Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Alexander M. Sullivan, one of the most noted Irishmen of the century, has just died in Dublin after a protracted illness. Paul Lacroix, a French novelist and antiquary, has just died at Paris. English election agents say that the Government redistribution scheme, if persisted in, will be ruinous to the fortunes of the Liberal party. It is expected that Great Britain’s difficulty with the Boers will bo settled without recourse to arms.. The British Government has decided to expend £1,600,000 on its fortifications in Aden, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The .depression in English shipbuilding continues. Forty ocean steamers are lying idle in the docks at Sunderland, and most of the shipyards are closed. The Paris correspondent of. the London Telegraph states positively that the Chinese Government offered, through the

Washington Government, to pay the French 5,00P,000 francs for their losses. The Irish National League is becoming alarmed at the spread of the labor agitation in Waterford, and have begun taking steps to counteract its effect. The French Minister o£ War strongly opposed the proposal to demolish the Paris fortifications erected under Theirs, and use their sites for building purposes. 1 Six officers of the Russian army and two women were executed in the citadel at St. Petersburg, for political offenses, in presence of U>e members of the Czar's cabinet.