Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A tin can containing four detonators for flriDg dynamite was found under the wall of Woolwich Arsenal, in England. Another tin can near by contained seven pounds of a snbstance thought to be dynamite. It is reported 1 rom Dublin that an attempt was made recently to destroy the Nelson column in that city. A laborer named McGinn was discovered within the precincts of Dublin Castlo with a bag of gunpowder and a long fuse. Nearly $50,000 in contributions from all classes of people in Great Britain have been sent to a sister of Gen. Gordon, to be applied to his relief. Emperor William accepted the resignation of Bismarck as President of the Prussian Cabinet, and gave the position to Boetticher. The French Cabinet has decided upon a gradual recall of a portion of the troops in Tonquin. Subsidies will be granted by the German Government to steamship companies whose vessels ply between German ports and the ports of Eastern Asia and Australia. Queen Victoria is negotiating for the purchase of the villa at Cannes in which Prince Leopold died, with the intention of converting it into a convent and chapel, Judah P. Benjamin, the noted American lawyer, who was so successful ib England, before his death destroyed all papers which might furnish material for a good biography. Ho used to say that the treasuring of old papers caused half the misery of life. Mr. Gladstone, having been convincd that the Tories have beon combined to defeat tho bill to extend the franchise, speaks freely of tho probability that an appeal to tho people will be taken at tho close of tho summer session of Parliament It is reported that preparations are In progress for an expedition to Khartoum for the relief of Gen. Gordon. The expodi-

tion, it is thought, will consist of 12,000 men, forty steam launches. 400 shallow-draught boats, and several thousand came la It is thought that the expedition will not be ready to start before the end of August. The Czarowitz of Russia reached his majority May 17, and the event was celebrar ted at St. Petersburg with imposing ceremonies and a salute of 300 guns. The order of the Black Eagle was conferred by the Emperor of Germany. The Russian royal pair drove through the streets in an open carriage without escort, all windows along the route having been closed by the police.