Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The appointment of Mr. John Morley as Chief Secretary for Ireland is received with moderate friendliness bv the papers of the Green lelfe. In the event of Morley’s defeat for re-election at Newcastle, Mr. Parnell offers to find him a constituency in Ireland. —— —7^ —■ ? 1 . The depression in the British iron trade has caused two more failures at Glasgow. 1.. A London cablegram -states that a formidable- opposition to Gladstone’s plans for quitting Ireland is being organized by ChambeHain and Trevelyan.. . .Athens dispatches state that the Greek army is reported to have crossed the frontier into Turkey, and war excitement runs high. This action vvas somewhat unexpected. No hostile move was looked for until after the meeting of the Chambers. when a formal declaration of war will doubtless be made. The Greeks count itppn holding their own on land by taking a strong defensive position, and hope to defeat the Turkish fleet and blockade the Dardanelles. The Russian Government has notified the Jowers that Russia a ill take no part in coercing Greece,-; ; . The Greek and Turkish armies on the Turco-Greek frontier have lost 10 per cent, of their men by extremely cold weather.., .The.roof Of a theater in Heromal. Japan, gave Way under a weight of sndw while a performance was in progress, and fell upon the spectators, 150 of whom were seriously hurt- or killed.’. . . The King of Corea has issued an edict abolishing slavery in his kingdom. It is estimated that over half the population of Corea were slaves.... A vessel was wrecked at Baku, Russia, by an explosion of petroleum, and the entire crew of- thirteen persons perished. . The German .Reichstag has Voted to prolong the anti-socialist law two years. .ii--At Monte Carlo a young commercial traveler who was on his bridal tour and had* stopped for a few days at Monaco, committed suicide after ruining himself at the gaming table.. .. The cable announces the death of the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, the famous Baptist preacher of Liverpool, who m earh' life ran a locomotive on the London and Northwestern Road. ~ Repobts come from Anam that 442 personS were recently massacred at Catholic missions.... Advices from London are to the effect that a British Cabinet council was held to discuss the warlike but-' situation is very grave, and Earl Rosefiery, Foreign Secretary, conferred several times with the diplomatic representatives of Russia and Turkey. It was announced in’Parliament that the policy of the pres-gnt-G-ovemmen twould be- of - the same de - termined, though conservative, nature as that of Lord Salisbury, and it was also stated that England had every assurance from Russia of her friendly intentions. , Great activity is reported in the shipyards of foreign nations. The Mediterranean fleets are toing reenforced as rap- , idly as possible f eare o f a war between Greece and Turkey being evidently serious. The British Admiralty has orderedfour boatsto proceed to the Medi--ternmean , . Tl)e Cambridge crew defeats ed the Oxfords in the annual race on the Thames, by only a liidf length. The contest is. pronounced the most exciting for ten rears.... At a spring fair in a German town On the banks of the Rhine, a fire destroyed fifty tents belonging to showmen, cremating large numbers of horses, monkeys, sheep, and goats.. . Another of the wolf-bitten mujicks who have been under treatment by ’M. Pasteur has died of hydrophobia. The London Lancet and other medical journals favdr Prof. Brissons treatment for hydrophobia in preference to M. Pasteur’s.' It is claimed that Brisson’s method effects

cures even after rabies ba* developed., Michael Davitt is havjrig a rather hunt time of it nowadays and is getting many of his new friends into trouble. An Oxford undergraduate has lieen rusticated bv the don# for entertaining this “disloyal/ subject” and "ex-convict,” and now Lord Aberdeen, the new Viceroy of Ireland, is marked for cen ■ sure for having the temerity to shake poor Davitt's only hand at a chanty meeting m the Dublin Mansion House a few week# ago. Some bigot has placed on the noticebook of the Chamber of Commerce of the Irish capital a suggestion, that a meeting of the Chamber be balled for the purpost of protesting against ettchconduct.