Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

THEParnell'party has issued to.the electors of Great Britain and Ireland a manifesto charging the Liberals with having violated their pledges to Erin, and urging that only such Liberals or Radicals as are listed by the branches of the Nationalists’ Society should be supported for Parliaments It has been arranged to distribute the manifesto at the church doors throughout Ireland... .It is said that France lias resolved to ..terminate the Madagascar expedition, peace negotiations having been commenced with the Hovas....The steamship Iberian, a British vessel, is ashore is Dunmanus Bay, Ireland. She will be a total loss. Her cargo is worth $200,000 It is reported from London that the Powers are about to interfere to stop the bloodshed in the Balkans. Rktt'enk of the Parliamentary elections in Great Britain leave little doubt that 1 Mr, Gladstone’s party is defeated, and that Mr. Parnell is the author of the defeat. The Tories have gained in all the boroughs where the Irish had the castjng vote. The Celtic “ sovereign citizens’’obeyed implicitly their leader’s manifesto It may be that the Tories will not have a majority in the next Parliament, but they will with the support of Mr. Parnell, who is virtually “master of the situation.” The election of his ablest literary lieutenant, Mr. T. P. O’Connor. for an English constituency (Liverpool) marks a new departure—a very significant one, too —in British, politics. Among the well-known people returned to Parliament are the Rt. Hon. David R. Plunkett, First Commissioner of Works under the Conservative Cabinet; Mr. E. T. Holmes, Attorney General for Ireland, also under the Conservative Cabinet; Thomas Burt, labor candidate; the Right Hon. George Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland under Mr. Gladstone’s administration; Col. F. A. Stanley, Colonial Secretary in the Conservative Cabinet; the Right Hon. Henry CtimpbelL Bannerman, Chief Secretary for Ireland' Under Mr. Gladstone’s administration; Mr. Justin McCarthy, the novelist; Sir Charles Dilke and Ashmead Bartlett

The main body of the Servian troops has been expelled from Bulgaria. King Milan is preparing for a final stand against the victorious Prince Alexander.. . .Gen. Jovanoviteh, late commander of the Danube division of the Servian army, to whose disobedience of orders is attributed the —recent disasters from Slivnitza to Saribrod, and who was dismissed, has committed “suicide Iu a nationalist convention at Drogheda, Ireland, Mr. Callan demanded the reason of Mr. Parnell’s objections to his re-elec-tion to Parliament, and was promptly informed that it was his drunkenness in the House of Commons. Mr. Callan admitted the charge, and vainly appealed to the electors against a packed convention.... The Allan line steamer Buenos Ayres carried small-pox from Montreal to Glasgow, where she has been quarantined. A number of Carlist chiefs are making preparations for a Carlist rising in Spain. ....Marshal Serrano, the well-known Spanish General and statesman, died in Madrid, aged 75.... Caceres, the Peruvian revolutionary General,has defeated the Government troops, and is reported to be marching on Lima. Cable dispatches report that the entire army of Bulgaria attacked the Servians on the 27th of November and was repulsed with heavy loss by artillery fire. Large * bodies of Servian, troops were hurrying to the front. AViddin was still under bombardment. A rumor was sent out from Vienna that King Milan had secretly visited that city to secure assistance from the Emperor.

The Tory organs ins London deny that there is an understanding between the leaders of that party and Mr. Parnell. This is held to indicate that the Tories feel strong enough to he independent of the Irish vote in Parliament. Mr. Parnell’s late manifesto is said to have saved the Tories at least a dozen seats. A cable dispatch of ult. says: The election returns show a Coeservative gain of 80, against a Liberal gain of 36. The political situation indicates that the Conservatives will remain in power It now seems impossible for Mr, Gladstone’s party to secure that majority of members in the next Parliament which Lord Salisbury ha,s declared necessary to prove that the British people desire a change in the government. Gladstone is English above nil things. He has it iu his power to deprive Parnell of all the' benefits on which he~ counts, in the control of a solid Irish party. .... Dispatches received at Vienna state that the Bulgarian garrison at Widin made a sortie, hut was repulsed after desperate lighting, in which, many bayonets were crossed and hand-to-hand struggles occurred. The slaughter was heavy on both sides. A severe battle was fought at Pirot, in which the Bulgarians forced the Servians to retire at the point of the and captured that town. The Porte has telegraphed to Prince Alexander asking him to, stop the advance of the Bulgarian army in Servia.... The element of uncertainty still exists regarding the future of Spain. A state of siege has been'declared in a large portion of the country, and outbreaks of Revolutionists and Carlists are looked for at various points np the frontier, if not in Madrid also. It is thought, however, . that the military at the disposal of Gen. Campos will be able to cope with any rising that may take place:, ..The steamship City of

Pekin, arrived at San Francisco, brings advices that the steamer Greyhound, Captain C. W. Sieder, trading between Hong Kong- and Pakhoi, started from Hong Kong Oct. 17 with 120 passengers and a general cargo. About seventy miles from thaj port about forty apparently innocent passengers suddenly opened fire on the crew. The captain was killed and the crew were battened down in the hold. The pirates held the vessel nine hours and escaped with SIO,OOO in plunder. .Under insiructions from the War Office in London, preparations are being made at Alexandria and Cairo for a new expedition to-Dongola, comprising about 6,500 men.