Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A secret revolutionary society, with a membership of 6,000, is said to have been discovered in the North of England, the members being well supplied with fire-arms. O’Kelly, M. P., was followed in Paris by a detective, but he escaped arrest by seizing and shaking the detective violently. Carey, the informer, has been expelled from the Dublin Town Council, of which he was'a member. The Society for the Suppression of Blasphemous Literature, in England, is desirous of getting up cases against Huxley, Tyndall, Herbert Spencer and others for their atheistical writings. The False Prophet of the Soudan has been defeated by Abdel Kadir Pasha, losing 2,000 men. At a Legitimist meeting of 5,000 persons at Lille, France, violent speeches attacking the republic were delivered. The editor, the proprietor and the printer of the Free-Thinker, ot London, have been convicted of blasphemous libel, and were sentenced to twelve, nine, and three months’ imprisonment, respectively. Gen. Blumenthal, commander of the Fourth Army Corps, has been appointed German War Minister. In the French Chamber of Deputies, a resolution indorsing the Ministry for refusing to consider the proposal for revision of the constitution was adopted, 307 to 182. The appointment of Gen. Blumenthal as German War Minister was revoked and Gen. Yon Schellendorff was given the position. Seven hundred persons are in want of food at Swineford, County Mayo, Ireland. More than thirty persons are being treated in the poor-house for famine fever. In defense of Mr. Parnell against the charges of Mr. Forster, it is stated that immediately after the Phoenix Park assassinations the former drew up an address announcing his retirement from public Ufa and was only prevailed upon to withhold it by the most earnest request of his party associates. Wells & Co., proprietors of the iron works at London have failed for *750,000. Biggar, the Irish M. P., must pay Miss Ryland £4OO for breach of promise The Russian police are showing increased vigilance as the time for the coronation approaches, and many arrests are being made of suspicious characters. Frank Byrne has shown by a telegram sent by him from London, dated May 6, that he was in that city when the Phoenix Park murders were committed.