Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Resolutions condemning the Commons for refusing Bradlaugh his seat and favoring the abolition of Parliamentary oaths were adopted with great enthusiasm at the Leeds conference of prominent English Liberals. Large sums are being sent from America to defend Poole, to be tried at Dublin for murder. A cable dispatch from Constantinople says that “an earthquake which bids fair to prove almost as destructive as the one on the island of Ischia occurred on the peninsula between Chesme, Asia Minor, and Vouria, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Smyrna. Six villages were completely destroyed and many others seriously damaged, while, as far as can be learned at present, upward of 1,000 persons have perished. This list includes only those living in the more accessible hamlets along the coast. What damage and what loss of life has been caused in the interior will not be known for days. The survivors of the disaster are suffering fearful privations. The first shock seems to have been felt early in the morning. This was but light, and no attention was paid to it. In a few minutes a second shock occurred. Then the houses, flimsy structures at best, collapsed. Most of the people were sleeping. These were buried under the ruins. Those whose houses were strong managed to escape. In a wild panic they sought the fields, aqd could not be persuaded to return to the rescue of their less fortunate fellow townspeople, whose cries were pitiful. Many of them are still huddled in in a starving condition and suffering from cold, but more terrified, by fears of a repetition of the dreaded shocks. The citizens of Smyrna, who were the first to hear of the disaster, sent help to the stricken people. Hundreds wore rescued - from the villages more or less wounded.” Mr. Moody has been so roughly received by the Cork mob that it has been found necessary to guard the hall by police every evening. London bill-posters refuse to placard the announcement of a locturo by Michael Davitt. Near Atlatasa, Asia Minor, houses and people were swallowed up by tho recent earthquake. Assistance is urgently needed in Chivs and the mainland, in which latter district tho British Consul reported 1,000 persons killed and wounded. In Madagascar the British naval authorities are hostile to the French, whose chief commander is preparing to begin an attack upon the Hovas. An explosion occurred at a colliery in Wharncliff, Yorkshire, England, and twenty miners were killed. Five who were in the shaft escaped with th’eir lives. It is rumored in London that Mme. Christine Nilsson will marry an American merchant. The Irish National league has passed a resolution expressing surprise and pleasure at the tenor of the speech of Chief Justice

Coleridge at his reception by the New York Bar association. The resolution expresses the hope that the principles enunciated in that address will be applied by the British Government to Ireland. Physicians at Ermsleben, Saxony, report triohinasis rapidly spreading, and predict that 30 per cent, of the cases will prove fatal. Mrs. Carey mil receive a weekly allowance of £4 10s. for herself and family until the conclusion of the trial of O'Donnell. She has been prohibited from confiding In interviewers.