Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

In the British elections, up to Wednesday, the 7th inst., the Tories had made net gain of thirteen seats, and had elected 184 candidates, the Unionists had elected 41, the Gladstonians 83, and the Parnellites 34. George J. Goschen, one of the bitterest opponents of Mr. Gladstone, was defeated in the East Division of Edinburgh by a majority of 1,339. Sir Charles Dilke was defeated at Chelsea by a Conservative. C. E.. Lewis, Conservative, was re-elected at Londonderry over Justin McCarthy, Parnellite. John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, was re-elected from Newcastle-upon-Tyne by a vote of 10,681. The British and Colonial Chamber of Commerce passed, by a vote of 28 to 15, amid great excitement, a resolution declaring that the remonetization of silver would relieve the depression under which trade is now staggering. The meeting is regarded as highly important, and its influence upon the coming silver demonstration in Lancashire must necessarily be very strong. ...“The new Parliament will meet Aug. 5,” says a London dispatch. “The Wesleyan ministers throughout the country are signing an address expressing sympathy with Mr. Gladstone and the hope that he will be spared to give such selfgovernment to Ireland as will satisfy the claims of justice and hasten the reign of peace and good-wi11.”... .Fresh complications are reported over the Afghan frontier question, the Russians now claiming Khamiab, which is alleged to have been an Afghan possession for thirty-five years.... Rioting broke out during the polling in Cardiff, Wales. The police charged the crowd and wounded over one hundred persons? twenty"of them seriously... .The Turkish Minister of Marine gave a gland dinner, at Constantinople, to Minister Cox and the officers and men of the Keirsarge. .... Prince Lhitpold, regent of Bavaria, has written a letter -to Emperor William expressing his loyalty to the German Empire. The annual report of the Suez Canal Company, which was presented at the recent meeting, contains the following foottogs: Receipts for the year, $13,009,989; expenses, $6,204,235; and 6,335,753 tons transported. The profit of $6,80’5,754, or considerably more than 50 per cent, of the total receipts, is a veiy good thing for the shareholders... .The Board of Guardians at Mifchellstown, Ireland, has petitioned the Lord Lieutenant to stay evictions until November, on account of the prospects of a splendid harvest. A cable dispatch from London says that the near friends of Gladstone are believing that he intends to resign on the assembling of Parliament, in which event Salisbury’s friends think he will be sent for by the Queen and asked to form a Cabinet. Trevelyan, who resigned from the Cabinet with 6 Chamberlain to oppose Gladstone s Irish policy, was defeated for re-election. Timothy Healey, the Parnell candidate, was beaten in South Londonderry. Captain Ker (Tory) was elected from East Down, and Saunderson from Armagh, both over Parnellites. Loyd Hartington was re-elected, and the total returns up to the 12th inst showed the following results: Conservatives, 289; Unionists, 63; Gladstonians, 149; and Parnellites, 72. Another cablegram states that “Lord Salisbury has made overtures to Lord Hartington for the formation of a coalition ministry, whose programme shall include a local-government bill for Ireland, Scotland, and England: a laborers’ allotment bill, empowering rural laborers to acquire small holdings; reform and extension of the artisans’ dwellings act, including dwellings of farm laborers; a measure for the cheaper transfer of lands, and the appointment of a select committee to inquire Into the administration of ttie government of India,’with the view of giving the natives increased local control. If Lord Hartington consents to the formation of a coalition ministry the cabinet will include Mr. Goschen, Sir and the Duke of Argyll, but not Mr. Chamberlain..” , The ravages of cholera in Rome is growing worse daily. New cases by the hundred are being reported... .The Pope has ordered the examination of the whole Irish question, in order to determine the course to be pursued by the Irish clergy in certain contingeneies....A letter from Hocerad, Bohemia, gives details of the catastrophe Which recently happened at that place,

and which resulted in the drowning of nearly fifty people. The correspondent says that ’seventy boys and girls of the neighborhood, while on their way to bo confirmed by the Bishop of the district; had embarked in a small ffrrvbaai to rvaeh the Opposite shofe. The river had been Swollen by hfeavy rains, and when the middle was reached the boat began to rock. Several of the occupants, including the boatmen, jumped into the river to lighten it and the jolt caused the eraft to upset, throwing every soul into the water. About twenty-five managed to save themselves by swimming, but the remaining forty-five were drowned.