Foreign Facts

The residence oí Adaliua Patti in Wales was entered by burglars the other night. and valuable jewelry belonging to the diva was stolen. Prince Ferdinand has giveu f200,000 to basten the completion of the Bulgaiian railways. A bilí has been introduced into the reichstag to restrict excessive drinking throughout Austria. The Freneu chamber oí deputies, by a vote of 333 to 198, have arranged for the payment of üfe pensions to persons wounded in the revohition of 1S4S. Another war is imminent in Zululaud against the annexation of Natal. The Pope is disappoiúted at the fui! ure of his envoy's mission to Ireland. Austria has passed a bilí providing for a commercial treaty witn Italy until June, 1888. At a meeting called by thé lord mayor of London rosolutions wereadopted advisins the public to do all in its power to assist London charities. Blake, crown solicitor at Cork, has resigned. He declares the crimes act leave lim no discretion of judging whether au accused person is guilty or not. H be ieves the act is directed against the poiitïcal opponents of the government. James Dounelly, a dynamiter oonvicted n Eugland in 18S3, has died of consuinp. tion at Chatbam prison. A banquet was given in Paris the other night in celebration of the anniversary of he dedication of the statue of liberty enightening the world in New York harbor. lames G. Blaine was one of the speakers of the evening. Reported that President Grevy of Trance will shortly resign. It has been discovered that a ferryman on the lower Danube, who has been in the habit of conveying across the river work men returning from Koumauia, who took thls route to avoid producing certificates that they paid taxes in Kouinania, had taken them to a small island. where he murdered and robbed them of their savngs. The judicial inquiry reveáis the astounding fact that hundreds of work men have been dispatched by the fiend and their bodies burned or thrown into he reods along the river banks.