Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Secretary of the Irish National League sends word over the cable that Mr. Parnell will be unable to attend a convention in Chicago in January. Patrick Egan has therefore ordered a postponement of the gathering until a convenient date can be fixed. The canvass of members of the British Parliament gives Gladstone an assured majority over any possible combination of Whigs and Tories. The Lords threaten to throw out any bill for Ireland distasteful to tho Conservatives. Cholera is raging in Cayenne, the capital of French Guinia. Mr. Pendleton, tho American Minister to Germany, has been notified that it is intended to expel the Germau-Amerieans residing at Schleswig who emigrated to the United States just before becoming liable to military service, and returned after being naturalized. Tho recent expulsion of other Gormau-Ameri-c.ins remains suspended. Marcus GervaAo Beresford, Archbishop i f Armagh, is dead. Sir Ambrose Shea has been appointed Governor of Newfoundland. The Greek Chamber has sanctioned the raising of loans for war purpose-. Efforts to adjust the difficulty between the Cork Steam-Packet Company and the Cattle-Dealers’ Association have failed. In a political riot at Limerick, Ireland, where both sexes used sticks, stones and guns, no less than twenty persons were dangerously wounded. The police failed to restore order uut 1 two hours had elapsed. The prediction is made by the London Economist that the Americans will not permit much gold to bo shipped until tho silver question has been settled. A Berlin banker placed a Russian gold loan of 20,000,000 rubles, for which the subscriptions wore ten times that amount A Chinese railway loan of £35,000,000 is being negotiated by the discount company.