Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Capt. Dudley and mate of the wrecked English yacht Mignonette, who killed a boy named Parker while on the wreck in order to eat the flesh, have been sentanced to death. The Secretary of State for the Homo Department advises the Queen to'respite them.... The Nihilist chief at St. Petersburg has issued a manifesto condemning to death the Minister of the Interior, Count Tolstoi..., .The Rt. Hon. Joseph YVarner Henley, ex-Privy Councilor of England, is dead’ . .Lord Dufferin, the new Viceroy of India, has been well received at Bombay. The condition of affaires in Spain is believed to bo worse than at any time since the killing of Gen. Prim in 1880. The situation is one of riots and conspiracies, trade is at a standstill, cholera is raging, the treasury is bankrupt, and a revolution is impending... .China will continue the war against France and will secure 15,000 re-enforcements. Premier Ferry has abandoned all hopes of a successful issue of the mediation between China and France.

A dispatch from Odessa, Russia, says : The Turkish atrocities in Macedonia are increasing. Two hundred Christians have beeu murdered within the past few weeks, and three villages burned. Kidnaping is common, and the inhabitants are afraid to leave their h0u5e5........ A panic has been caused on the Vienna Bourse by the suspension of the Bohemian Mortgage Company. .. .A deficit is shown by the Prussian budget of 22,000,000 marks. All Loudon was intensely alarmed the other day by an attempt to blow up London bridge with dynamite. The attempt, however, proved an utter failure, as far as the design to demolish the structure was concerned. About £SO worth of window-glass was broken in the vicinity. The bridge itself escaped without -injury. A strong force of police was put on guard, and others sent out to search for the parties who planhed the destruction of the bridge, but no arrests were made or clew discovered. Owing to the excitement and the. fear of a repetition of the explosion, traffic was suspended for a time. The English press is filled with indignation at the advance of German influence in Africa, as indicated by the publication of the German White Book, at the expense of Euglani’s interests, which, it is claimed, have beeu sacrificed by the indecisive action of Lord Granville... .Miss Fortescue, who was awarded a verdict of $50,000 against Lord Garmoyle for breach of promise, has been re-en-gaged to Mr. Quilter, whom 6he jilted for the nobleman... .The English Secretary of State for Home Affairs proposes to suppress prize fighting in the future... .The prospects of the Nile expedition for the relief of Gen. Gordon are not very encouraging, and it is now said that it cannot reach him before next week... .Unusually severe snow storms are reported in the Alpine regions of Switzerland... .The District Court of Zafingen, Canton Aargun, Switzerland, has fined and imprisoned two Mormon apostles, and forbidden them to enter the Canton for three years..... Louise Michel, .the French anarchist, will be released Jan. 1... .Mme. Colombier is serving a fortnight’s imprisonment for the authorship of “Sarah Barnum”... .A revolution in Corea is reported. ... .Nubar Pasha, Egyptian Prime Minister,'

threatens resignation. It is also reported that there is a movement to restore Ismail Pasha 1 to the throne... .The London Petroleum Association has refused to put Russian petroleum on the same footing with the American product.... The French Chamber of Deputies passed the naval estimates and recommended the building of cruisers and torpedo vessels, and the speedy completion of large men-of-war ... .The sentence of Captain Dudley and his mate, Stephens, of the wrecked English yacht Mignonette, who killed the boy Parker in the boat to keep themselves alive, has been oommuted from hanging to six months’ imprisonment. /