Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN.
M. Sagola, a banker of Calais, France, has suspended, with liabilities estimated at 52,000,030. The members of the Bavarian Cabinet resigned because the King had forbidden them to interfere with his financial affairs. Tho mad monarch owes, and is unable to pay, about 14,000,000. Representatives of a German syndicate recently sailed for China, with SIOO,OOO for expenses, to negotiate with the government for the construction of railways. A Paris cablegram reports the formation of a company of French contractors to enter into competition. It is feared that what will be almost a famine is coming in Ireland, and that with it acts of lawlessness will be more frequent John Magee, the adventurer who lately pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting to procure money from the Prince of Wales by a threatening letter, was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. An important change has been made in the formation of the Japanese Government. A responsible Cabinet has been organized and the general make-up of the executive department now corresponds closely -with that of the United States and England. The German Beichstag has adopted a resolution declaring that the expulsion of Poles from Prussian territory was unjustifiable and incompatible with the interests of German subjects. The ukase ordering the expulsion of all unnaturalized persons from Russia will banish about 100,003 persons. Employers are given eight months to leave, workmen six months, and peasants six weeks. London dispatches say that, while eighty-six Parnellites hold the balance of power in Parliament, it is daily becoming more evident that public opinion will demand a renewal of coercion in Ireland. Affairs in Egypt have assumed a serious aspect, owing to Turkish intrigue. The strife ie assuming a religious coloring, and it is well known that the Sultan has strong feelings on this head. The London Daily Telegram says that the Government proposes to ro-cnact tho clauses of the crime act relating to boycotting and the parte providing to impartial trials and the crushing ojit of terrorism in Ireland.
