Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Regarding the London explosions, details show that the number injured is fully os large as first reported. It has also been determined that nitro-glycerine entered largely into the composition of the explosives used. The Irish in London are greatly excited, and are free to confess that the crime was planned by enemies of the National movement. O’Donovan Rossa claims the explosions were caused by Fenians, of whose movements he it aware. All the banks, public buildings and prisons at Glasgow are carefully guarded against explosions. The explosivo used al Frankfort-on-the-Main was nitro-glycerine, which had been placed in eight small glass shells, perforated with holes. The Lord Mayor of Dublin was announced to speak in the City hall at Londondeiry, but a crowd of Orangemen took possession of it and declared they would hold it. An immense procession of Nationalists escorted the Lord Mayor past the building, when the Orangeman thew stones from the roof and windows and wounded a man and a boy. A mob then stoned the City hall, and the militia were called out. The Mayor ol Londondery issued a proclamation appealing to the people to keep the peace. The Prince of Wales, in closing the International Fisheries exhibition at London, announced that the substantial surplus would be devoted to improving the condition of the fishermen. He expressed the hope that hygienic and inventors’ expositions would be held soon, and said he proposed to have a colonial exhibition in 1886. France does not intend to provoke hostilities with China, but will not renew negotiations; its forces are firmly planted in Tonquin. It is thought, in the meantime, that England will make endeavors to avert a war. Court circles on the Continent are now excited over the rumored betrothal of the Crown Prince Carlos of Portugal to the Archduchess Marla Valeria, youngest daughter of the Emperor of Austria. Prince Bismark Las entirely regained his former strength. King Alfonso has the rheumatism. The Princess Albert of Prussia has sprained her ankle. A man named Piotrowski has been arrested in Prussia for having undertaken to murder Bismarck for the Nihilists, and has confessed his guilt. Cablegrams announce the suspension of Carver, Derbyshire &f Co., merchants oi London and Manchester, with liabilities of £120,000, and of Hollinshead, Titley & Co., cotton brokers of Liverpool, who owe £IOO,000. Moody has begun a mission of six months in London, in an iron chapel seating 5,000 persons. There were 240 deaths from cholera at Meoca last week. It was Deßrazza’s brother who was killed in the Congo country, and not the explorer himself. The German Government has offered to mediate between the ruler of Bub garia and the Czar. A conflagration in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, destroyed over $2,000,000 worth of property, mainly warehouses. The peasants about Belgrade have grown violent, and troops have been forwarded to disarm them and martial law declared. Bismarck has been compelled to abandon cigars and wine, but Emperor William continues to enjoy life. It is asserted that the Malagassy Envoys who recently returned from a visit to Europe and America and the Prime Minister have been murdered. Great Britain has sounded the Brazilian and the United States Governments to ascertain whether they would meditate between France and Chino. A Committee of the Austro-Hungar*

lan Delegations, or Parliament, in reporting favorably on plans for additional military expenditures, enlarges on the value of a good fighting rfllianoe with Germany—all In the Interests of peace. An investigation . into the circumstanoes which led,to the recent explosions in the London underground railway Is asked for in order to ascertain whether there is any semblance of truth in the boasts of O’Donovan Rosa and his dynamite friends that it was their work. Public feeling against Irish secret societies runs very high In England Just now over the matter.