Foreign Facts

Marquisof Londonderry, lord lieutenant of Ireland, has been giveu vacant knighthood oL tho garter. The annivjrsary of the late emperor's birthday on the 'ZZd was observed throughout the empire. The town of Mynigyan, in l.'pper Burmah, has beon destroyed by fire. Fifteen thousand people are homeless. Near Severn liridge, nine miles soutb of Gravenhurst. Ont., on the Northern railway, a freight train going south collided with asnow plow coming north and five men were killed and three in.jured. Mr. Parnell's bill for the relief of Irish tenants froni the arrears of rent was defeated in tho house of commons. The defeat of this measure means that landlords wlll proceed with evictions and turmoil and trouble will follow. The dominion government, it is rumor ed, has decided to abandon, at least for the present, the scheme for the construction of a canal on the ('anadian side at Sault Ste. Marie. Emporor William had saved S12,r,CP,000. Queen Victoria has sent a niossag o' condolence to President Carnot of France, on the death of his father. Emperor Froderick is dee; ly concerne 1 at the distress and damage caused by the floods in various parts of (.íermany and has ordered his ministers to take all needful steps for the relief of suffers from those inundations. An Imperial decree has issued eonfer ring a partial decree upon 1 rince Wiiliam of üermany, giving the Crown Princo power to tran act oilicial busiaess in the event of an emergency. Lord Stanley, nowly appointed governor-ïeneral of Canada, will reach Ottawa carly in June. Later advices from the Congo, give no news of Stanley. Thousands of perrons are dylng da I7 in the flooded distrints of Hungary . Political tronliles, in France threaten to cause the formation of a new ministry. The house of Mrs. Peter Bertine, in Bathurst, N. B., was burmd diiring the absence of the tnothor, and two crirls, aged 13 and 11 yeara, were burnod to death. The death of the sultan of anzibar is announced. A house oocupied by Thomas fiall, in Orilla, Ont.. wa? destroyed by fire the other day, and his three children, age I one, three and live, were burned to death. Gen. Boulanger has been placed on the retired list of the French army. Four persons were killel at Bi'bao, Spain, the other day by an explosión of dynamite.