Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1877 — GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The French legislative body has voted the budget, and the Government has introduced a measure abolishing the oppressive restrictions placed upon the press. The Chamber has adjourned to meet Jan. 8. A London dispatch announces that Parliament will meet Jan. 17, threo weeks in advance of the usual time, owing to the condition of affairs in Turkey. Austria's policy of neutrality has been reaffirmed by Count Audrassy in a speeoh to tho Budget Committee, iu which ho stated that the Government would prevent the extension by Servia of operations iu the direction of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Gen. Grant lias been visiting Herculaneum and Pompeii. Michael Davitt, a Fenian sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude, has been released from Dartmoor (England) on a ticket of leave, after serving half the torm of his sentence. MacMahon has once more succumbed to the inevitable. He has ordered that all prosecutions against, editors, publishers, and newsboys, for alleged infractions of the press laws since May 16, bo dismissed.