Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A London dispatch states that Joseph Chamberlain and Mr Trevelyan have tendered to Mr. Gladstone their as members of the Cabinet Both gentlemen disagree with Gladstone on the Irish land scheme, which, it is said, will take £150,000,000 sterling to buy out all the Irish landlords. The wrecked steamship Oregon has broken in two, and lies in 128 fqet of water. The master and purser of the steamer Fulda have filed a libel against diamonds valued at $200,000, which they saved from the Oregon. After lecturing before the students of Oxford University the other evening Michael Davitt retired to rest in a room in one of the colleges. When he awoko the next morning he found that the door had been screwed up, and he was obliged to tie his’bedclothes together and make his exit by w r ay of the window. The committee in the German Reichstag which has under consideration Bismarck’s spirit monopoly bill, rejected the entire measure. Counterfeit coin to the amount of £500,001) has been put in circulation in Egypt. Heavy snowstorms are reported in the north of England and Scotland. Many railroad lines are blockaded. Two fatal cases of cholera are reported from Candia, two from Polia, and seven from Padua, Italy. A mob of the unemployed at Liege, Belgium, indulged in a riot which ceased only after a fight with the gendarmes. Several hundred persons were arrested. The Government of Russia has called a convention of scientists and engineers to take measures to develop the petroleum fields on the Caspian Sea and build up an export trade. Brigands in Sicily recently attacked a palace to capture and hold for ransom the great-grandson of Admiral Nelson. The servants rallied to the assistance of the young man, and four of the robbers were captured.

Emperor 'William’s health is completely restored. Political distrust in England makes traders uneasy and capital is timid. Bismarck is accredited with a design to sustain Mexican finance with a view of extending Germany’s colonial influence. Paris advices were to the effect that Russia had refused to join the other Powers in coercing Greece to comply with Turkey’s policy in the Balkan states, and that the Roumanian Minister to Russia had been recalled. Measures are being prepared by the Russian Government to practically restore to the nobles the control of affairs, and to expropriate the wealthiest Polish land-owner.i for the benefit of small tenants. Hope is about abandoned in Germany that a reconciliation with France could be effected by peaceful means, and the talk about war is more bitter and earnest than ever. The view- entertained appears to be that Germany has nothing to fear while Franco is isolated from other nations, and the introduction of the espionage bill in the French Chamber of Deputies seems to have added bitterness to the feeling agttnci that people.