Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Deputy Antoine, who, in a recent letter to the Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, expressed seditious sentiments, was arrested the other day at Metz upon the charge of high treason toward the German Empire A report has been received at London from an Uppemavlk correspondent of a Copenhagen paper that Lieut. Greely, of the Arctic expedition, had been murdered by a mutinous crew. From the fact that Dr. Nathorst, the geologist of the Nor den-' skjold expedition, has never mentioned the matter in his reports, the story is considered improbable. King Alfonso was enthusiastically welcomed back to Madrid by the Spanish people. A grand popular reception followed at the palace in the evening, at which 30,000 of his subjects were present The Stratford-upon-Avon authorities —Mayor and Council—having refused to consent to the exhumation of Shakspeare’s remains, they will remain untouched, according to the poet’s directions. John Brown, Queen Victoria’s late faithfu “gillie,” in addition to the blank verse Mr. Tennyson wrote about him, is to be commemorated by a life-size statue, a monument, and a cablet. The French Consulate at Saragossa, Spain, was stoned by the populace. At a meeting in Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland, the Bishop of Clonfert delivered a speech, dwelling at great length, upon the fact that millions of Catholics had been lost to the Catholic faith in America, and denouncing in severe terms the existing system of State-aided emigration. King Alfonso finds that the insults flung at him in Paris have made him a hero at home. He has heaped coals of fire on the heads of the French rabble by donating 10,000 francs for the rekef of the poor in Paria All the members of the Ministry of Norway have been impeached by the Supreme court. Anti-Jewish outbreaks in Ekaterinoslav and other districts in Southern Russia have led to the proclamation of the martial law. Those informers in the Phoenix Park murder trials who were not permitted to land at Melbourne are to be sent to India Joseph Smith landed at Marseilles, France, a few days ago, and was recognized by several persons, when he mysteriously disappeared. While the French Government officials are still quarreling among themselves at Paris, it is reported that Spain, not content with the mere statement that President Grevy privately apologized to Alfonso, has resolved to ask for the publication of Grevy’s apology in full in the official journal. The French Government has ordered an official investigation into the incidents attendant upon Alfonso's visit, with a view to discovering who caused the disturbance on that occasion. It is stated that the Irish Invincibles have formed a committee to hunt down informers, and have spies In all the British colonies and throughout the Western hemisphere. Many persons were wounded in Belfast, Ireland, in a flight between an Orange procession and a gathering of Catholics. The students of the St. Petersburg University have been the instigators of antiJewish riots at Dorpat and other places near the Russian capital. They are also oharged with being the authors of incendiary fires. The weakness of the Irish vote* in Manchester is the cause of comment. The Parnell!tea had calculated on 10,000, but their

zeal vote fell below 3,000, which seems to discredit the idea that they wonld be able to control thirty English seats through the balance of the Irish vote in different constituencies. fThe Parnell testimonial fund has reached £27,000, and is expected to reach £40,000 before the end of the year. The French Civil and Military Chiefs In Tonquin announce that military operations now are impossible, owing to the condition of the roads. The son of the Greek Minister at Paris accidentally killed himself while handling a revolver.