Foreign

The car shcd of the Canadian Paciflo Railway Company t Ottawa, Ont., with six cars, was dostroyed by ttroon tho 3d. Loss, SI 00. 000. It was announced on the 3d that Ilonry M. Stanley, tlio explorer, would rcmain at Cairo, Egypt, until March. The trial of the snit for libel brought by Mr. Parnell against the London Times was compromised on the 3d, the Times paytng Mr. Parnell $35,000 damages. AdVICES of tlm 4th from China say that a waterspout near Nanking caused tho loss of ono hundred lives. Dispatches of the 4th say that a violent earthquake destroyed several liouses at Nagano, Japan. Advicks of the 4th say that 8170,000 in specie and honda wore stolen from the steamer La Plata on her recent voyage from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp. The owners of docks, wharves and warehouses in Londonon the 4th formed a unión to comba t the tyranny of the laborers' unions. CathebhTK HeNZY, aged 106 years, diod in Kingston, Ont., on the öth of influenza. Xhbbe hnndred minera were buriel by an explosión in a colliery at Monmouthshire, Eng., on the 6th, and 150 of them lost their lives. GbneraÍ Salamanca, Captain-Qaneral of Cuba, died at Havana on tha evening of the fith. Minister of Wir Chinchilla was on the Tth appointed bis successor. Fübtüeb advicos of the 7th say that 170 bodies had been taken from tho coal mino in Monmouthshire, Eng., in which an explosión oceurred recently, and it was feared that there were twonty more dead still in the pit. Owi.vo to tho protests of Secretary Rusk the Mexioan Government on the 7th announoed thatit would discontinue the obnoxious quarantine regulations in regard to American hogs.