Foreign

Tem TirorsANi) boot-makers were on the 23d locked out in the labor district at BHstol, Eng. DtSPATCHEB of tho 23d frora St. Paul de Loando roport that numerous photographs of the eclipse of tho sun wero obtainod by the American expedition during the period of totality on the 22d. Advices of the 23d from the Congo report very satisfactory progress in the cquipmont of the now stations that aro to be tho basis of a systematic opposition to tho slave trade. Tiie influenza opidemic had on tho 23d spread over every part of Germany. Nei.i.y Bly arrived at Hong Kong, China, on tho 23d, on her trip around the world. She expected to completo the journoy in a total of soventy-fivo days. Influenza was making groat ravages at Brussels and Vienna on tho 24th. Ciiaiu.es MacKay, LL. D., tho wellknown author and journalist, died in London on tho 2ith, aged seventy-flvo ■ years. A block of buildings in London was burned on the 25th, causing a loss of 750,000. Thomas A. Emsox's Christmasgifton tho25th toArchduchessElizabeth.daughter of tho lato Archduke Rudolph oí Austria, was a phonojjraphic dolí which talks and recites verses. Influenza in Paris was increasing in violence on the 26th, and of the total number of persons attackod six por cont. died. The town of Aci Realo, in Siclly, was shaken by an earthquako on the 26th, and sevoral houses collapsod and many persons woro buriod in the ruins. At Vancouver, B. C, a party of youn men in a sloigh woro struck by a falling treo on tho 27th, and four of thcm and the two horses wore killed. It was reported on the 27th that 580 deaths from influenza had occurred in Paris within twenty-four hours.