Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Rioting was resumed in Trafalgar Square, London, on the 9th inst, by ten thousand men, mainly ot the lowest class, who were driven by the police into the side streets and dispersed. Burns, Champion, Hyndman, and Williams, the four principal leaders of -the riots, called on Joseph Chamberlain, President of the Local Government Board. Mr. Chamberlain refused to see them personally, but replied to a statement in writing relative to the grievances of the workingmen with a letter in which he said he did not think any of the remedies proposed by the Social Democratic Federation would prove effectual to relieve the misery of the unemployed. He accompanied this statement with some vague promises of attention to the wants of the poor. His visitors went away dissatisfied. The Supreme Court at Leipsic convicted Capt. Sarouw of having furnished plans and information of German fortifications to the French authorities, and sentenced him to penal servitude for twelve years.

The French Chamber of Deputies rejected a motion of want of confidence in the Government by a vote of 301 to 188. Mr. O’Shea, the Parnellite candidate, has been elected member of Parliament from Galway. The riotous turbulence in the city of London appears to have entirely subsided. The press of that city are very severe in their strictures of the gross inefficiency of the police during the recent outbreak. A Prussian society is to be formed to promote a friendly understanding between nations. The gamblers at Monaco were shocked by the suicide of a French merchant and his wife after sustaining heavy losses. The reported massacre of Bishop Hannington and fifty followers at Uzegena, Africa, is confirmed. Belgrade advices state that King Milan has resolved to sign a treaty of peace witl| Bulgaria, no matter what action the Greek Government may decide to take. The lower house of the Bavarian Parliament, by a vote of 90 to 45, adopted a resolution in opposition to Government monopolj of the liquor traffic. The riots in London so thoroughly awakened the wealthy classes that they hav( already subscribed £30,000 for the relief of thl unemployed