Foreign

The fifty-second anniversary of Queen Victoria's coronation was clebrated in England on the 28th uit. by various entertainments and lesti vities. Tuk failure of the National Bank of Ruónos Ayres, with a capital of 540,000,000, was reported on tho 30th uit. The wifo and four young children of James O'Connor, a memoer of the editorial staf! of L'nitcd Ireland, were fatally poisoncd near Dublin on the lst by eatin? pickled mtissols. Umntn a law wlii:h went into effect on tho 2d lifo iniprisonment is now the penalty of reportin; Canadian fortiflcations or armuiiiiMit to other powors. A tnniuMK of ganiblinj? house pjroprietors were on tho '2d sentpnced in St. Petersburg to exile in Siberia for flve years. 1t was said on tho tfd tliat Enpfland would ffivc Francs an islund in tho Carlbbean soa and recognim the French protectorato ovor Madagasoar. A 8YNDICATB of Knglish noblomen was organized in London on tho 3d with a capital of $.", 000. 0(10 to acquire the phosphate fields of the Unitod States and Canada. The announcemcnt on tlie 8d that the law providinf for the forthcoming census in England require tho reliffious belief of ovory individual to be recorded has evokcd strong opposition.