Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

“The scenes in the House of Commons when Mr. Gladstone announced the retirement of liis Ministry,” says a London dispatch, “were the most extraordinary that have been witnessed in St. Stephen’s Hall for many years. The attendance and the excitement have not been equaled for a generation. The crowds in the House overflowed into the palace yard, and the whole Westminster district was filled with excited groups of men of all parties, who cheered or hooted every notable member according to his politics. The cheering reached its climax when Mr. Gladstone made his appearance in the House. The applause seemed to be very grateful to the retiring Premier, and he deliberately nursed it by standing in his p’aceand bowing to the right and to the left as the greater volume of sound seemed to come from this or that direction. When he spoke at last it was to make the announcement plainly and unequivocally that the Queen had telegraphed her acceptance of his resignation and those of his colleagues in the Cabinet.” Each widow of a Canadian voyageur in the Nile expedition will receive £IOO from the imperial government. At the annual dinner of the Cobden Club, in London, Sir Charles Dilke said he desired for Ireland the same forms of government as for England. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain agreed with Dilke, and said that England’s general trade was more prosperous than that of any other country in the world, The speeches of both men are regarded as a direct bid by the Radicals for an Irish alliance against both Whigs and Tories. Albert Pel was found guilty at Paris of having poisoned his mother and two wives and sentenced to death by the guillotine. The French Government has resolved to suppress the gaming-tables at Monte Carlo. Russia offers to resume diplomatic relations with the Vatican If his holiness will induce the Catholic bishop 3 of Poland to abandon tho idea of re-establishing the nationality of that country. Ex-Empress Eugenie having withdrawn Prince Victor Napoleon’s annuity of 21,000 francs because of his riotous course of life, a syndicate of admirers has settled upon him a pension of double that sum. The Queen is being censured for her prompt acceptance of Gladstone’s resignation, but she appears delighted with the change. She never liked tho Premier, it is said, because ho could not flatter, and was Impatient as a state servant to the throne, and besides they were never in harmony about England’s foreign affairs.