Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The papal allocution delivered at the consistory in Rome, arrhigns the Italian Government for various sins of commission and omission, and renews the protest against its occupation of the city of Rome. His Holiness says the difficulties with France have been increased by French obstruction. and that the negotiations with Prussia have proved fruitless, nptwith standing the conciliatory attitude of the In the British House of Commons a petition a mile and a half long, and containing 500,000 signatures, was presented, urging the passage of a law for the protection of young girls... .Sixty Russian criminals, while eu ibute to Siberia, made a break for liberty.,. .Twenty were killed by the soldiers, and thirty of the survivors made their escape. Two soldiers were wounded.... Subscriptions to the Egyptian loan of $45,000,000 have been closed. They aggregated four times the amount desired. .... Severe storms, attended by great loss of life and property, have prevailed recently in the southern provinees-pFFrance. ... .Said Pasha, Turkey’s Grand Vizier, is, becoming insane. A Native soldier at .Bombay, having been reported for misconduct, took his revenge by shooting and killing two sergeants, after which he murdered his wife, and ended the tragedy by firing a bullet into his own brain... .A German officer has been arrested as a spy by the Russian authorities of Jacobstadt, on the Baltic. Documents proving the character of his mission a:e said to Have been found upon bis person. ... .A Dublin dispatch states mat the Registrar General's quarterly return estimates the present population of Ireland at 4,094,342. ' i The two political parties in England are reported as much divided, the attitude of several of the leaders toward the ParneHites being the cause of the division. Lord Randolph Churchill has been severely criticised by the Tories for his efforts to conciliate Parnell and secure him as an ally. Nearly all the provincial Tory election agents have sent remon- ' strances to the Marquis of Salisbury, the. Premier, and the result has been that Churchill has agreed to submit more closely ito party discipline. He ha?. ho,wever, sei cured the consent of his more aged party

managers to advocate a policy embracing local government reform and reform in the British land laws. It is piedicted that in time he will form :i coalition with Purnell and Chambeilaiu, and aim- to become a leader independent of Conserve-, lives and Tories. In the Liberal party the more advanced; I '.Radicals are urging ths adoption of a p’atform Which shall embrace the disestablishment of the church in England and Scotland, home rule for Ireland, and a reform of the feudal land system. In the meantime the Pameliites are industriously carrying out their policy of aggression,.and ate. pb paling to invade English and Scotch constituencies.