Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Apropos of the London riots, the statistics of pauperism in the British metropolis show that during the last week of January there were 100,507 persons receiving relief there, of whom 57,834 w r ero inmates of poorhouses and 42,763 received out-door relief. The total was an increase of 2,652 as compared with the corresponding week of last year, and of 5,843 as compared with the last week in January, 1884. At a meeting in London of the delegates from various chambers of commerce, Mr. Norwood, a prominent merchant of Liverpool, attributed the present depression in trade mainly to the appreciation of gold Serious commercial depression exists in Sweden. The commercial bank of Soutli Australia has suspended payment Failures in Sweden have increased until the situation is as serious as in 1857. A man named Peronnier, believed to ho insane, caused a sensation in the French Chamber of Deputies by drawing a revolver and firing twice with a downward aim, at the same time throwing a letter toward M. Clemenceau. Peronnier was quickly, seized, and hurried to prison. The average prices of the leading cereals in the English markets for the last year are footed up as 32s lOd per quarter for wheat, 30s Id for barley, and 20s 7d for oats. All these aro for tho quarter of eight measured bushels, which for English wheat averages about oight times sixty-two pounds. It is understood that the wheat figures apply only to the grain grown at home, the product of Indian soil having averaged even less. The lowest price was 80s 2d, touched the last Saturday in the year, hut oven that minimum of less than 88 cents per sixty pounds has been surpassed since then. The average had ■ not boon so low in any former year since 1761, and only four times in the whole of the eighteenth century. The Paris municipal authorities have ordered the natne of the Deity expunged from children’s school hooks. . Servia refuses to accept the treaty of peace drafted by Bulgaria. Prince Bismark has recovered from his recent illness. The Archduchess Maria of Tuscany was married at Vienna to the Archduke Carl Stephan, brother of tho Queen Regent of Spain. Mr. Henry Stevens, the American hibliologist, died at London, Eng., after a long and painful iliness. A Paris journal asserts that Lord Salisbury drew up a convention with Turkey for the cession of Crete to England on the payment of £3,000,000 and a guarantee that Greece would be prevented from taking aggressive measures, but that Gladstone hesitates to oonfirm the mom