Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Greece and Servia are negotiating an alliance against Bulgaria... .A bill for the flogging of dynamiters will be presented in the British Parliament at an early day.. .. . The debts of the King of Bavaria are 15,000,000 marks. The members of the Cabinet will resign, because they have been forbidden to interfere with the exchequerA London paper says that the British Government will introduce a bill in Parliament abolishing the office of Viceroy of Ireland, and that it is the knowledge of this fact that induces the Earl of Carnarvon to resign the Lord Lieutenancy. s The British Parliament opened on the 12th inst., after the vaults of both houses had been thoroughly searched for traces of a Guy Fawkes plot. Arthur Wellesley Peel was re-elected. Speaker of the Commons. Bradlaugh was permitted to take the oath. It is rumored that the Cabinet has resolved to punish Irish obstructive tactics by the reintroduction of the crimes act.

A high sheriff in Ireland has written to the London Times that a famine is approaching. with the lawless acts necessarily incident thereto. The Lord Lieutenant reports that he can only relieve starving people by sending them to, the work-house, but he hopes to receive sufficient contributions to enable poor people to remain in their homes. A crowd of laborers at Lismore invaded the room of the Board of Guardians and demanded assistance, threatening to plunder the neighborhood.... Japan has recently effected a change, by forming a responsible Cabinet, ■with one of the'members as President. A department controlling mails, railways, and telegraphs has been established.., .At Listowel, Ireland, four disguised men stopped a mailcar, drew a revolver on the driver, and searched’the mail-bags for writs.... John Magee has been sentenced by a London court to seven years’ penal servitude for an attempt to blackmail the Prince of Wales. .... The Coreans have decided to build three hundred miles of telegraph, to connect with the cable at Nagasaki. Japan... ,M. Sagola, a banker of Calais, France, has suspended* pavment on obligations aggregating $3,rob.ooo. " The name of the American expelled from Gjennes, Prussia, is Hinrichsen. lie is 29 years of age. He spent thirteen years in/ Aquerica and has resided with his parents, since June last, at Gjennes. He tia? appealed to the American minister.... The Irish, Times, a Dublin loyalist organ, predirts that the outcome of the present situation’in Ireland will be the abolition of the Lard Lieutenantcy, the functions of that office to

become a part of the. duties of the President of the local governing board... .It is said that the British Government proposes to re-enact the clauses "of the crimes act relating to boycotting, and the parts providing for impartial trials and crushing out of terrorism in IrelandA dispatch from, Belgrade says the Servian Government refuses to disband its forces, on the ground that it desires tote protected against surprises .... Prince Leopold, of Prussia, has offered marriage to Princess Victoria, of Wales... .Joseph Maas, the tenor opera singer, is dead... .The treaty of peace between France and Madagascar has been ratified. ■>