Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN.
The bill amending the Irish laborers act passod last year was rejected In the British Commons last week by a vote of 133 to 75. During the dobate Parnell made a bitter attack on Trevelyan, the Irish Chief Secretary. He said the Government should not complain If tho Irish members retaliated lor their obstruction to necessary Irish legislation. He asked significantly whether tho Government would delay such legislation until the laborers burned the roofs ovor tbeir landlords’ beads. A memorial window, the gift of an American citizen, has been placed In a church at Haworth, England, “to tho glory of God, and in memory of Charlotte Bronte.” The Rev. Henry Thomas Eduards, Dean of Bangor, England, has committed suicide, and it Is thought that he was insane at the time. He hung himself to his bedpost. Miss Mary Anderson’s success in Manchester, England, has been without precedent. Her reoeipis last week amounted to $10,760. William O'Brien, member of the English Parl'ament, renews his obarges against French, the Chief of Government Inspectors In Ireland, and Secretary Cornwall, of the Postoffice Department: Ho has filed an affidavit detailing some of their al-
leged bestial crimes, and proposes to bring them to justice, he rays, at any cost. Michael Davitt is being prevailed upon to abandon his lecture-tour around the world, and to remain at home for service In the Irish cause. It is stated by the Pall Mall Gazette that tho Briti-h Government has suggested to the Sultan to send 12,000 troops to the Soudan, landing them atSuakin. from whence they should march to Khartoum to the relief of Gordon. After accomplishing so much. It is provided that they should withdraw with the Anglo-Egyptian garrisons in the Soudan.
