Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Three-Emperors’ Alliance, which was to expire in 1887, is said to have been renewed for a number of years.... The Spanish Congress has declared by an overwhelming majority that no Government of Spain will ever give autonomy to Cuba.... The German Reicbsrath has approved the regency of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. .... Terrible floods, caused by cloud-bursts, are reported in Silesia.... The French Senate has passed the expulsion bill by a majority of 34. A Paris dispatch says that an 11-year-old girl who bad been treated by Pasteur for rabies and had returned to her home, has died of hydrophobia.... Herr Krupp is preparing to establish a foundry for the manufacture of cannon at Nikolaief, the Russian naval station at the junction of the Ingiil and Bug Rivers.... The French Chamber of Deputies has appointed a special commission of eleven members to report upon the bill to enable the Panama Canal Company to raise $120,000,1100 by means of a lottery loan. Eight of the eleven members are known to be hostile to the measure.... After five years of deadlock between Prussia and England over their respective rights to the appointment of the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem; Prussia has decided to found an independent Prussian Bishopric at the Holy City .., The Count de Paris and his party met with an enthusiastic reception upon'their arrival at Dover, England. The party, consisted of the Count anCountess of Paris, the Duke of Chartes, the Duke of Orleans, and fifty companions. They were received by a large crowd. The Mayor and chief magnates of the town boarded the vessel, welcomed the party, expressed sympathy with them, and presented an address to the Count of Paris, to which the latter made a feeling reply, in which he said that he rejoiced that he had so many friends in England. An address from Frenchmen in all pints of Great Britain was also presented to the Count. Thomas Power O’Connor telegraphs as follows from London: “The progress of the campaign has made the land bill impossible. The bill is dead and buried beyond the hope of resurrection by Gladstone or any other man. Ylr. Childers, Secretary of State Tor the- Home-Departineut, and several other Gladstouites, including some of the Premier's most prominent colleagues, are already pledged against not only this proposal, but anv similar scheme. Public opinion leads the ministry in the matter. The landlords have got just what they deserved, according to popular ideas, by their senseless opposition to the bill, and are left to stew in their own juice. They were warned early in the fight by Gladstone, by Parnell, and by hundreds of other voices', that the terms offered were the best they would.ever, be likelv to secure. Early in the campaign the Gladstone side found it necessary to abandon the measure in defereneeJo expressions of popular disapproval that could not be mistaken. From this on the land-purchase bill is dropped from the programme of the Gladstone Liberals, and the landlords will have to wait until they obtain a. majority in the - House big enough to swamp the Nationals, Liberals, and Independents combined before it can be renewed in any form. The voice of Gladstone is the only one the masses care to bear or the politicians to discuss. Never has the Premier’s personal influence swayed the population to such an extent as at present. If the Liberals lose

, ( I the election, it will be due solely to the want of organization at first prevailing. The .(rouble is being rapidly remedied air last, jond arrangements for further straightening out the difficulties experienced are advancing rapidly.” Rev. Henry Ward Beecher arrived at Liverpool and was royally received. He waR sick most of the way over, but expects to be able to cany out his prearranged programme. .Richard Chamberlain, member of Parliament, attempted to address the people at West Islington, bnt was met with cries of “traitor.” The platform was stormed, and the speaker and his friends had to escape through a back door.