Foreign

OwiNii to a tinaneial crisis Uruguay on the sth suspended specie pajrnient for six months. Tuk Groenland soal and whalo fishory was on tho Uth said to bo almost a total failure, the ice havin; interfured with tho operations of the vossols engagod in that indusiry. Dn. Pktkus, tho Germán erp-lorer, reached the eoast from the interior of África on the SHh. Ho was well. Ovkb 700 persons wero killed by a cyclone in Araliia on tho 9t.h, and iramense damasco was done to houses and plantations. The Argentino republic on th 9th issued $100, ooi). (i(io in paper money to ease the tlnanciul strain. Sn.VKit monoy to the amount of $10,894,440 was coined by the Kritish mint last yoar. News was rc.celyed on the lOth tha-t Fort de l'ranee, a town of 15.008 inhabitants on the west eoast of Martinique, Freiieli West Indies, had been almost totall y dostroyod by Ilro und that many lives were lost. Ir was assertod on the lOth that General Botilaiijfor had asked the Governmont to pardon him and pormit him to return to France. DisrATiniis of the lOth say that a number of Arinonian pasants at Alakiles who failod to pay thir taxes wero burned alíve by TurkisU Zaptiohs.. AnvKK.s of Uní lOth say tha-t a fire at Kirin, Japan, dcstrovctl ono-tifth of the city and uausod a lrtss of $:;,O0O.0DO. Ten livcs wero lost, The cable uonnocting' lietnxuda with Canada and rost of tho world was completod on tho lOth. Fi.amks on the llth dostroyed 250 houses at Maidan, Russia, and 329 dwellings at Wassilkorvo. At each place seven porsons .lost their lives. A FEitHY landing at Dartmouth, N. S., collapsed on the lltli whou occupied by a crowd of people, many of whom were thrown into th water, and many lives were lost. Advicks of tho llth siy that th cholera epidumv in Spain was steadily docreasing.