Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Hosiery operatives to the number of 150 have left Nottingham, England, to take places already secured in the United States. The son of the Bishop of Rochester, England, has become a Catholic. Louise Mich.'l, the female Anarchist, now in prison, is to be pardoned New Year’s Day. Miss FortescuO, the breach-of-prom-ise actress, has again become engaged to Harry Quilter, the bank clerk, whom she once jilted. Sir Samuel Baker declares that Gen. Wolseley is further now from Khartoum than if he were in Portsmouth Harbor. The death sentence of the cannibalistic officers of the English yaoht Mignonette has been commuted to imprisonment for six months. Nubar Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, threatens to resign, and a Ministerial crisis is feared. A movement is reported on foot to replace Ismail Pasha in the throne. It is reported that the Mahdi, for fear of being poisoned, surrounds his tent with a triple line of guards and has his food prepared by a favorite wife or daughter. The Italian steamer Genoa put in at Gibraltar for coal and provlolons. She sailod two months ago with emigrants to South America, and had an outbreak of cholera on board, with twenty deat'is. She was not allowed to land on this side cf the Atlantic. According to the report of the Tariff Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies the yield of cereals in France has steadily increased during tt:o last thirty years, and the average per hectare is equal to the average yield in this country. There is a bitter feeling in England against Lord Granville, whose foreign policy is blamed for the German success in the direction of African colonization. The new German White Book shows that the rectfnt action of Germany in regard to Africa is due to English hauteur. All London was intensely alarmed

the other day by an attempt to blow tip London bridge wltb dynamite. Tbe attempt, however, proved an titter failure, ae far aa tbe design to demolish tbe structure was concerned. About £SO worth of windowglass was broken in the vicinity. The bridge Itself escaped without Injury. A strong force of police was put on guard, and others sent out to search for the parties who planned the destruction of the bridge, but no arrests were made or clew discovered. Owing to the excitement and the fear of a repetition of the explosion, traffic was suspended for a time.