Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A cable dispatch announces the death of Henry Fawcett, British PostmasterGeneral and Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University. Mr. Fawcett was born In 1835 and graduated with the highest mathematical honors from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1858. Soon after he was made blind for life turough the result of an accidental discharge of his father’s gun while both were out shooting. In spite of his oalamity Henry Fawcett turned his attention to the study of economic science, and he soon became Professor of Political Economy in the university, a position he ‘held at the time of his death. His lecture-room was ever crowdel. In 1867 Mr. Fawcett married Miss Milllcont Garrett, by whom he leaves several children. At the time of his death he was Fostmaster-General and represented the borough of Hackney in the House of Commons. . The absolute divorce of Mdme. Patti from the Marquis of Caux has been decreed by a Frenchcourl. William Liebkneckt, the socialistic agitator, has been again expelled from Berlin. The Prince of Saxe-Meiningep has separated from his wife, who Is a daughter of the Crown Prince of Germany. Ex-Secretary Cornwall of the Dublin

Postoffice threatens to make publie revelations involving several Dublin Castle officials. The low price of wheat in England is keeping out American imports, and the stock of native grain is, therefore, being rapidly bought up. Lord Durham, one of the leading Peers of England, is about to bring suit for divorce from his recently wedded wife on the ground that she is mentally unsound. English landlords are in a state of impeouniosity owing to tbe difficuly of collecting rents. Lord Spencer, the Irish Viceroy, loudly complains on this score.