Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — GOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

GOREIGN.

When a member of the British House of Commons accepts any office under the Crown, he vacates his seat by that act. All the members of Parliament who join the Gladstone Ministry will therefore have to seek re-election immediately. In most instances they will not be opposed. Their majorities in December were so large as to discourage the Tories. Mr. Trevelyan and Mr. Campbell-Banner-man were returned unopposed. Mr. Chamberlain had a majority of 2,764 in Birmingham, Mr. Mundella 1,334 in Sheffield, Mr. Childers 2,500 in Edinburgh, and Sir William Harcourt 2,687 in Derby. Mr. Gladstone’s victory in Midlothian was overwhelming. Mr. John Morley had a majority of only 629 on a total poll of 20,000 in Newcastle-on-Tyne. The vote stood: Morley, 10,129; Hammond (Tory). 9,500. The Tories will oppose Mr. Morley’s reelection in the hope that his declaration in favor of Irish home rule wiil weaken him in that constituency. Representatives of Turkey and Bulgaria have signed the agreement relative to the Bulgarian union, and have notified the powers to that effect... . The Prussian Government has submitted a bill to the Bundes«rath to prolong the anti-socialist, law; . The Prince of Wales and his wife and fjons attended the wedding of Miss Mary Gladstone and Rev-. Harry took place at Hawardeu.. ..The policy proclaimed by Prinoe Bismarck in regard to the Poles has brought about the sale of the Lubrienski estate in Prussia, containing two hundred thousand acres, of which the tenants were mostly Poles. The appointment of ikr. John Morley as Chief Secretary for Ireland is received with moderate friendliness by the papers of the Green Isle. ‘ln the event of MorleyV defeat for re-election at Newcastle, Mr. Parnell offers to find him a constituency in Ireland. Lord Salisbury and other members of the retiring Ministry were hooted at Portsmouth while returning from Osborne,

whither they had gone to deliver the seals of office to (he Queen Mr. William O’Keefe will contest the seat in Parliament of Mr. T. P. O’Connor, returned from Galway City. Mr. O’Keefe, as the Home-rule candidate, is to be supported by Mr. Parnell.... The apparently impossible feat' of telephoning Jthrough a distance of 2,465 miles was recently performed in Europe. The terminal points of the line were St. Petersburg and Boulogne. The conversation was continuous in spite of the fact of a rather high induction. It is thought possible to beat even this extraordinary achievement in the near future.