Foreign Facts

The Sultan of Turkey is anxious to resume negotiations with England regarding Egypt. ."iLondon hasgivenL2,fl00 to Germán flood sufferers. Peven men were killed by a powder explo,ion in St. Petersburg the other day. For the week ending April 12, 2,6()0 emi grante left Queonstown for the United States. Jame1; Macey of Chatham, Ont., has been sent to priion for 14 years for an at tempt to blow up the house oí Ucease inspector Israel Evans of that city. I'iBperor Krederiok is worso, and grave fearí are entertained that his reeovery is inipossibV. Kenor Villa, a Spanish pastor, has been sentenced to 28 months' imprisonment for pabliahlng a pamph'et condemuing Roman Cathalic dojmas. Kmperor Frederielt wantcd to extend amnesty to all socialists and to recall those who had been banisherl, but Prince Bismarckdissuaded him from doing so. The openinj; of the BruasoU exhibition has been postponed from May "to May 19. The rumor that the emperor o Brazll is about to abdícate is denied. Editor O'Brien is ag'iin under arrest for speaking at a proelaimed meeling. Matthew Arnold, the poet, scholar and critie, died suddenly in Liverpool on the Itith inst., of heart disease. Havr Wroblewski. professor of physics at the Cracow university and a member of the Paris and Vionna academies, is dead. The British steamer Bela, at London from Antwerp, had her Ijows stove and wus afterwards seriously darnaged in a collision off Deal in a fog witli the steamer Vena, from Bilboa for Rotterdam. The Vena sanie and sixteen of the persons on board of her lo.st their lives. Queen Victoria -is said to bo opposed to the Battenberg match.