Foreign Facts

The work of mobilizingthe I'rench army commences Aug. 27. The American peace memorial has heen signed by over oO meinbera of tha house of commoa. The house of Lords has adopted the Iriah land bill as received from the house of commons. The London News says tht the government bas decided 5to proclaim the Irish national league. The Chinese robellion, brewing iu King Yu, bas been quelled by the buheading of 100 Tavist priests. Six men were instantly killed the other day by the fall of scaffolding on the new city hospital in Berlin. The Germán government has expelled several Russian families who resided in the envirous ol Berlin city. The bank of London, ünt., has been obliged to close its door. Very litt.e Ums is anticipated by the policy holders. Sir John McDonald says he will prevent the building of that Red Kiver road, at the point of the bayonet, if uecessary. Tha marriage of the Eniperor of China has been postponed for two years owing to the illuess of the youthful monarch. It is very generally conceded that the result of the British goveruiuent"s coerción proclamation will bo the building up of the league. A riot occurred at Kanmare, connty, Kerry, Ireland, the other day. The presence of tbe poiice witli drawn swords acted as a quietes. Letters bearing date of June 20 have been received trom Henry AI. Stanley Thé president of the Erain Bey relief ex peditiou says that by this time Ktauley and Emin Bey have met. l'rince Alexander arrived at Sofia the other night, and received the usual offerings of bread and salt, and an address oi welcome in behalf of the municipal au thorities. 'ihe people greeted him ver euthusiastically. The farm house of Jean Leelerc, near St. I.aureut, on the Island of Orleans, wat destroyed by tire a few days ago, and one of his children, a boy of 13, was buruttd to dealh. His wife and two other children were rescued with grcatdilliculty, and tht mother, on learning her son'sfate, becamt a raving maniac. It is supuosed that the fire was caused by ashes from Leclerc's pipe. The Ilussian government has issued e ukase claiming as Ru-sian territory all the uncultivated lands on the luniks of the Uiver Murghab, and ordering that sucIj lands shall be colonized and cultivated, The Murghab is a ri ver of Afghanistan and Turkistan. It rises in the Huzareth country and flows northwest into Khiva. Be yond Merv it is lost in the sands af ter a course of 250 miles. It runs but a short distance from Herat, the key to the Eng lish possessions in India. The total eclipse of the sun on the ltlth inst. was viewed in Berlin by astronomers from e very part of the habitable world. At Klin, near St. Petersburg, the sky was very cloudy, but an aged professor named MendeleiefC made balloon ascensión alone 80 as to get above the clouds and take an observation. As tuere had beeu a hitch in the IHling of the balloon, thero was considerable doubt feit as to its ability to cárry the aeronaut, but tlie ascensión was successfully mude and the professor descended in t.afety, near Moscow forty miles distant.