Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Edward Harris, a wealthy solicitor of liOndon, Ontario, has fled to the American border, and is charged with financ al irregularities of the gravest character. Full quarantine has been ordered at Alexandria against all -arrivals from Austria and Italy, because of the increase of the cholera. In the French Chamber of Deputies a man supposed to be insane fired a revolver, the bullet passing close to the head of the President of the Chamber. A London dispatch says that Lord Salisbury lias proposed to Lord Hartington the formation of a coalition ministry, with a platform of local government for Ireland, Scotland, England, and the empowering of rural laborers to acquire small holdings of land. Such a ministry would include Mr. Gosclien, Sir Henry James, and the Duke of Argyll. The returns of the parliamentary elections received up to the 12th iust., show that the Conservatives have elected 289 candidates, Unionists 63, the Gladstouians 149, and tho Parnellites 72. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, who, with Mr. Chamberlain, resigned from the Cabinet to oppose Mr. Gladstone’s Irish policy, has been defeated as the Unionist candidate in Hawick for Parliament. At the last election Mr. Trevelyan was returned as a Liberal from Hawick without opposition. A St. Petersburg dispatch says Guillame Hermann AlAch, the distinguished naturalist, is dead, in the SStli year of his age. A number of German journalists have been indicted by the Government for breaches of the press law in publishing documents relating to the Sarauw case while it was on trial. The Vienna Tagblatt believes that Roumania and Bulgaria have concluded a secret alliance against Russian encroachment, Germany and Austria consenting. The Pope requested the congregation on extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs to examine attentively the whole Irish question, in order that he might determine upon tho course to be pursued by the Irish clergy in certaiu contingencies, M. de Lesseps has issued a spirited circular to the shareholders in the Panama Canal Company, in which he declares: “Despite all obstacles we shall march on. The apparatus and machinery are all ready. We only require $120,000,000 to complete the canal in 1889. We shall issue debentures forthwith, to enable France to complete her peacoful conquest of the Isthmus of Panama.” The company will issue fresh bonds to tho of 600,000,000 francs.