Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1881 — Foreign. [ARTICLE]

Foreign.

That S&n Diego Tichborne is a fraud, at least so his neighbors say. The Mexican government proposes to establish a National bank. Thirty thousand nail-makers in Staffordshire, England, have struck for 30 per cent, higher wages. There are no prospects ol a good English harvest, and doubts are' entertained of even an average one. A Paris dispatch reports the appearance of a new and terrible contagion resembling leprosy at Toulouse. The Journal de St. Petersburg officially denies the report that Russia intends to act belligerently towards China. It is believed that the negotiations between France and England foi a new commercial treaty will fall through. This j ear the emigration from Sweden to America will reach 70,000, which is about one-sixtieth of the entire population. At the attack of Alegian insurgents on the Spanish faction, at Saida, 100 were massacred, and 400 wounded and taken prisoners. Spain has fallen on prosperous times, which is proved by an improvement in internal affairs and a large diminution in the national debt. Further particulars of the electric railway of Siemens and Halske, the inventors, tried in the suburb of Berlin, state it to be a success. *

A report from Piedra? Negras states that several American engineers have been killed in Mexico in consequence of disputes regarding right of way. Ennis, the policeman, who killed a farmer, named Maloney during a writ riot near Dublin, has been committed for trifl on the charge of murder. Russia thinks that if England can protest against the action qf Fenians in America, something should be done by European powers to limit the conspiracies of excited Nihilists. The German authorities are taking measures to hinder the large emigration from the fatherland. A bill with this object is to be introduced into the next session of the Reichstag. McAuliffe, a process server who gave evidence against the president of a local land league, was shot dead at his residence near Castle Island, County Kerry, Ireland, Tuesday evening. In the Henley regatta, which commenced Thursday, the Cornell crew were “a bad third” in the race for the Steward’s Cup. The Americans are said to row in a cramped, jerky, slow style. Bon Amaua, tho rebel chief of Oran, Algeria, is said by spies to have murdered the French soldiers captured by him, and spared only thirty-three of the Spaniards whom he took prisoners near Baida. The Right Rev. Dr. Nulty, Bishop of Meath, Ireland, speaking atMultlfour-' ham, indorsed the Land League and desired them to pay the expenses of evicted persons with the aid of the Irish Americans.

Spain is discussing the question of free trade versus protection. The protectionists, at a meeting held in Barcelona, pointed to the flourishing condition of the United States as a powerful argument in their favor. A Montenegrin officer, who went to the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, to obtain an audjence of the Princess of Montenegro and was refused that honor, stabbed the officer on duty, whereupon another officer shot the Montenegrin dead. The leaders of the Black Division of Nihilism informed the government in their letter that it was unnecssary for them to repeat their criminal enterS rises, as the measures of the new Holsters were fast driving the country into revolution. A land-slide is in progress above Lake Tburn, Canton of Berne, Switz* erlaud. On the land are meadows and bouses, and the whole is gradually sliding into the lake. In the Canton oi Orisons 1,300 sheep with their shepherds were overwhelmed by an avalanche.

A St, Petersburg correspondent asserts .that the policy of the present Russian Ministry is to show that the milder rule of the Melikoff Government was a failure. To do this they pretended to discover plots and conspiracies to alarm the Czar and to intimidate and.coerce the journals. At |darseilles, two oil mills and a manufactory where Italians were employed, have been incendiarized. Damage estimated at 6,000,000 francs. At Turin, Messina, and Milan antiFrench demonstrations were made, which were quelled by the military. Colonel Oregon, who was commissioned by the Mexican Government to inquire into the cause ot the Moreles Bridge disaster, has reported that the sole cause was the defective construction of the bridge. Collections are being made in the City of Mexico' for the relief of the sufferers. At Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a festival of German students was interrupted by Czechs, and, in the course

mote stabbing oeeurred. This interne* quarrel will no doubt spread throughout Bohemia. The Constantinople court which triad the persons implicated in the murder of Abdul Asia, the late Sultau of Turkey, havepaased sentence of death upon Midhat, Mahmoud and Nouri Pashas, Fahri Bey, All Bey, Nedjib Bey, Hadji Mehmer, Mustapha “the wrestler,” and Mustapha ‘Hhe gardener.” Izxet Pasha and Zyda Pasha received ten years* penal servitude. Thu Canadas have lost 120,000 inhabitants by emigration to the United States during the last year, and now there is an effort making to induce the Irish people, who are determined to flee from the oppressions inflicted upon them by the English landlords, to locate on Canadian soil. To thin end, Sir John MacDonald, who is iu London, is turning his persuasive powers. He hopes to reach theoar of the Irish peasantry, and secure a favorable consideration mainly through the influence of the Catholio priesthood.