Foreign Fragments

l'riuce Eëward Islanders want the conditlons upon wbleh they entered the dominion (iirr.od i'U7';:' they Intend to Becede. A delegation ha% ..'!■:! sent to England to confer wlth the Impeiial gorernmest relatlve to the matter. ■ 'Aavises receiveu froni the Vatlcan on the 4th iust, state that the Pope is seriously UI. James Hen Iricks, a lawyer ol Toronto, was knoeke.l down and robbedol i;tou by two foot pads ot the Mieldtan Central railway station in St. TIn mus. Out. the otber alght Héctor l.amont returned from Michigan witli a cliuni nanud JouD Fitzicral-l In his failur's bonte, in Lubo, Uut., the other night, i Al night the two Blept in the same room. Next mornlog Fltzgerald was miss ng, together witli a sílver watcU and ?1(IS beluuginjr to Lamont. Kive tiiousand Bghermen in the vioinity oL Caspe, Canada East, are on the veige oí atarvatioii. and the governinent lias been appealed to for lid The 1 nu'litli govemment lias ordered the construction of int1 Hudson Bay railway from VVlanipeg to Fort Churchlll, Loss by the (lood in Belleville, Out., is estiniate.l ál Í1,IO K000. The thermometer lor siviaal dajs sl Ivï.i1., - belowzero. and the Buflerlnï amonje tbc poor classes was beyond descriptton. Lord and Lady Durtcrin recelve 1 a yraud ovatlon at Raugoon on the Bth Intt Two Of the k-a in the recent revolt in ' ( artbargena have been sentenced to i ment tof lOyear . and upx n two others tbo dah penalty has been p David H. Scott, charged wlth forglng $10,003 worth of pai er and putting 11 ineireulatiou : In Winoebago, Vlanitofca, Bometblng over a ■ jearugo wasairest d there on the !?th iust., ! and wasatonei taken back to VVinnipeg. The 1 rench chamber of deputies by a v'öte of 34T to 11B, has rejected the pro[osition of the radicáis to extind aranesty to ]olitic.al olIenJis. llie returns lssued by the London board of tradeshow tbe Importa durln: Janaary dccrease I P,090,i 00 pouods, and the exports !CKi. 000 pounds. compared with the same, month la;t year. An ;itto;n(it was made a few days ago g assasslnate tne president of Eequador.