Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

John Dillon pleaded his own case in a Dublin court, claiming that the language he used in his speeches was justifiable. The Judge thought differently, and ordered him to give bond for £3,000 for good behavior in the future or go to jail for six months. The Belgian Government has sanctioned the holding of an international industrial and scientific exhibition in Brussels. The English Court of Appeal has quashed the verdict for £5,0J0 obtained by Cyrus W. Field against James Gordon Bennett, on the ground that the latter is not even a resident of Great Britain. M. N. Droze, a Radical, has been elected President of Switzerland for 1887. Reports from British Consuls in America on American homestead laws are about to be published. They agree in praising the operation of the laws, and favor the application to England of the principle of the exemption of personal property to a limited extent from sale under a legal process. Merlatti completed, at Paris, his fifty-day last in good condition, aud was given a small quantity of wine before his food. All Germans and Poles employed on railways in Russian Poland are to be dismissed at the beginning of the year. Fred Archer’s blooded stock has been sold, realizing £3,585.

The annual report of the Irish Land Commission shows that there ha, been an average reduction of 24 per cent in the price of land, and that in Connaught the reduction amounts to 28 per cent A large company of Kerry moonlighters have been sentenced at Cork to eighteen months’ imprisonment. The Irish Executive has formally proclaimed the anti-rent campaign. The funds of the league have been transferred to France, and rent moneys deposited with trustees will be secreted. France, Germany, Russia, and Turkey are declared by the Journal des Debate, Paris, to be in accord on the Bulgarian matter. Presumably Austria has the benefit of England’s “moral support” ae against the four powers named , Opinions are now considerably divided as to the pro pects of a great European war. B.smarck, however, is determined that Germany shall be prepared for the worst Emperor William is quoted as being desirous of peace, and, it is said, he has written the Czar asking his forbearance from any policy that will precipitate a European war.