Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

M. De Lesseps has arrived in Berlin, it is stated, for the purpose of securing Germany’s assistance in neutralizing the Suez Canal. A cablegram from Paris announces the marriage of Christine Nilsson to Count Miranda. In the arsenal at Belfast, France, two persons were killed and ten injured by an explosion of melinite. The Egyptian Minister of the Interior has resigned on account of scandalous real-estate transactions. On account of the difficulty of forming a new cabinet, the King of Italy refuses to accept the resignations of the present Ministers, who are promised a formal vote of approval by the Chamber. Mr. "Wilkinson, correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, was arrested at Cracow as a Russian spy, and imprisoned for twelve hours. The French Chamber of Deputies has approved of the bill to imp. se a duty of 5 francs per lalo on whegt imported. It is reported that the Russian Government lias invited the Powers to join in a proteit to the Bulgarian Reg-nts agains; the crue ties practiced on the insurgent prisoners. It is asserted by tlfe London Telegraph that the Russian Government has certain British naval designs that were sold by Terry, the draughtsman recently discharged from the Chatham yard. The septenate bill passed the German Reichstag without debato by a vote of 227 to 31. Eighty-four members abstained from voting. The announcement of tho passage of the bill was received with applause. AU the Conservatives and National Liberals and a few Oenterists voted with the majority. The minority was composed of new German Liberals, Socialists, and Alsatians. V