Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

•A-DIBP,4TOn from Burmoh states that the insurgents have got possession of Mandalay and have destroyed by fire. 4,000 houses. Among the buildings burned were the Chinese and Siamese bazars. The hostility of the natives who remain loyal to the dethrbnged King Theebaw to the Chinese is intense because of China’6 indorsement of Great Britain’s seizure of Burmah. The officers commanding the British forces have telegraphed to Lord Dufi'erin, the Viceroy, V Unit they are.powerless to prevent the. rebellions' rioting of the natives, and have urgently asked for re-enforcements. The London papers comment freely upon the Chicago riots and the struggle between capital and labor. The following excerpts are sent by cable: London Daily Telegraph—There is no need to fear that the law-breakers in Chicago will overpower the police. It becomes us, however, on this side of the Atlantic, to consider how far we are responsible for the savage emeute in Chicago. The saddest charge that can be brought against Mr. Gladstone is that all his administrations have abdicated in Ireland the first function of government, which is to govern. The result is seen in the surrender he fain would make to the Irish irreconeilables in America The Chicago riot has shown ut onew what manner of men thfi supporters of these Irish hills beyond the Atlantic are. London Standard —The Chicago bombs may originally have been intended for the Czar *r the English Home Secretary, but it is impossible to insure thatsuch wares be kept exclusively for foreign consumption wheii riots break out. London Daily Nr ten —The territorial democracy of America will make very short work of anarchist plots once it has been aroused, as it is now likely to be, to action against them. London Daily Times —The riot in Chicago is a sign that Anioricfttn industry has now to contend with all the difficulties which the capitalists of Europe have had to battle with. It shows that Americans may have before them troubles greater than those with which we are familiar. The American labor market is unable to absorb the unlimited number of recruits from Europe. It is a grave fact that America yearly receives a number of restless, unscrupulous spirits from Europe who freely use dynamite and revolver to gain their ends One chance of safety, how- J ever, lies in the fact that Americans are Sot blind to theso dangers, and nurse no visionary hbpes as to the best mode of averting them. THEGreek Government has sent a gunboat to Constantujople to take away the Hellenic Minister. - Greek troops are being harried to the frontier. The Powers have ordered their fleets to blockade the Greek ports. The Government has announced its intention of defending Greek territory against any and all advances by foreign soldiers. The populace of Athens are enthusiastic over the prospect of war with Turkey, and the soldiers paraded the streets singing patriotic songs. They were everywhere cheered, and are at present the most popular persons in the citvy.... The rural districts of Germany are said to be; nearly unanimous in ditsiring the restoration of silver, but the central assembly of industrialists passed resolutions ngamsibiisjetallism.... Reiiri Rochefort, editor of L'lntraiudgcant. and M. Porlalise* fought a duel with pistols near Paris. Fhur shots were fired by each contestant, non 4 of which I did any harm.

The virulence of British newspaper attacks on the home-rule (incstiou may be surtpisrd when it is stated that Mr. T3-ndall charges that Mr. Gladstone is -guilty of a treasonable surprise; that he is trying to drug and debauch the nation. The Spectator. however, says that these over-excited statesmen arc not likely to till the country with confidence in the sagacity as politicians of the writers. . . .Greece uas been notified that its ports will be blockaded by the squadrons of five powers,.Liebkneclit, the socialistic, member of tbe German Reichstag, announces that he jvill visit the United States in September. '• ' -■ - ■t-