Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

James Carey, the informer, has failed to pay his taxes in Dublin, and been declared bankrupt ‘ The joint committee of the British Lords and Commons on the channel tunnel has rejected the scheme—6 to 4 ' The British Government and M. De Lesseps have entered into an agreement for the construction of a new Suez Canal, parallel to the present one. ” The House* of Lords committee on the Land Act ilteported that the immigraffaxn clause isa failure, that the .modes of valuation are untrustworthy, and that the relations betveer tenant and landlord have not. fanproved. In the House of Commons was adopted that the importattCTjMMw l cattle should not be permitted from countries where the sanitary conditional preventive laws did »ot guard against the foot-and-mouth disease, yf s A bill has been introduced in the, French Chamber sounding for piers for a railway bridge to England across the Straits of Dover. In a battle in Zululand Oetewayo’s forces defeated those of Oliam, who was made prisoner Twelve soldiers were kiHed at Tripoli by the explosion of a bomb which was being removed. .. Mto Even the English nef sgatherersi admit that the paupers just sent Wt hy Ue American authorities are an undesirable and the British Government for a new Suez canal provides that the latter party willjdnd the canal company £8,<X,0,001 for fifty yearif at per cent, and that the work will be completed fa* five years. Englßpdwill tuM deavor to secure a fresh concession of land the House Df CommoiM that the freqch Admiral, after the seMreof MadagAscfr.UmS prisoned the Secretary of the British Consul,

and caused the death of the latter, tndl rectiy. aim mat an jtngn.su missionary from the French Governments the cate refiniped. A cable dispatch of the 13th inst. says that cholera has appeared la towns thirty to forty miles from Cairo. The British Government will send to Egypt a Surgeon General who has had long experience in India. France wifi dispatch Louis Pasteur, the chemist, to investigate the nature and origin of the disease. Pope Leo XIII. has summoned the French Bishops to Rome for a council, t De Cassagnac has invited the French Premier, Ferrv, to fight a duel, owing to the heated debate' on the Tonquin question, but Ferry declined. Sexton, member of Parliament for the County Sligo, has made a speech voicing the glee of the Irish over the peremptory action of the American authorities in returning the paupers recently deported by England on the Furnessia and other vesselsThe British consul at Zanzibar is ref sponsible for the sensational statements of tbe acts of the French in Madagascar made by Mr, Gladstone, for which Lord Granville e has demanded an explanation. In an inter** Mew at Paris, Prime Minister Ferry ridiculed the idea that any French Admiral wouldtnsult the British flag, and expressed the sincere belief that the occurrences at Tamstave were exaggerated. B In the course of a debate on thepolicy of the Government in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, Oastelar, the Republican leader, declared that his views remained unchanged, and he was confident they would ultimately prevail He maintained that democracy was incompatible with monarchy, and he attacked the monarchy and defendedjwpublicanism amid great com motion.