Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Parnell party has issued to the electore of Great Britain and Ireland a manifesto charging the liberals with having violated their pledges to Erin, and urging that only such Liberals or Eadicais as are listed by the branches of the Nationalists’ Society' should be supported for Parliament. It has been arranged to distribute the manifesto at the church doors throughout Ireland... .It is said that France has resolved to terminate the Madagascar expedition, peace negotiations having been commenced with the PTovas.... The steamship, a Iberian British vessel, is ashore is Dunmanus Bay, Ireland. She will be a total loss. Her cargo is worth $200,000..... It is repoted from London that the Powers are about to interfere to stop the bloodshed in the Balkans. The evidence accumulates that the English Liberals are formulating a scheme for the creation of an Irish Parliament, by which the authority of the Crown and the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament are to be secured... .The Bank of England has advanced the rate of discount from 3to 4 per cent. ... Heavy snows are reported in the south of Italy... .By the recent cyclone at Aspmwall fifteen vessels sunk with their crews. " 'rt' . v Dispatches from. jSt. Petersburg an-, bounce a terrible dynamite explosion at the Pleijuehin Mine in Siberia. Several hun- r

dred persons are said to have been killed, but advices even as to the location of the mine are indefinite... .William Sheehan was convicted es the murder of his mother, brother, and 6ister in the County Cork, Ireland in 1877, and sentenced to be hanged Jan. 20... .Information from Koa Chung, in the province of Kwong Tung, China, states thflt a war has broken out between the neighboring villages of Ko and Ju, in which both villages have become almost exterminated, and nearly 400 people were burned jlive in one of the sacred temples. Not a house in either village is left standing, and two-thirds of the inhabitants are dead.