Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A proclamation’ has been issued declaring Belfast and Londonderry under the provisions of the arms clause of the peacepreserving act.;,. :The cholera in Italy is continually decreasing in the worst districts, and, is stationary in the ’others.... The offices of the royalist papers, at Marseilles, Fiance,-were attacked by mobs, who were driven off and a number of the rioters arrested by the gendarnies, after a severe tight. Many of the police and soldiers were - we-vsnsled. . was derided. at a meeting of the Gladstone Cabinet, on July 20, to place the resignations of its members in the hands of the Queen at once. A messenger at once left London for Osborne. - The resignation of the Gladstone Cabinet was accepted by Queen Victoria on the 21st of July. , Carl vox Piloty, the celebrated German painter, is dead... .A special commission formed bv the Emperor of Russia to: revise the laws-affecting the-reigning family reduced the imperial incomes, with tn? exception of that of the Czar, to one-tliird the former sum. The heir-apparent is to be deemed of age. on his sixteenth birthday. The cable dispatches announce the death of the eminent German historical painter, Karl Theodor von Piloty, of Munich, in his 00th year. ...The Ferdinand Remys mill for the manufacture of rolled iron in Dortmund, Westphalia, has suspended operations—£3oo.ooo m arrears; The-sus-■pension is attributed to the “Stagnation in the Rhenish and Westphalia iron trade and the success of English competition. The citizens of Waterford, Ireland, held a public meeting and resolyed to request the removal of the royal portraits from the Council Chamber, and the substitution of a picture of General Thomas F. Meagher, presented by a citizen 1 of New York. M. Cassabiaxco, brother of the Bonapartist Senator of that name, fought a duel with M. Posi, a Republican editor. The weapons were swords. The proverbial editor was worsted... .The convicts of Roquette (France) Prison mutinied and overpowered their jailers. Troops were called in, and, tiring upon the mutineers, killed and wounded many of them A.. The Grand Orient of France is preparing a declaration that cremation is not at variance with the precepts of the Masonic order.... The news that Sebastopol and other Bjlack Sea ports are being protected by a wire apparatus designed to destroy torpedo-boats by electric fuses is by no means reassuring to those who have hoped that the peace of Europe will be preserved. It does not prove that war will follow the movement

of Russia in declaring the port of Bafonm closed, but it may be accepted as indicating that Russia is preparing for the consequences of that act, if not of others that are in contemplation for the fntiire. Ui'ON his arrival in London Lord Salisbury was met by a! great crowd, who welcomed him with hearty cheers. He called upon Lord Harrington and held an hour's conference with him. Lord Harrington promised Lord Salisbury a hearty support, but declined to join the Conservative Government. Lord Salisbury subsequently started for,(>sta>rne to receive the Queen’s command to form a government.