Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Papah Secretary of State demands an explanation of Cardinal McCloskey for receiving Alexander Sullivan, President of the Irish National League. Judge Richard Deasy, of the Irish Court of Appeals, and Louis Viardot, the French author, are dead. Advices from the Congo country are to the effect that a French gunboat visited the station of the International Association, hauled down the association banner and hoisted the French flag. It is believed that the effect of this action will be an armed conflict between Henry M Stanley, the explorer, and De Brazza, who represents France in Central Africa A dispatch from Tabreez, Persia/rarports that that city has been visited by an earthquake, which destroyed i a great many houses and caused the death of a large number of persona Two hundred persons who have.reason to believe Vs included in the category of aft 2 said to have left Dublin since the begtaoring of the second private Inquiry into the murder conspiracy. An important bill has introduced ,n the French Chain! Tirard, the Minister of Finance, Wide® will have the effect of lifting the Government out of its financial difficulties itprojaoses to convert the 5 per cent, rentes Jntn .4% per cents. France has been paying 6 per cent on adebt of $1,400,000,000, which Was borrowed twelve years ago to pay the German war indemnity. The credit of the country is now so good that it can borrow it 4 and even 8 per cent Instead of the pensions which it was proposed to bestow upon Gen. Wolseley and Admiral Seymour, payable also to their heirs after the death of the pensioners, it has been decided by the British Government tq

five each a large sum of money in one payment, the amount of which has not yet been determined. In the trial of Kelley, at Dublin, James Carey, the informer, swore that every one of the Invincibles, with the exception of Joe Brady, had offered to turn informer Carey said he was the last man who offered to testify against the prisoners. The London Times, in referring to the vote by which the Affirmation bill was defeated, says: “The authority and power of the Government have received a shock. This, without djubt, the Ministers will recognize themselvea The spell of their success is broken.* J. R. Keene’s Bluegrass won the Burwell stakes at Newmarket, England, from four competitors. The death sentence of Delaney, convicted of. participation in the Phoenix Park murders, has been commuted. The reply of the Prussian Government to the last note from the Vatican has created an unfavorable impression at Rome. A letter from the President of the French republic informs the King of Annam that the inability of the latter to preserve order at Tonquin compels France to establish herself there The King is advised not to resist, but to recognize the protectorate, and is guaranteed the integrity of his domains. At Paris a man going to church to be married was killed by his rival, Who then poisoned himself. ' Haytien rebels are reported to have blown up the bridge at Miragoane, resulting in the killing of 200 persons and wounding as many more. Joseph Mullett was convicted at Dublin of complicity in the attempt to murder Juror Field, and was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He refused counsel, and said the English press comments had prejudiced his case.