Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

English rule is now complete in Cairo. CHfford Lloyd, an ex-oppressor of the Trish, highly esteemed In London, is now Caliph of Alexandria. At a meeting of 4,000 unemployed persons at Balk) Leves, Prance, many violent speeches were delivered. It is reported that the tribes under El Mahdl have burned and sacked Holonan. They are now marching In great numbers against Pafaz. Franch is assured that England has “urged China to accept accomplished facts” and arrange terms of the Frenoh. This is undoubtedly part of the price which England pays for Egypt. The Frenoe press are advocating an organized effort against the prohibiten of the importation of American pork. The prohibition, it is estimated, will cost the French ports 100,000,000 francs, and deprive the working people, besides, of cheap and wholesome food- i ' The Grand orient of France has issued an appeal to all the lodges of Freemasons in the world, asking a renewal of unity between the Grand orient and all other branches of the Masonic rite. *

Th© Limerick branch of the National League passed a resolution in favor of conferring the freedom of the city upon Michael Davlttand Gray and Dawson, members of Parliament. When the Egyptians evacuate Khartoum and adjacent cities it is estimated tßst there will be 11,000 Christian and European victims of Moslem fanaticism, unless they can be immediately transported to Upper Egypt. A Nationalist meeting in County Fermanagh. which Blggar, M. P., was announoed to address, was prohibited by the authorities.