Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Rev. William Robinson Pirie, Crown Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, is dead. For over forty years he had been identified with all the important political movements which have agitated Scotland... .Russia is exercising a rigorous press censorship, and telegraph facilities are practically denied to correspondents. In St. Petersburg war with Austria is regarded as certain, and Bulgaria in all probability will be the scene of operations.... The Most Rev. Patrick Doman, D. t>., Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor, is dead... .Mr. Justin McCarthy has been selected to contest Londonderry for Parliament in the Nationalist interest. During a meeting of the Young Men’s Christian Society at Plymouth, England, the Canadian Emigration Commissioner, named Jay, denounced Rev. Stuart Ross for having eloped with his wife. The clergyman left the room and was pursued by his auditors for nearly a mile, when he turned and stabbed two of those nearest him. He has been lodged in jail. It is alleged he abandoned a wife and three childdren in Belfast, amLfled with Mrs. Jay.... It is asserted that Prince Alexander of Bulgaria is collecting a fleet preparatory to an attack upon Belgrade, the capital of Servia, by way of the Danube river. Excitement over the situation in Servia is intense. ....A number of persons have been arrested in Belgrade, in Servia, on charge of conspiring to overthrow the Government. It is supposed to have included a plan for the assassination of King Milan The Depew-Grant letter concerning Andrew Johnson’s plan for controlling the Government is said to be attracting much attention in England. There the newspapers accept the facts as historical and treat the matter with corresponding gravity. ... .Mr Stead, the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, and Mrs. Jarrett were found guilty of the abduction of Eliza Armstrong, out of which grew the paper’s expose of London scandal. Mr. Stead’s friends are indignant. ~ The Social Purity Association maintain their full faith in Mr. Stead, and ’ argue that he did nothing but his duty. Bishop Southwell also supports him.... A bitter controversy has arisen in England and Scotland on the question of disestablishing the church, to which scheme no less than 480 Liberal candidates for Parliament are pledged. An address to Mr. Gladstone, signed by 1,470 dissenting Scotch clergymen, declares that they look to him tosever the relations between the church and the state... .Irish workingmen are forming a society for the purpose of keeping out of that country all goods of British manufacture, with the exception of such articles as Ireland is unable to produced Michael Davitt gives the movement his warm approval.... The Russian wheat harvest is reported as above the average for winter wheat, but be-

low the average for spring wheat. The total production is given as 36,000,000 quarters, 20 per cent below the usual yield. .... The United States Consul at Palermo reports 2,000 deaths from cholera in that city up to Oct. 12, and that over 60,000 persons had fled from the epidemic, .(.. Ludwig Hansen, a banker of Copenhagen, surrendered himself to the' police, stating that he had unlawfully disposed of moneys intrusted to his keeping to the amount of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 kronen... .President Grevy, of France, refused to accept the resignations of his Ministry... In a battle between rebels and Abyssinians the former lost 6,000 and the latter 1,500 men.