Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Thomas Oaffrey, the fourth of theassasins of Cavendish and Burke at Phoenix Park, a year ago, was hanged in the Dublin jail on the 2nd inst. When placed in the dock he pleaded guilty, and stated that until twenty minutes before the tragedy he did not know what was going to happen. At a banquet given to Portuguese and Spanish statesmen in Madrid, Senor Castelar made a speech advocating a political union of the two Iberian nations. Viscount Almendurka, of Portugal, pointed out the obstacles to a union between a tranquil nation like Portugal and an agitated country like Spain. It is reported that the Pope is about to order the suspension from all sacerdotal functions of such Irish clergymen as continue to participate in political agitation. Five members of the Republican Brotherhood at Waterford, Ireland, have been arrested upon the charge of conspiracy to murder. A “peer of the realm,” Lord Charles Beresford, has entered the prize-ring in England. The arrival in that country of Jem Mace and his Maori novice was no sooner announced than his Lordship’s arlstocratio blood was stirred for a fight He challenged the Maori and Mace, and a set-to -without gloves was arranged between him and Maoe. The latter was soundly thrashed. The Prinoe of Wales was present, and he was surrounded by a large number of aristocratic sports and private gentlemen. Much uneasiness exists in English political circles over the aggressive policy of France in Tonquin, China, and Madagascar. The Gladstone Government is somewhat embarrassed over the radical movement in favor of reform in the London municipal corporations and the land agitation in Scotland, which continues to spread. Count von Moltke’s recent tour to Italy Is believed in France to have been undertaken for the purpose of determining the best route for an invasion of Southern France; Expatriation is to be the reward of the Informers in the Phoenix Park murder trials James Carey has objected, hut the authorities Imperatively require that ha shall leave the country. , Davitt, Healy and Quinn, the Irish agitators, have been released from Kilmainham jail, where they confined for four months os account of utterances construed by the British Government so be seditious. [ •' . In a letter explaining his withdrawal from the Parnellite party, MoCoan, member of Parliament for Wicklow, alleges that the

policy of his late associates is communism and rebellion thinly veiled. The Mayor of Moscow has been banished to his estates for expressing the hope at a recent banquet that the Czar would institute a constitutional regime. , , Edward Harrington, m'ember of Parli&tafent aihd editor the Kei'ry SerUinel, and 'the publisher of the paper named have bees sentdhodd, for the publication of a seditious placard, to imprisonment for 'six months. Two compos!tore who “assisted” in the publication have been sentenced to two months’ Queen Victoria is afflicted With dropsy, and het physicians consider her condition unsafe, feeceht Ms of despondency add wakatfch'oly have effected serious Insults, and it is feared that in a shtirt time she will be confined te NSS: bed. One of the good old, bnt happily now extinct, Puritan customs, from which a hill near Salem, Mass., has derived an immortal name, has been resusciatted In Sierira Leone with, no doubt, gratifying result* t 6 the Strait-laced Inhabitants. Sbme fifty persons suspected ttf indulging in witchcraft haVe bfeen burned aliVe in the Sherbro district. , War preparations on a great Scali are being made lfl Paris fdf a war with China. James B. Keene’s Blue Grass won the Ascot Biennial stakes for 8-year-olds at London, there having been seven starters in the race. Eighteen Egyptian dffiefers have been found guilty 'of ‘coniplioity th the burning of 4&x&udria Two of them were sentenced to death, and the others to various terms of penal servitude Carey, the Dublin informer, who is kept looked up because he refuses to quit Ireland, says, If finally compelled to go, that he will return. Sir George Bowyer, the English legal writer, is deed.