Foreign

Snt Petf.i! Coatks, of tho well-known thread-making firm of J. & P. Coates, diod in London on the lOth. Bkowx & WivoRovE, melters and refinors and dealers in bullion at London, failed on tlie lOth, vvith Habilities of L300,000. It was roportod on tho lltli that the ex-Empress Charlotte, widow of the unfortunatO Maximilian. had noarly recovered from the insanity which had afflictod her since her misforlunes with her royal husband in Mexico. Five ïiiousani) minors of Xottingham, Eng., struck on the 12th for more wages. Thi: National Bank and t'.:ï ï!ank oí Brazil, at Rio Janeiro, bogan on tho 12th to issuo papor money, redeemable in gold. Is a wreek on tho 13th noar Perabroke, Ont., caused by spreading rails, two persons receivod fatal injuries and many wero badly hurt. 1'aris advices of the 12th state that in thecampaign against King Dahomey, whlch had just ended, 1,000 Uahomians, including one Teníale (íeneral, were killed. It was ascertained on tho 12th that eighty-eight minors lost their lives by the recent explosión at the Morsa collieryin (ilanmorganshire, Wales. Tuk international chess tourney which was conducted by correspondence botwecn the United States and Canada, sixty playera on a side, was concludod at Ottawa on the 12th, tho Americans winning by thirteen points. Tin-: influenza was raging with great violenco on tho 13th throughout tho State of Hidalgo, in Mexico. lx the City of Mexico on the 13th tho polico arres tod four Mexicans on a charge of having circulated counterfeit United States 85 gold picces in Mexico. Advicks of the loth from l'eru say that in political riots in tho province of Ayacucho over 100 persons wero killed. Ai.r, the members of the French Cabinet resigned on the Hth. WlGQIsa, the ('anadian weather prophet, predicted on the 14th that a violent storm would soon be feit all over the world and would buret over the continent of America lx-tween the 'ilst and 22d insts. FLOOD8 at lirisbane, Australia, had on the 1-Hh oaused a loss of 81,500,000.