has been recommended as official liquidator. The shareholders are furious at his escape. The flrst intimatión of his guilt was f ound by the bank examiners while at work. They were puüzled at a half-erasetl pencil entry and asked him to explain it. He did eo in a plausible way put íoon ai ter excusedh imself and lelt .the bank. He took a cab for his house in Leeson park, got 6üme articles of clothing and hurriedly drove away. Farquharson may possihly have caught a steamer for New York. It is recaUed that S30.000 was stolen from the bank two years a?o. A clerk was accused of the theft, but his guilt was not proved. Farquharson was the only other man wao had access to the safe coutaining the money and it is now believed he took the amount and tried to couvict an innocent man of the theft. Admlrere of the G. O. M. will be glad to hear that e is in o immcdiate dangex of coming to want. It is said that be has an annuil Income of $35,000 from his Hawarden estáte and is the patrón of four church living!, one Oí wjjicu, wortb $13,000, is beid by his son.