Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A pamphlet has been published at Berlin aiming to prove that Bismarck attempted to have France join the German alliance against Bussia and England. The London club sensation has culminated in the conviction of fifty-two members for playing baccarat. The proprietor of the club and the committeemen were fined $2,500 each. The other players were mulcted for SSOO each. The Dublin paper, United Ireland, exults over the Mahdi’s victories in Egypt, hopes that Baker and Gordon will meet the fate of Gen. Hicks, and trusts that the Soudan legions will soon arrive at Cairo. It appears from the correspondence (now published in London) which preceded the hanging of Patrick O’Donnell that] Minister Lowell was personally snubbed as sharply as was the Nation which he represents. All of Lord GranviHe's replies to ex-Lord Rector Lowell were limited to a single sentence, and that sentence in each case only expressed—first, the request that the United States mind Its own business; and second, the declaration that Britons never, never, never should be slaves! Hundreds of persons, suspected of being socialists, are being arrested at St. Petersburg. An open winter in the arctic circle is indicated by the vast fields of ice encountered by steamers crossing the Atlantic. A state of siege has been proclaiined at Suakim. The French Ambassador at London offered to land troops at Suakim and march them to the relief of Khartoum, leaving to a conference of the powers the final settlement of the Soudan question. Cetewayo is again reported dead—this time from heart disease. > The French Academy of Medicine, in reply to the questions of the Minister of Commerce, in reference to American pork, says that the symptoms of typhoid trichiniasis are so dissimilar Trorn all others that they can never bo mistaken, and that the importation of foreign salt pork may be fearlessly authorized by the French Government, as it has been clearly proved that no danger to the public health has been caused by such importation. The Parnellites are making a poor

i show in the House of Commons. Parnell, so I far, has been able to count only twenty-two i followers. James O’Kelly, the Egyptian correspondent of the London Daily News, for whose safety fears have been expressed, has been heard from in a letter dated at Assioot, Jan. 5. Bradlaugh has been defeated in his appeal to the Court of Queen’s Bench against the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons. That officer, in obeying the orders of the House, removed the atheist leader from the door, and Bradlaugh brought ineffectual suit