Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

= The British Foreign Office has been informed that China intends to . oppose a French protectorate over Tonquin. The Pope has exacted a promise from Archbishop Croke that in future,.with regard to political events in Ireland, he will follow in the wake of Cardinal McCabe. An important document has been sent to all the Irish Bishops Joe Brady, the first “Invincible” convicted of participation in the Phoenix Park butchery, was hanged at Dublin on the morning of the 14th inst Reporters were denied admission, the Irish executive and British Home Secretary having sternly resolved that none but officials Should witness the execution. It was sought to make the culprit’s fate mysterious and ignominious, and to cast all possible obloquy upon his memory. The Universal Fisheries Exhibition at London was formally opened.en the 14th inst, a vast concourse being in attendance. The exhibits are by no means complete, and several weeks must elapse before they will be in proper condition. At Berlin the International Hygienic Exhibition was opened by the Crown Prince of Germany. The instructions of the Vatican to the Bishops of Ireland condemn the Parnell testimonials as an incentive to rebellion against the laws, and say it is intolerable that priest or Bishop should *atd such objects. ■ Joe Brady, the first of the ‘lrish Invincibleg to get hisneck into theiangman’s noose fdr the murder of Lord Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke, was visited by his mother just before the execution She was heard to exclaim: “Mind, Joe, no statement” Brady smiled, and replied: “Don’t be foolish; do you think I am a fool?” It is stated that the mother threatened to disown her son if he gave the Government any information. Brady made no statement to the jail chaplain or to the Governor of the prison . One of the’ last things he did was to write a letter to his mother. Brady was a stone cutter, an intelligent, well-in-formed fellow, and a powerful young man physically. Deleaves twenty-four brothers and sisters, all of whom occupy good positions in society. His father and mother are both living, and are under 60 years of age. The Belgian Gove llllll ® ll * proposes to levy a duty on tobacco equaling 8,000,000 francs yearly. At the meeting in June of the Sue? Canal Commissioners at Paris a proposal will be made to cut*a parallel canal at a coSt of 125,000,000 franca

A synopsis of the circular addressed by the Pope to the Irish Bishops has bcsn telegraphed from Rome. The Irish clergy must keep aloof from subscriptions When it is plain that hatred and dissention are aroused thereby, and when it is evident that crimes and murders are never censured by those for whom collections are made. It assures the clergy that they are certainly not forbidden to assist in raising collections to relieve distress. A dynamite bomb exploded in a village near Lisbon during a popular fete, killing four persons «hd wounding twenty. Relative to the » Irish emigration scheme broached by, Canadian capitalists, the British Government to advance money necessaiy to carry it into effect, the Gladstone Cabinet will insist that, if money is to be loaned, it shall be by the Canadian Government • The Pope’s letter to thO Irish Bishops was the subject of discussion at a meeting of the Irish National League at Lublin. One speaker said Irishmen should take their theology and not their polities from Romo, and Uantholottot wm • riMMataiiaMlttetiM

Irish people. The Freeman’s Journal expresses the belief that tire Pope haabeen misled by emissaries of Great Britain. # Eife-Harris, aKas“Sldn the Goat,” the cabman .who drove the Phoenix Park murderers, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life as an accessory to the wniderera Delaney, Edward McCaffrey, and Thomas Martin pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to murder. The first two were remanded for sentence and Martin was discharged on his undertaking to leave the country, Several additional indictments have been found against men accused of conspiracy and making threats A cablegram from Bio Janeiro states that the Brazilian Ministry has resigned, but gives no clew to the reasons for this political development Dr. Laske, the prominent German, Liberal leader, has announced his formal withdrawal from political life. He is suffering greatly from ill-health, and intends to go to America for an Indefinite period The special commission for the trial of the Phoenix Park murderers and their associates concluded its work on the 17th Inst Six men pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to murder, four of whom were sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude each, while the sixth escaped with half that penalty. Mr. O’Donnell, member of Parliament for Dungarvan, in a letter to the freeman's Journal, referring to the Pope's circular to the Archbishops, says that the Vatican has been misled by the specious mendacity which has availed itself of the monstrous ignorance of Irish affairs prevailing at Rome. He characterizes Lord Errington, who has been the medium of communication between Great Britain and the Vatican, as a sneak and renegade, and says the attention of the Vatican should be called to the fact that crime is fostered by England’s enforcement of the infamous land code.