Foreign Fragments

The tunnel betwcen Liverpool and ! uead under the Mersy rtver was formally opened(i) by the Prlnce of Wales on the 21st Inst An independent party may be toruiuü in the j Brltish House of Coraiüous t watch the inter ests oí the uiinority in Ireland. A number of Austrian merchante doing business witb firms in Roumauia will remove to Germany if the treaty witb. Hungary is not soon arranged. An old eouple named Bates were burned to death near St. Catbarlnes, Ont, Sundáy Jan. K4. It is supposed to be a case ol murder and ; arson. The (úeen street Wesleyan ehurch was burned sunday tnomin?, Jan. 24, at' Kingston, Ont. Loss, 325,000; insurance, $10,0U0. The Congo state has requested Henrv M. Stanley to renew hls engagement with" the ! government of that country. The Congo has contracted witli the Lisbon Enpreza Nationale for monthly mail steamers between Portugal and the Congo. The arrangement is to last five years. If. de Lesseps will go to tae Sanara in ipril to consider the project of ac inland sea in : África. There are grave tears of further avñamlte jutrages owing to the unsatisfactory of the ueen's speech on the Irish quesüon. The Greelan army l being put In readiness lor active work. Iinecefsary Macednia and ! A ibauia will be burued to cut olt the Turks. It Is stated on the authnr.ti ui the Hon. I. A. Cbapleau, secretary of state oí Canttáa. that an amnestv wlli be extended to all tlie political prisoners now undergoing sentence in t .e northwest. This does not, tiowever, In ■■ ude the Iodians.