Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Loyalist Unions in Ireland have already arranged to put twenty Parliamentary candidates in the field to oppose the ParnelliLs. A gang of burglars entered the residence of Sir Frederick Ulrich Graham, at Carlisle, England, and had packed up nearly all the valuables, when a servant rushed out for help. A fight took plac 3 between the robbers and the police, in which two of the latter were fatally wounded. An attempt was made at Paris to assassinate M. de Freycinet, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. The shot proved harmless, and before the culprit could fire again he was arrested by a police officer. When the would-be assassin was examined at the police station he confessed he did not know M. de Freycinet personally, and refused to give his name or occupation. A Berlin cablegram chronicles the appointment of Count Herbert Bismarck as Secretary of State. The Cork Packet Company offered £3,000 to the boycotting cattle-dealers to resume shipments, but the money was indignantly refused. Lord John Manners, the British Postmaster General, was refused a hearing by the electors of Leicester. In the disturbance that ensued several heads and chairs were smashed. Mr. Gladstone has had a conference with Lord Granville, his late Foreign Secretary, and it is reported that the policy agreed upon includes recognition of the union of Bulgaria and Roumelia as an accomplished fact, the larger territory being considered a buffer against Russian aggression. It is also said that an alliance with France and Italy will be advocated as an offset to the tripartite alliance of Russia, Austria and Germany. It is reported that a large rebel army is marching northward from Upper Egypt, and that the watchword of the horde is “On to Cairo.” Three thousand workmen have been locked out of Llanberris, a village in Carnarvonshire, in Wales. The men are workers in the slate-quarries. Hostilities have broken out at Baku, on the Caspian Sea, between Moslems and Russians, in which several of the latter were killed or wounded. . Russia is reported as really opposed to the union of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia, and knowledge of this fact causes fresh agitation in the unsettled regions. M. De Lesseps has asked from the French Government permission to issue further Panama Canal bonds to the amount of $120,000,000, to defray necessary expenses in excess of the original estimates. A medical examination has been made of Mattei, the • man who sought to assasinate M. de Freycinet, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the prisoner has been declared insane. The robbery of Nether by Hall, at Carlisle, England, which resulted in the death of three policemen, was planned in London, the funds being furnished by a receiver of stolen goods residing in Stratford. The burglars were six in number, one being a Texas cowboy named Budge, and four of thefa have been arrested. The mansion contained plate and jewelry worth $250,000.