Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1888 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

It is reported by cable that the Russian and Montenegrin Governments have concluded a treaty, according to the terms of which Montenegro, in the event of a liusso-Austrian war, will send 30,000 troops to Herzegovina to harass Austria, and Russia, if victorious, will give Cattaro to Montenegro. A dispatch from Warsaw says that the managers of railways at Warsaw, Granica, and Ivan-Gorod have received a military order directing them to accumulate without delay on each line 600,000 tons of coal Advices from Australia say that a tidal wave forty feet high, caused by a volcanic eruption, swept over New Britain in March, drowning seventeen members of the scientific expedition. The Russian Count Strogonoff and his sister, Princess Tscherbaotoff, with an escort of 150 men, have been captured in Asia Minor by a tribe of Kurd nomads who demand an immense ransom. Ihe Brazilian Senate has passed the I*lll abolishing slavery which was passed by the Chamber of Deputies last week. The election in the department of Isere to fill a vacancy in the Chamber of Deputies resulted in the return of M. Gaillard (Radical). The vote was as follows: Gaillard, 40.260; M. Giroid (Opportunist), 37,673; Gen Boulanger, 14,223. A Rome dispatch says that Archbishop Walsh’s words on his return to his diocese were that no Irish Bishop could rebel against the Pope’s decree, it being a question of faith and morality.. The Irish Bishops who assembled to examine the possible consequences of the decree have forwarded to the Propaganda certain observations on these points, and an attentive and dispassionate examination is also being made of the various utterances of members of the National League made with the object of rendering the decree of no effect. The London Standard, speaking of Lord Wolseley’s exposure of the army’s weakness, says his declarations, if true, are a reproach to a rich and powerful government The Times says Lord Wolseley’s defense was manly and straightforward. The royal families of Russia and Greece are to be more closely allied by the approaching marriage of Princess Alexandria, daughter of the Queen of Greece, and Grand Duke Paul, the Czar’s youngest brother

From London, Mr. Libouchere telegraphs to the New York World: “Private accounts of. Emperor Frederick are as bad as possible, and it is to be feared he cannot possibly live more than a few weeks. People about him are amazed that he lasts so long.” The second ballot for Paris municipal councillors resulted in favor of the republicans. Gen. Boulanger has completed his tour and has returned to Paris, says a dispatch from that city. A crowd met him at the depot and followed him to his hotel, uttering mingled cries of “Vive Boulanger” and “A baa Boulanger.” The General delivered s. speech at Hirson. He said the sole thought that was always before him was to make the French nation a united family, and he hoped to attain his object. The fraternal presence at the gatherings he had attended recently of representatives of all social elements proved that they were unanimous in desiring the greatness of the country and the triumph of the Republic. Forty Parnellites, including Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien, sat nine hours in the Dublin Court House discussing the Papal rescript. A sub-committee was appointed consisting of Messrs. D. Sullivan, T. D. Sullivan, O’Brien, Redmond, Healy and Harrington, with Messrs. Kenny and Clancy as secretaries, to draw up resolutions on the principles agreed to. The meeting prepared a manifesto to the following effect: That the allegations of fact which are put forth in the circular of the Holy Office are unfounded, and could not have been promulgated under the authority of the Holy Office if statements bo prejudicial to the Irish people had been tested by reference to the prelates of Ireland and the elected representatives of the people. That we repudiate the assumption on which the circular proceeds that the status of Irish farmers is that of more tenants at will, and assert that not only in equity but in law the dominant interest in the agricultural holdings of Ireland belongs to the tenants by whom the improvements have been executed; and we attribute much of the discontent which now prevails to the disregard of our constant protests against the imposition of rent on those improvements in defiance of the statute which tardily recognized a dual ownership in the soil. That we cannot refrain from expressing our deep regret as Catholics and Irishmen that the Holy Office is silent as to the source and provocation of the evils and disorders which afflict the people of Ireland. That the demand of tne people of Ireland for agrarian reform and political liberty is dictated by necessity, sustained by natural justice, and conducted by modes of action and methods of organization prescribed or allowed by the constitution under which we live. It is rumored in Berlin that an imperial rescript is about to be issued which is intended to prevent as far as possible Frenchmen from visiting Alsace-Lorraine, in reprisal for the obstacles placed in the way of Germans on the French side of the frontier.