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Foreign News.
LONDON, Dec, 5-The Allan Line sueam-
ship Peruvian, from Montreal, has been sunk
by collision in the River Mersey.
The Bishop of Winchester is spoken of as
The successor to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury.
Indictments have been found against three
men for the murder of Detective Cox and the
attempt on Judge Lawson's life.
The Seine in Paris has flooded many cell
lars and threatens damage to some of the
bridges.
A boastful French editor says that Frances
navy could ruin every American port
The French cruiser Flore has been ordered
to Madagascar.
The Gear has assumed the title of Lord of
Turkestan.
Arab Pasha desires to be exiled either to
Damascus or London, and he hopes after a
while that England will permit him to return
home.
LONDON, Dec Elm the Spanish Cortes,
yesterday, Marshal Serrano declared himself
a partisan of the constitution of 1869, and
explained the program of his party.
M. Louis Blanc, the French statesman,
and Anthony Trollope, the celebrated Eng
lish author, are dead.
England offered France the presidency of
the Egyptian Debt Commission, but it is re-
ported that the offer was declined.
The Alhambra Theatre, London, was
, burned last night, with all its contents. No
lives were lost.
Madame Albani has made an engagement
to sing in the United States and Canada be-
fore Christmas.
The Rhine and other rivers in Germany
were rising again yesterday morning. The
loss in the overfowed districts will amount
to many millions of marks.
A collier has foundered off Berwick, Eng
land, and ten lives were lost.
The hostile Caffres of South Africa have
been driven into Chief Mapoch's caves, in
one of which fifty were recently killed by an
explosion of dynamite.
A sensational report says England will OBJ
ject to France extending protectorate over
Madagascar.
! A dispatch from Berlin to the Morning
Post says: "a young lady, lately banished
to Siberia for completely in the Nihilist con-
sniracv. has killed the Governor of the Trans
baikal territory"
LONDON, Dec. 7.--Toulba Pasha, Mahmoud
Sami. Abdelai Pasha and Ali Fehmy pleaded
guilty to rebellion at Cairo, yesterday, and
were sentenced to death. The Khedive at
once committed their sentences to exile
for life.
The funeral of NJ Louis Blanc will be al
the expense of the State.
A heavy snow storm prevailed throughout
Great Britain yesterday, interrupting rail
road travel.
In the Spanish Senate yesterday, the oppo
sition were defeated on party issue by
vote of 116 to 81
The losses by the burning of the Alhambr'
Theatre and other buildings in London, foo
up Gl50,0o0.
The Seine continues to rise. The govern
ment has asked the French Chambers 10
ZOO. 600 francs for the flood sufferers.
The French Chamber of Deputies yester
= day voted against increasing the tax on per
S sonal property.
y A reprieve is asked for Myles Joyce, O
!, the ground of mistaken identity, by the othe
v prisoners awaiting execution for the massa
Q ere of the Joyce family.
LONDON Dec. 10.-The poorer members {
i. the foreign colony in Alexandria have al
: pealed for the payment of the indemnity IL
losses during the bombardment of that cit
Arabs military engineer and his under SCI
rotary of war have been exiled.
General Wood will go to Egypt Decemb
: 16 to take charge of the Khedive's ne
= army.
u The jury trying Patrick Higgins for Il
n murder of the Huddys in Ireland has di
y agreed. A reward of 81, 600 has been Offer
is for information of the murderer of Jol
It Lenmare, of Midtown, Ireland.
5. Debate was continued in the Spanish Sc
i ate on Saturday on the modification of &
constitution.
If 1t is said that the st, Petersburg poll
a have been ordered to expel all jews from
t. city who have no official permission to resi-
IN there.
to The late Anthony Trollope was buried
I'd Saturday.
De Postmaster-G General of England, Mr.. Fla
n cett, is feebler.
O. The rising Tiber threatens to inva
,ir Rome.
T. Lay torpedoes will be used in the d.
danelles and Bosphorus,