Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Mr. Gladstone in foe House of Commons on foe 18 th jnst. moved that the House devote four nights out of the five given to parliamentary business every week to the debate on the home-rule bill. The Premier’s proposal produced a sensation, as it had come to be generally believed that the Government had about given up hope of carrying their measure, aqfl would bring on the crisis as soon as possible. After a long and warm discussion‘the motion was carried. London Orangemen have decided to issue armanifesto appealing, to foe lodges of their order throughout the world for funds to oppose home rule... .The Marine Hospital Bureau at Washington has received reports showing that cholera in a violent form has appeared in the villages of Bretagne, France, where fishermen assemble in large numbers ia the spring time and live together Under unfavorable conditions. Marseilles is also said to be in a deplorable sanitary condition, and the mortality record for foe first three months of the present yearns greater than for any preceding year, being at the rate of 48 per 1,000 population. Cholera is reported to have made it.s appearance in that city. , The recent announcemeat by Ward Payne, tool-makers of Sheffield, England, that if their employes refuse to accept a reduction thev will be compelled to employ Germans at the reduced rates in order to compete with German manufacturers, has resulted in a riot. A large mob of strikers gathered in foe neighborhood of the manufactory and threatened with personal violence all the German passers-by who were believed to have secured employment with foe'firm. The rioters afterward attacked the -factory buildings, smashing the windows with stones and doing much other damage. At a liberal union conference in London, Lord Hartington maintained that the present Dish policy should be vigorously opposed by both Parliament and the country, and that everything possible should l>e done to maintain foe present legislative union between England and Ireland. Quite a large sum was subscribed for use at foe coming elections, and the meeting was regarded as x foe most important that had b< en held for months.... At the current Speaker's reception foe labor members of foe House signalized their disregard of conventionalities by discarding the court dress prescribed by custom and appearing in Irock coats, except Mr. Broadhurst, who wore a rough pilot coat... Don Carlos has published a manifesto repudiating foe infant son of Queen Christina as foe rightful successor to foe throne of Spain .The Minister of Commerce, of Spain, will introduce

a bill providing for the sale of a portion of the crown lands and forests. The government expects to realize $50,000,000, which will be applied to the army and navy... .Emperor William sent his condolence to Minister Pendleton upon hearing of the tragic death of his wife in New York.. ~A merchant of Lubeck, Germany, bequeathed to the University of Jena 300,000 marks to found a Darwin chair. A Berlin dispatch announces the death, at his home in that city, of Leopold von Ranke, the emuiont German, historian. He was Lo.ru at .Wiche in Thuringia Dec. 21, 1795, and was consequently in his 91st year.