Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Cornwall, the English Secretary of the Irish Postoffice, has been returned for trial on four different: charges of immoral and felonious practices. .Mild forms of cholera have appeared at St Petersburg and towns in Russia. The trial of dynamiters at Warwick, England, resulted in a sentence of penal servitude for life for John Daly and a term of twenty years for James Egan. McDonnell pleaded guilty to treason-felony, and was released on bail, Daly admitted having buried nitro-glycerine in his garden.... Sixty-five pounds of dynamite were stolen from a magazine near Glasgow, Scotland. The thieves are not known, and some alarm prevails.... Henri Latibe, the German poet and litterateur, died at Vienna, aged 78 years. ....A panic prevails at Foo Choo, owing to the belief that war between China and France is considered inevitable. John Morley, the English Radical member of Parliament, said at a recent

political meeting in London in reference to the House of Lords: “We must end it or mend it. ” This is the motto of the English Radicals in their crusade against the House of Peers.... Mr. Gladstone, in annquncing the failure of the Egyptian conference, stated that, while the delegates agreed upon the necessity for a fresh loan, France refused to asßent to any diminution of dividends under the law of liquidation... .It is announced that the breach between Parnell and Davitt has been temporarily closed. The English journals, however, expect that Davitt will make trouble for the Pamellites at the time of the general election.