Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Chief Mampoer, convicted by the Boers of treason, has been hanged. A cablegram from Rome chronicled the death of Gulseppe Mario, the famous tenor. The executions at Belgrade for participation in the recent uprising comprised four priests, four merchants, a school teacher and nine peasants. Parnell was given a banquet in the Rotunda at Dublin, Lord Mayor Lawson presiding, when the national tribute of £38,000 was presented and accepted. Twelve hundred persons were present. Michael Davitt delivered a ringing address. Congratulatory telegrams were interchanged with Alexander Sullivan at Chicago. A gale of almost unexampled severity blew in England and Scotland. From one to three people were killed at each of no less than nine places. Many cities were flooded. Houses were blown down nearly everywhere on the Island. The Lincoln Cathedral was damaged. The storm will probably be the talk of the British people for many years to come. Resolutions repudiating all the propositions thus far made by De Lesseps on the Suez Canal question were enthusiastically adopted at a meeting of the Ship-owners’ Union held in London. A cable dispatch says the Mandarins of Annam have publicly resolved to ignore the treaty forced by the French from Tu Duo recognizing the French occupation of Annam, and have proclaimed war against France. Admiral Courbet, commanding the French squadron in China, has notified the French Government that it is imperatively necessary to immediately reinforce the French army in Hue. The King of Annam has been poisoned at Hue by the anti-Frencb party. Abbott, Page & Co., London stockbrokers, have failed for $825,000. The deficit in the Egyptian budget for this year amounts to $10,000,000. Pierre Richard de la Prade, the French poet, and M. Henri Martin, the historian, arc dead. The French Chamber rejected a motion to abolish the Vatican embassy—32s to 191. The Dutch steamer Auk foundered off the English coast, and theerewof twentyone persons perished. O’Donnell, the avengfer, was hanged in Newgate prison, London, atß;o2 o’clock on Monday morning, Dec. 17. The execution occurred without a hitch. O’Donnell was calm and collected, and made no statement on the scaffold.' Johnson Pool, for the murder of John Kennedy, wan executed at Dublin on the morning of Dec. 18. Peter Wade has been sentenced to be hanged at Dublin on the 16th of January for the murder of Patrick (Juinn, in October last. A cargo of 100,000 cwt of American

wheat has just arrived at Laube, in Bohemia, the first ever Itn ported into Austria. The situation, in Egypt is growing more gloomy every day. The recent defeat has demoralized Baker Pasha's recruiting force, and men are now being employed to kidnap unemployed negroes, and if the English troops will not help them, it is predicted that the Turks will have to be called in. There will be a deficit of about £1,250,000 in the Egyptian finances for the year, and Egypt, besides, has to pay £1,200,000 for English troops, who are threatening to leave her every day.