Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The creditors of the eccentric and extravagant King of Bavaria are trying to levy on the goods and property of the royal household... .M. Grevy has received the congratulations of all the European Powers on his election to the Presidency of the French Kepublic... .Pasteur, of Paris, has eradicated all symptoms of hydrophobia from the Newark children sent across the Atlantic by charitable people, and he has inoculated Messrs. Kauffman and Sattler, also from New Jersey... .Mr. William E. Gladstone celebrated his 76th birthday at Hawarden on the 29th ult. At dawn he walked to the village church, despite falling sleet and snow, and attended special .serviceSr -He-received many congratulatory telegrams and letters.... The Whig peers of England, beaded by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Hartington, announce their determination to make a hot fight agaiilst Gladstone’s home rule measures for Ireland. The chief point on which Gladstone and his late colleagues differ is whether there shall be two chambers of Parliament or one local Legislature. The Spanish Government does not desire to grant England's request to be allowed to~ establish a coaling-station in the Caroline Islands... .Lieut. Gen. Stephehson, commander of the British forces in Egypt, attacked and routed a largeforce of Arabs near the*village of Koseh, The fight lasted three hours. There was the customary annual pilgrimage to Gambetta’s tomb on New Year’s Day ... The English Government will oppose the revival of the channel tunnel bill. ....Mr. Gladstone received 1,000 letters and telegrams of congratulation on his ljirthday.... The Pope has sold $106,000 of personal presents and donated the proceeds to the College of the Propaganda... .T. D. Sullivan, Dublin's new Lord Mayor, was installed with great ceremony on New Year’s Day.... A number of Liberal members of Parliament have, it is said, requested Mr. Parnell to formulate the demand of the Home Buie party, with a view to negotiations for a coalition. Mr. Parnell stated pretty plainly during' ,tbe recent campaign what he and bis colleagues wanted, and in a recent letter admonished the Nationalists that their cue was to play a “waiting game,” and make no move until events so shaped themselves as to call for definite action. He will doubtless ' adhere to this programme, and refuse to enter into auv negotiations with either Salisbury or Gladstone for the present, leaving himself free to go to the party which, when the proper time arrives, makes toerhighest bid for his support, ..“waiting game’ ! ‘is still the wisdom of toe situation for Mr. Parnell. » ’ey. Welsh crofters are organizing on Mir. Parnell’s plan,'and are united and'powerful. .. .The defeated Arabs are reported to have recovered from their reoent thi ashing, and to be preparing to resume the .offensive. v .Bismarck has withdrawn his opposition to toe proposed marriage of Alexander of Bulgaria and the daughter of the Crown Prince of Germany.... The Liberal party is falling to pieces over

the Irish question. The Tories are well to the front in British polittos, and their leaders are so eertain of their strength that they are preparing to present a government programme at the opening of Parliament. ... .A reduction of the army of Peru to 3,000 men has beenordered..... .Analarming increase of hydrophobia is reported from France.... The four children from Newark, N. J., who have been under the treatment of M. Pasteur, sailed from Havre for New York last week.... Arrangements are in progress for a meeting of the Emperors of Germany and Austria and the Czar, during the maneuvers of the Austrian army in Galicia the coming summer. -q