Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Father Curci, the Jesuit, having recanted his views concerning the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, has been taken into favor by his superiors. The Pope has sent him an autograph letter, and the Archbishop .of Florence has invited him to preach....A. M. Sullivan, one of the leaders in the home-rule movement in Ireland, has just died in j Dublin, aged 54 years. For many years he j was editor of the Nation. He served a ! term in prison for a political offense.... The French forces are pushing their advantages in Tonquin. The French, commanders find that there are many European officers in the Celestial army. Six .officers of the Russian army were executed at St. Petersburg for political offenses, and also two women, one of whom was the daughter of a priest The French have gained another victory in Tonquin, and 450 Chinese were killed”.. .The publication of the correspondence on the conference which Bismarck called together on the Congo question has caused a sensation and created such an alarm that the English Government has published plans for , the strengthening of colonial defenses.....

Lord Randolph Churchill has described Sir William Harcourt as “a bravo with the spirit* of a flunkey,” Sir Charles Dilke as “a renegade Democrat,” and Mr.’ Chamberlain as "a pinchbeck'Robespierre,”. .. HesseHelfmau, the imprisoned Nihilist, has become graving'maniac. The cause is said to be the taking away from her of heY child for an infraction of the prison rules, who hire since died.... The elections. in regulted largelT 3 - in favor of the Liberals, who now claim that the education act has been condemned by the people Most the English shipyards nre closed, and there is great distress among the laborers. '