Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The creditors of the King of Bavaria have petitioned for a distrain of his good q but the General of the Army has forbidden bailiffs to take any such action. The Municipal Council of Cork w 11 try the experiment of erecting seventy-four cottages for laborers, to j>e rented for half a crown per week. The value of the crops in Ireland this year reached nearly £1,650,000. This is largely above the average for the last decide. Gen. Booth, of London, in ask ng for $30,000 for the expenses of the Salvation Army for 1886, states that ho will not publish the accounts of past years. So great has been the fall of snow throughout Scotland that a train with three engines was stalled in the County Caithness. Signor Sbarbaro, who was elected a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for Pavia, and who has been undergoing a sentence of seven years’ imprisonment for threatening the Ministry, has been released from prison. Germany’s trade review shows a gloomy outlook. Pope Leo has given to the College of the Propaganda the sum of £20,001’, which he obtained by selling personal presents received during several years. Latest reports from the west coast of Ireland are heartrending, and show that prompt and liberal help for the povertystricken people is sorely needed. It is reported that Lord Randolph Churchill’s scheme for Irish home rule dies not include a Parliament for Ireland, but abolishes Castle rule, substituting therefor officers elected by the people for fixed te:ms. The annexation of Burmah to the British Empire has been formally announced in India and England. Officers appointed by the Viceroy of India are to administer the Government. The Egyptian problem is again forcing itself to the front in British politics, and bids fair to prove almost as severe a tax upon the resources of British statesmanship as the Irish question itself. Great interests are at stake in Egypt, and it is becoming more evident every day that the safety of England’s Eastern possessions is largely contingent upon the result of the pending struggle in the Soudan. A portion of Upper Burmah, it has been ag -eed, will be ceded to China. Lord Randolph Churchill has submitted to the British Cabinet a proposition for the reform of the administration of tho Government in livlmd. There was a quiet observance in Berlin of the twenty-ti.th anniversary of the accession of Emperor William to the throne of Prussia, Queen Victoria is angry at the refusal of tho foreign courts to recognize the right of Prince Henry of Battenberg, the husband of Princess Beatrice, to the title of Royal Highne is. Princess of Paris, nee Eva Mackay, gave birth to a son last week. A magnific nt outfit for the infant has been received from San Francisco. The chiistening dress is entirely composed of antique point d’Alencon. Hydrophobia is raging to such an extent in Franpe taut the police have been ordered to shoot all stray dogs. The four children from Newark, N. J., who have been under Pasteur’s treatment for the disease, saiied for New York apparently cuied.