Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Bismarck has a new project for bettering the condition of the workingmen and counteracting the influence of the Socialists among them. He proposes the establishment of trade committees in all the German manufacturing centers, with a view to regulating the labor supply according to the demand, and ascertaining where labor can ba best employed... radlaugh has opened out en Gladstone in his most savage style, denouncing the Government and accusing it of having betrayed its trust by meekly surrendering to the Lords while pretending to have won a practical victory.... In the Congo Conference, in session at Berlin, John A. Kasson, the American Minister to Germany, announced'that Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, had been appointed technical delegate to the conference for America... .The German Reichstag was opened Nov. 20, with the usual formalities. The Emperor, in the course of his speech, spoke of the continued accord between Germany and France l . Peace negotiations between France and China.have been suspended, and a couple of Chinese ironclads will be sent to force the French blockade of Formosa. Admiral Courbet, of the French forces remains at Kelung, unable to advance. In tfee ’Celebrated Adams-Coleridge libel suit-st-London, the jury returned a verdict Jf £3, COO for the plaintiff, which the court overruled and gave a verdict for the defendant... .Small-pox is spreading rapidly among the English and Egyptians at Dofigola, and interferes with Gen. Wolseley's expedition

The panic in Paris over the prevalence of cholera is subsiding as the disease gradually disappears.... Henry George, the land reform agitator,, proposes to visit the Isle of Skye anjd address the crofters oh their land troubles.. , .The Radicals attack Gladstone for compromising with his political opponents on pending questions in Parliament It is said that Gladstone will accept a peerage after the passage of the franchise bi 11.... .The British Government proposes to borrow £25,000,000 for the restoration of the navy It is reported that Germany proposes to annex several islands in the Pacific Ocean, as well as a part of New Guinea.