Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Sir Charles Dilke does not intend to resign his seat in the House of Commons. Lord Roseberry, the new British Minister for Foreign Affairs, has notified Greece that England will not permit war between the Hellenes and Turks. Several workmen were killed»in Liverpool and eighteen others broke limbs by the collapse of the shipperies exhibition building; in process of construction. Advices from London say that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, President of the Localj Government Board, has quarreled with his Radical colleague, Sir Charles Dilke, andj abandoned him because Sir Charles refuses to adopt Mr. Chamberlain’s advice to testify under, oath that he was not guilty of the offenses charged against him as corespondent in the: Crawford divorce suit. Count de Lesseps, on arriving at Colon, was greeted by the entire official staff of the Panama Canal Company'. Mrs. Crawford, who recently figured • in a divorce case in the London courts, has gone into seclusion in Italy. Count de Soto, the Spanish Minister to Switzerland, has been recalled for intoxication and rudeness in a ball-room at Geneva. On the reassembling of the British Parliament Mr. Gladstone stated in the House of Commons that the Government had no intention of renewing coercion in Ireland, but would propose a method for its future government. Socialists of London, to the number of ten thousand, massed in Hyde Park, London, last Sunday, listened to speeches from three platforms, and adopted resolutions censuring the Government for its failure to commence public works in behalf of the unemployed. Thirty thousand persons have applied to the Mansion House for relief. Sylvia Dumont, a queen of the Paris demi-monde, was stabbed by her jealous lover, Emile Boitte, whom she thereupon shot with a revolver. Both died. The Irish party will hold a meeting in London on St. Patrick’s Day, Parnell presiding, the object of which will bo to issue to England the ultimatum of the Irish people concerning home rule. Meetings of the same nature will bo held throughout Ireland the same day. The loyalists of County Tyrone at a monster meeting resolved to oppose home rule, and maintain the union. The new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland made his state entry mto Dublin, and reports, say there was no display. A body of students following the procession was attacked, and) some of them were seriously injured.