Foreign Facts

Now rumored that Lord Stanley oí Proston will succeed the Marquis of Lome as governor-general ot Canada. John Ryle,the father of thesilk industry in America, died at Maccleifield, Eng., the other day. A fire damp explosión occurred on the 4th inst., in the lead mine at Matloclti in Derbyshire, England. Twenty-flv men wore in the pit at the time of the explosión, and it ii not known how many of these were killled. Five bodies have been recovered thus far. A rich vein of natural gas has beon struck half a mile from Courtright, Ont., and an export says there is more of it escaping from each of the three holes than is produced by all Port Huron's wells. A movement is on foot to utilizo it. Twenty officers in the Kussian armv have been sent to Siberia for complicity in a plot against the government. Editor VVilliam O'Brien refused to don the con v iet 's garb and has been put on a diet of bread and water. The pope's jubilee program has been issued. Stanley and nis party left their camp Seprember 8, and started for the western shore of Albert Nyanza. Stanley oxpeoted to roach Emin Bey Septemher 13. Four seamen on Vietoria's prirate yacht have been iined L15 for smuggling. A band of disguised nioonlightera forced an entranco into a house at Tralee, count}' Kerry, Ireland, tho olhar night and shot Quierke, the owner of the place in the presence of hls iamily. Quiorke was 75 years of age, and it is supposod the moon'.ighters murdered him out of revenge.