Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The London Tory journals urge the prosecution of William Redmond, one of the Parnellite members of Parliament, for his speech in Dublin in which he said that if the Irish people failed to obtain redress by parliamentary means they would try other methods. The police of Naples have been ordered to prevent religious processions, which tend to the spread of cholera, and which, it is charged, are promoted for sordid purposes. Grand Trunk railway officials, in semi-annual meeting at London, declared a full dividend on first preference shares, but passed the dividend on second preferred shares. The net loss on receipts for the six months was £49,000. Two more telegrams have been received at Cairo from Gen. Gordon, who complains of dilatory action in sending relief, while the foes in his front are increasing in numbers, There were 630 new cases of cholera in Italy, including 507 in Naples, on the 18th of September. Of tho 341 deaths, 283 occurred in the same city. # A Rome dispatch states that the Pope has created the Archbishop of Sens and the Archbishop of Kheims Cardinals. The Limerick Councilmen refuse very positively to make an assessment for the extra police tax, or to tend a deputation to Lord Spencer, the Irish Viceioy, to arrange for a compromise. The Councilmen take it that the tax was an unjust one, and are prepared to go to, prison rather than mako the assessment for its payment. Reports have reached Cairo that Gen. Gordon recently fought two battles with the rebels and raised the siege of Khartoum. The Journal des Debats, one of the leading Parisian journals, condemns the management of the French navy and says it is almost worthless. Tho Pall Mall Gazette says similar harsh things about tho British navy. Mr. Harrington, an Irish member of Parliament, in a letter to the Dublin Freeman’s Journal, the principal Irish daily newspaper, says that ho is convinced from cara

ful personal inquiry that Myles Joyce, who was hanged for complicity in the Maamtrasna murders, and four other persons convicted at the same time were innocent. The German Colonization Society proposes to secure land in Zanzibar for colonization purposes, instead of on the west coast of Africa, as at first projected. A hotel at Borzig, Pomerania, was recently sold by a man named Seavert, who probably sailed for the United States. The new landlord soon discovered in the cellar the corpses of six traveling salesmen who had been guests at the house.