Foreign

Choi.eua was raging on tlio 21st wtth frightful virulcnco in Mesopotamia, Asiatic Turkey, and thoro bad been three thousand deaths from the disease. Foun thousaxd nierchants of Lisbon paraded tho streets on the 21st shoutlng "War to England." Tuk house of John Gorloy at St. Johns, N. F., was burncd on tho 21st, and Mr. Gorloy and his threo childron perished in the flames. Gkeat mortality from tho grip was roported on tho Sist among a band of eight hundroil Indiaans on St. Peter's roserve, a few miles out of Winnipeg. Natiian JIai;ii Ai.i:i, D. D., chiof rabbi of the t'nited Ilebrew congregations of the British empire, died on the 21st in LoncTon, ipreil 97 years. Advicks of tho 21st say that a Russian Governmimt schooncr and tha poaching schoonor Rosig Yokahama, which sho had oaptured, wero wrecked off tho coast of Japan, and that tho thirty or forty nien on tho two vessels perished. Tmc powder-mill at Roslyn, .Seotland, explodod on tho 22d, and flve men wero killed and many injured. A. W. MoRBia fc Co., of Montreal, proprietors of tho Dominion cordago works, failcd on the 2id for$59,000. It was the largost fuilure ever rocorded in Canada. Thb Natáonnl line steaner Erin, Captain Tyson, from New York for London, was on the 23d given up as lost. She carried no passenger, but had a crew of sixty or sa vonty men and about fifteon cattlemen. At Vienna on tho 22d the journalist Palkowitz shot the popular actress, Stericher, and Ihen killed himself. Jealousy was the motive. Thebh was a great storm of wind and rain in Southnrn England on the 23d, and onormously high tidos as a consequence, causing Immense damage. It was roported at Zanzíbar on the 24th that Ur. Peters, tho oxplorer, who was said to have boen killed by natives lome time ago, was safe, and that ho had arrived at Subaki. The Spanish Chambor of Deputies on tho 24th passed a bilí granting tho rights of suffrage to all male persons of Spanish blrth of and ovor tho age of 25 yoars. A cutí-ai, of SIOO.000,000 for tho great national banking institution to bo known is the National liank of tho United Statos of Brazil was subscribed within four hours on tho 24th at Uio Janeiro. A m;i:i:i('ANi: swept over many parta of Gormany on the 24th, destroying houses and doing frreat damage. ADVICKS of the 24th say that tho (erman steamer Savonla, valued at 150,000. with a cargo of SliO.000 worth of oom and SIOO.OUO worth of cotton, was abandoned at sea in a sinking condition on January 1 ". All hands wero saved. Tuk hardware and provisión firm of Repetto, PaepagUonl & Co., of Buenos Ayres, failed on the 24th for S10,000,000. A CHUKCH in tho town of Beaufort, Ont., was burned on the 21th, causing a loss of $300, 0U0.