Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A London dispatch of the 2d inst. says: “All the manufacturing districts in the counties contested to-day and so far as heard from, have returned liberals, and reduced the conservative gains to fortyseven, with nine constituencies to hear from, all of which are claimed to have gone against the conservatives. The actual- corrected official returns give the liberal majority up to midnight at thirty-qjm, seats, sixty-two votes oh* a- division. The Conservatives require seventy-five more net gains to beat, as against forty-seven pet gains in all since the election commenced. Unless, something extraordinary occurs the Tories, therefore, cannot possibly have a majority. A Liberal Cabinet is consequently assured if Gladstone will lake office, unless a sudden revolution should take place in the unpolled constituencies.” ‘ ■ The United States Consul to Samoa writes that a new island, two miles in length, has appeared in the ocean forty miles off the Tonga Islands, bearing toward Fiji... The King of Burmah personally surrendered himself to Gen. Prendergast, commander of the British invading force, and has' arrived in British 'territory .... Turkish troops are entering Eastern Roumelia. A council of Turkish Generals was held, and it advjsed the permanent occupation of the Balkans by Turkey. Two vert singular elections are reported from Ireland. In Clare the Pamellite was Jeremiah Jordan, a Methodist attorney

of Fermanagh, Ulster. He was elected by a majority of 7,595 out of a total of 8,167. In Fermanagh young Redmond, a Catholic Pamellite, ,was elected by a majority of 443 in a vote’ of 6,000. Clare is the most Catholic count}' in Ireland. The division of Fermanagh, where Redmond was elected, has a Protestant majority <jf 500 on the regis’tiy. Queen Victoria personally invested Lady Randolph Curchill with the insignia of the imperial order of the Crown of India. The recipient of the honor is a daughter of Leonard W. Jerome, a famous stock operator in New York in the days before the war.