Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Archbishop Walsh warns the English Government that the difficulties in Ireland, already appalling, will he immensely increased if they persist in their attempts to convict prisoners by picked or packed juries, as was done at Sligo. A dispatch from Odessa says that the postilion and guard on the mail train from Ekaterinodar to Kaokaskai were murdered, and that 70,000 roubles of crown money was sto’en. By a collision between two steamers off Queensland forty-two persons wero drowned. The famous stallion‘Botherhill, fourteen years old, was recently purchased in England, on private terms, by D. Swigert, of Lexington, Ky. Mr. Gladstone does not approve of the Irish National League’s anti-rent campaign. At Southport, Eng., a lifeboat was wrecked while endeavoring to relievo a distressed vessel Thirteen persons were drowned. The United States Government has been officially invited to participate in an international exhibition which is to be held in Manchester, Eng., next year, to celebrato the jubilee year of her Britannic Majesty’s reign. The rents being paid by Irish farmers to the trustees of the National League have come in so rapidly that £53,000 will soon be 0:1 hand. Ralmond recently had a fainting fit, anl Dillon and O’Brien show traces of exhausting labor among the tenants. M. Goblet has succeeded in establishing a Ministry iii France. He will so low M. de Freycinei’s foreign policy, and will submit early next session bills for such internal reforms as the Chamber desire. General Boulanger has secured the acceptance of his own terms for supporting the Cabinet—a bill to reorganize tho army and to appropriate $60,000,000 for arms of the new model. It is not thought likely that the now Ministry will last long. The arming of the German army with repeating rifl is is being hastened, five corps having been already equipped. The Americans, Burton and Anderson, wero released from Metz, where they had beon confined for swindling, aud at once taken to Hamburg to answer tho charge of robbing the Imperial Bank of 200,000 marks eighteen months ago. Lord Salisbury says that it is nonsense to talk about the tenants in the west of Ireland being oppressed or badly used. Nobody seeks to compel them to pay rents beyond their ability. If they can’t pay they can go