Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Australia has 90,000 tons of wheat available for export... .At the request of the Panama Canal Company, the French Government will send M. Rousseau to inspect the cut, preliminary to advancing sufficient money to complete the work or dropping the scheme into oblivion. .... Gladstone's bill is to give Ireland a National Ministry and an Assembly elected by the people, incorporating O’Connor’s plan for a Viceroy, who would most likely be the Duke of Connaught, a favorite in the Green Isle A telegram has been received by the French War Office from Gen. de Courcy, commander of the forces in Tonquin, which says that during the latter part of December the inhabitants of Ughoan, a town in Annam, destroyed the Catholic missionhouse at that place and killed 500 native Christians. Prompt punishment was intiicted by a column of French troops. Mr. John Mokley, a prominent Liberal member of Parliament, has made a speech in which he says the Irish question must be taken up boldly, and declares practically that the Irish element must be taken out-of the British Parliament. His views attract attention, as he is known to be a close friend of Mr. Chamberlain.... At a meeting in Glasgow, attended by 6,000 unemployed persons, resolutions were passed appealing to the wealthier classes for assistance .... Servia in a note to Bulgaria proposes the appointment of a commission to . negotiate terms of peace to meet at Vienna. Mandalay, the capital of Burmah, is said to be threatened bv a force of 10,000 natives, who are not satisfied with the absorption of their country by the British.

. Prince Charles of Monaco has driven the Jesuits from his domain because they published a list of the suicides at the Monte Carlo gaming-tables... .Pere Hyacinthe has written a letter in advocacy of the abolition of the French Presidency in favor of a consulate... .The Greek- Government has made overtures to Montenegro looking to the formation of an alliance both offensive and defensive. Prince Bismarck warns Greece that if she engages in war with Turkey she will do so at her own risk. . The Pall Mall Gazette figures up the precise effect of the extension of the franchise in the United Kingdom.. The common idea, which was mere guesswork, was that it would add 2,000,000 of new voters. The number of registered electors in 1880 was 3,038,726, and is now 5,711,920, showing an increase Of 2,673,194. This raises England from the fifth to the fourth place among —■ ... —* ** V ■

European countries in this respect. The percentage of electors to population iu France is 26.8, in Switzerland 22.5, in Germany - 20.09, and in England 16.3. England thus ip not yet ns democratic as she might be, which leads the- Gazette to remark: “This interesting fact is another, instance of the advantage that it so often is in politics, that the thickness of the other end of a wedge is not always visible at the time. Mr. Gosehen and others were terribly nervous, as it was, at the prospect of adding 2,000,000 new voters to the rolls; they might have caught their death of fright had they known that the number would be 3,000,000.”