Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

THr. Empert'r dF-Jstpan hits adopted tit.; etlqueito oTJim llma-i m Court, ami has appointed Herr von ilohl. form ily Germau Consul at St, Petersburg, as master of ceremonies. The French factories of arms aml ammunition are being worked t« Mfceir utmost capacity. . . The corporation of bt rat ford-on-Avon lias voted the In n'lie-t lhanks of tie town to George \V. Guilds for the gift of a drinking-*.ounta n... . Judge Putt, of London. iu dismissing toe divorce petitions of Lord and Lady Campbell, granted full costs to toe . latter and to ilie Lbnke of Mjtri borough:. A: the regular "fortnightly meeting of lire ' Executive ComhiiU y of the Itish National League at Lublin it was announced that stuee the last meeting there had been received iu donations from Ire and f'i.SO't and lrom America ftimittki. .11:- .s©bn Piilon said he would continue to c.irrv out the plan of campaign in dedancv of the Government. “Nobody, he said, "h-'.s £ r ghto say t e plan of campaign is illegal until a jure has decided, on the facts.” Mr. Dillon also said that leaders in this new movement desire <0 bet etit tenants iu Ireland without assistance of tlv moonPghters. —The-- resignation —of—Lordltandolph Churchill, says a Loudon dispatch, splits the Tory party as effectively as Chamberlain's defection from Gladstone split the Liberals. The Irish ,-oer ive proposals of the Government were tb6 primary cause of Churchill's sndden nVolnron. There were otlie! points on which Churchill was unable,to agree with his cdl« agues’—the county Kovemmeut board lull sad - the" proposed el dure rules l>eing ti e most tin - poitnuf. Tlie roper yd disagreement on tie armv and* navy estimates between CfemcfaiU-aiidtfav ininiaters 1 e-peethyly* rc-~ 5? sponsible for those departments ha u ;turallv been cion a prominent pi «e iu reports rehitiug to the res g nation in connec- j tion with war rumors. It is, how ever, sale i

to say that Churchill's opinions on the question of coercion are the chief consideration. Churchill, it is now stated bv his personal organ*, was the the only friend of Ireland in the Cabinet. He hates coercion, and regards it as no remedy for disaffection. Churchill expects to he joined by recruits from Hnrtington’s following when the smash conn-s in Parliament. The British ironclad Sultan ran into and sunk tbo French steamer Ville do Victoria while the latter was lying at anchor in the Tagus. The Ville de Victoria had ‘250 persons on board, and most of them were drowned.