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Show NIGHT REPORT. FOREIGN. Nen i from London. London, 17. The subscriptions lo tho Chicago relief fund last night amounted to 'j:;,tAU. At a meeting a'. Bradford, 2,0U0 were received; at Dublin 1,200 wuro received; at Wolverhampton and ; Ghii-Row, 1,0(10. Tho Kig-ht lion. Frederick Temple Blackwnod, Lord Dutferoin, Chancellor of tho Duchy of Lancaster and paymaster pay-master general has been created an earl. A dispatch from ilaryhill, three miles from Glasgow, announces tho I wrecking of n passenger train. Two ! persons were instantly killed and fifteen ' wounded. 1 Advices from Odessa state that eight'' hundred buildings in tho town of ling-rasto, ling-rasto, were burned by incendiary llres, behoved to be tho work of fanatical op-posera op-posera of the .Tows. A great proportion propor-tion of the inhabitant-; of tho town are of Jewish faith. Details received hore of tho recent fitorraa and floods in China represont the Iosb of lifo nnd property very great; at loast three .tliousand jtcrsona perished. per-ished. Constantinople advices my tho chulera has again made its appearanro in that city and suburb. In two dayi sixty persons diod from the epidemic, ten of whom were English. llrltnln'i aid for Chicago. London, 17. Thp'subsr-riplion for the city of Chicago is ("till llio till-nhsorhing topic here. The newspapers eontinuo thoir appeals tn tho peole, and it do-serves do-serves to ho said that tho people respond gloriously. Tho mayor publishes a statement this morning, acknowledging tho receipt oi a multitude of donations not included in tho total reportod. lie appends to the statement an oihurtation ! to continuo the subscriptions until the. amount devoted to this cau-e he -worthy of tho emergency which calls on the nut of tho great city of London. This morning tho subscriptions in Liverpool bad reached 10,000, in Leedi -1,000, in Cork -1.000, and in Dublin 1 0,000. Birmingham has alrendy forwarded for-warded its llrst installment of X 20, 000, and further contributions are being made. At a meeting held iit Shellielu to-day, tho mayor' presiding, 20,000 was coHoctod in a fow minutiA Liverpool, 17. The subscriptions for tho Chicago relief fund here-" to-day loach 12,000., A Severe Gale. Halifax, 17. Groat damage lias heon done to tho wharves and ottier property by the galo of Thursday night. Thero was grout destruction of proporty throughout the province. The loss of lifo was small. Tho railway to Bedford was badly damaged, and no trains aro running. Went India Cable. Kingston, Jam,, 17. Tho tolegraph cable between Barbadoes and Domar-rara Domar-rara has been laid, and tho Dacrc is now coaling at this port preparatory to another expedition to picK up llio lost cable which was to connect Jamaica with Aspinwall. |