Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The French Government proposes to doftate 200,000 francs to the Pasteur fund for the establishment of a hospital for the treatment of persons who havebeen bitten by rabid animals. The appointment of Mr. John Morley as Chief Secretary for Ireland is received with moderate iriendliness bv the papers of the Green Isle. In {he event of Morley’s defeat for re-election at Newcastle, Mr. Parnell offers to find him a constituency in Ireland. The Earl of Shaftesbury, while riding in Regent street, London, drew a revolver and discharged the contents of all the barrels into his body, dying almost instantly. He bad been greatly depressed by illness. -He leaves a widow, a son'and five daughters. In the British House of Commons, on Tuesday, the 13th inst.. after speeches by Harcourt and Gladstone in favor, and Gosehen and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach against the Irish home-rule bill, a motion that leave be given to introduce the bill was put by the Speaker, and agreed to, without a division. Mr. Gladstone then stated that the second reading of the bill would be fixed for the 6th of May. ■ At Moute Carlo a young commercial traveler who was on his bridal tour and had stopped for a few davs 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 in early life run a locomotive on the London and Northwestern Road. Mr. Gladstone, in an hour and five minutes speech, laid his Irish land hill before the House, of Commons on the 16th inst. The Conservatives believe the amount which the bill proposes to expend in buying out the i landlords will not be enough to cover the proposed pun h : \se. The Parnell--ites are divided in opinion on the general features of the bill. Mr. Gladstone pro,-, poses to free Erin from landlords by the . issue-of 3 per cent, consols to the amount of . £180,000.000.. .. Sisty-eight cases of cholera, of whichten have proved fatal, are reported from Brindisi, Italy. A quarantine against Brindisi has been established in various cities, and precautions of the most stringent kind A fleet of French vessels is at Papeete, the capital of the Tahiti Islands, and it is thought that France intends either to annex one yf the islands or establish a ate. and that islands of other groups may he included. : T. The Cologne Gazette says thai- the Duke of Edinburgh, commander of the British Mediterranean fleet, in a recent council of war, proposed to destrov the Creek fleet,

hut tho Russian Admiral stated that his instructions permitted hinronly to participate in the blockftde of the Greek coast... .Thp Bishop of Madrid was shot threo times by a priest while entering the Cathedral. The Bishop was borne in ail unconscious condition to the-private chamber of the Cathedral, where the last sacrameuts fpr The dying were administered to him..., I lie Ljwn of SL v, m Austrian Poland, was totally destroyed by fire. One hundred persons were killed in one street by falling wa115.... The King of jßavaria has stopped the building of palaces, and is retrenching in every wiv. He is to pay. his debts in, yearly installments of £550.(11)0..—-*—-