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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. General Grant has left Alexandria for Cairo. The Marquis of Aylesbury is dead; age 74 years. The king of Italy is seriously lil with miasmatic fever. A man-of-war has been dispatched from Jamaica to watch British interests inter-ests in Hayti. The prospect of an amicable settlement settle-ment ol the dispute between Germany and Nicaragua has improved. The British government bus embargoed em-bargoed 2,000 cast's of cartridges on board a steamer at Cardiff destined for Ooustantinople. At Halifax on Saturday night, a oab broke through the ice and Flora McDonald, Ida Boutilier aud John Wilson were drowned. General Carona, Mexican minister at Madrid, has signed a treaty by which Ihe naturalization of Spanieb subjects as Moxican citizens Bince 1875, is declared void, A Cubau charged with having willfully will-fully set fire to the International hotel, Fort au Prince, has been tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Trouble with Spain is expected if the sentence is carried into execution. |