Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Messrs. Short, East India merchants, of London and Birmingham, have failed. Ihe French-German war-cloud still hovers threateningly over Europe. * At the dinner given in London by the labor members of Parliament Mr. Gladstone declared his entire disbelief in the ac-cu-ation against the Irish leaders. He said that in May, 1882, immediately after the assassination in Phoenix Park, Parnell wrote him a letter and offered to place himself, without reserve, in Gladstone’s hands, apparently foreseeing that he would be associated with that crime. He wrote that ho regarded the murders with the utmost abhorrence, and offered to resign the leadership of the Irish party and retire altogether from political life if Gladstone considered such a step advisable in the interests of Ireland. A heavy snow-storm prevailed in Scotland and Wa e< oa the 26th of April Seven Turkish soldiers have been massacred by religious fanatics in Albania. Germany admits that the arrest of Scbnaebels was irregular. The Swiss State Council has ratified the copyright convention with the United States. The new Russian loan has been subscribed to the extent of two milliards of rubles. The English poet, Swinburne, publishes a hundred-line poem denouncing Gladstone’s Irish policy. The following reference to the ex-Premier is sent by cable across the water: The hoary henchman of the gang Lifts hands that never dew nor rain May cleanse from Gordon’s blood again. Grand helmsman of the clamorous crew, The good gray recreant quakes and weeps To think that crime no longer creeps Safe to its end, that murderers, too, Muy die when mercy sleeps. The German Government has ordered the release of M. Schnaebeles. It is understood that the French Government will place him on the retired list An agent of the Irish Woolen Manufadturing and Exporting Company recently organized by Messrs. Parnell, Davitt, and other National Leaguers has sailed for America to develop trade for the new company. The Petit Journal, of Paris, has just declared a dividend of 19 per cent on its last ye ir’s business. The profits for 1886 amounted to over SI,000,0.x). The Pope will shortly send out an encyclical letter on the land question in which, it is sad, he will unreservedly denounce the theories of Henry George. M. Scbnaebels, released from a German prison, has been enthusiastically received by his countrymen, and is likely to be retired on a pension. William O’Brien, the pugnacious editor of Imited Ireland, has started from Queenstown for Canada, where he proposes to make things interesting for Lord Lansdowne. France is still hot over the prospect of a war with Germany, and Germany is making preparations for the conflict by large financial appropriations for strategic railways, barracks, and hospitals, and for increasing the efficiency of the army. , -