Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A second edition of Queen Victoria’s new book, issued on the 11th of February, is being printed. Ten thousand copies of the book were sold the first day of publication. It consists of a diary covering the period embraced between 1836 »nd 1870, and is devoted almost exclusively to domestic and family affairs. The Mexican Government has appropriated $200,000 for suitable representation at the world's exhibition in New Orleans. Seven persons were drowned at Dundee, Scotland. They were pleasure-seekers. Vague reports have reached London of a frightful butchery of Christians in Tonquin. It is stated that from 250 to 300 Catechists have been massacred and the missionhouse destroyed. An unknown man seized Premier Gladstone in Bond street, London, and brought him to a stand. The Premier disengaged himself, and proceeded to the House of Commons. . Turkey has a new trouble on her hands. The Cretans are again in a revolt, arising from the determination of the Sultan that the Christians in Crete, who belong to the Greek Church, shall be regulated by the Mohammedan religious laws. So long as these laws applied only to civil affairs the Cretans made no serious objections; but when it was sought to regulate their, ecclesiastical affairs they at once resisted. Greek brigands have made another haul of Judges and other officials. A company, of which John Bright, E. Dwyer Gray and Charles S. Parnell are directors, has been formed, to operate under the Irish tramways act, to purchase estates' and relieve congested districts. Russian journals, in noting thp final annexation of Merv, declare that England and Russia can continue to gobble Asia without arousing new antagonisms. The German papers, however, cannot refrain from taunting England on the added dangers which the recent conquests of Russia have brought to British rule in India. Gen. Gordon has reached Khartoum, and posted a proclamation recognizing El Mehdi as the Sultan. A duel between members of the French Chamber of Deputies took place in Paris, M. Laquerre receiving a wound in the knee. Bismarck has returned the Lasker resolutions to the German Minister at Washington, instructing him to return them to the House of Representatives, as they are not acceptable to Germany, and ask for their recall. The London Times states that there is considerable ill-feeilng between the Washington and Berlin Cabinets. Attempts have been made at Kieff, Russia, to incite a massacre of the Jews. A bill for suppressing seditious street demonstrations has been passed by the French Chamber. Bismarck has been assured of the Czar’s friendship by a military attache of the Russian Embassy nt Berlin. A second large mass-meeting was held in London, to denounce the policy of the government in relation to Egypt. A resolu-

tion offered by Sir Robert Peel, that Parlament had ceased to be in accord with the people, was adopted. A royal commission, of which Sir Charlo? Dilke is Chairman, will shortly inquire into the condition of the dwellings, of the poor in the United Kingdom. Four men fired upon the carbineer of King Humbert's train near Corncto, Italy. The carbineer returned the fire, wounding cne of his assailants. A bottle of gunpowder with a lighted fuse attached was also thrown at the train, without doing any damage, however.