Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 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 Isle." In the event of Morley’s defeatfor re-election at Newcastle, Mi-. Parnell offers to find him a constituency in Ireland. A Vienna dispatch says that sixty -eight charred bodies have been found in the ruins left by the fires at Stry, and twenty invalids, who were taken into the country to escape the flames, have died in the fields. The total loss at Stry is $2,500,000. Only, S2OO has been subscribed at Vienna to a relief fund, and help will be solicited abroad. The looting by the peasantry has been suppressed. Mobs of destitute and starving people are raiding the farm houses in the vicinity of Stry for food, and the farmers are compelietl to ban t nniite"~l'heir -homes to escape being plundered. '"Struggles for food, "resulting in bloodshed, have taken place.... Advices from Mandalay say that a British expedition sent against , the Kachyen tribe has been compelled to retreat. The rebels, -in overwhelming fore**, made a desperate attack on the British, charging into a battery of the mountain guns and driving the expedition back. Mandalay dispatches say also that the rebels have' captured the Meegandet police station. Thev bound the garrison with cords and massacred twenty-three persons. ....Lord Salisbury, in a published letter, says he is. convinced Gladstone’s “desperate scheme” for governing Ireland will be indignantly rejected by the nation.

A Shekiff- and {wnu’med posse attempted to evict some tenants from a house on Mr. Urtson Gun’s estate, near Listswel, Ireland, but they were prevented by an angry mob,' which was called together by the ringing of bells and the blowing of horns. During the excitement a bailiff was stabbed... . Mr. Shaw-Lefevre’s election at Bradford to succeed the lute Mb: Forster is a triumph for Gladstone and home rule. The successful candidate was a Home-Ruler beford his chief announced himself as such, and has been more radical in his advocacy. His election for the Bradford district is particularly significant, -because Mr. Forster, the late member, was a determined opponent of Mr. Gladstone's new Irish policy, anr whether, true or not, it has been indre triouslv stated that the ex-Secretary's (him words Were: “No home rule.” This deathbed declaration must have had a very considerable effect oil the constituency, yet Mr. Lefevre got a majority of 780 against a majority of 1.543 given Mr. Forster on a much larger poll. Fifty followers of a powerful Burmese Prince set fire to Mandalay, the capital, in several places aud one-third of the walled city was ruined. The treasury, postoflice,. anil other buildings within the palace inclosnre were dstroyed. A physician sent by the Austrian Government to Paris to investigate Pasteur’s system of treating hydrophobia has advised its adoption by the profession.... An offer has been made by the trustees of the extensive Syrncs estates near Westport. Ireland, to tenants at sums equaling, in the case of each holding, twelve years’ rent. The Turkish Ambassador informed the war -authorities that his Government would refuse any further dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire without fighting for the integrity-of her territory, and that tfie Turkish army was iu excellent shape, and pre- - pared at any moment to sweep over Greece and annihilate her forces. He also stated that the Turkish fleeUwas preparing to defend itself against Greek cruisers and tor- —' V- ' - ■' —.j ’ ‘ V ■" ■' " vWr -’a: ” r '• '•

pedoes. France, it was reported, had written to Greece with advice to disarm, and at its suggestion the ultimatum of the powers bad Mia modified. . . .The Paris international exhibition is to have an iron towel 934 feet high, to cost $1,(100,000. It will be surmounted by an electric light powerful enough to be seen 200 miles away.... Orangemen olid Catholics indulged in a row at Glasgow, the former breaking out tht w indows of a church.... .It is stated positivelv that an agreement has lieen effeetec UfeTweeii rrnsßta and "the Roman rathottt Church... .The Prussian Government haordered an inquiry into the complaints o! farmers that land is overtaxed.