Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Rumors of war are becoming more- and more frequent, says a cable dispatch. The North German Gazette, the National Gazette, and Cologne Gazette, as well a$ the Time .s, Standard, and Daily Neirs, of Loudon, all . report that France is making elaborate preparations to dispatch to the German frontier strong re-enforce-ments of arms. An inspired letter from Berlin says: “In Government circles here the situation is regarded as serious. The peaceful tone of the French press is not assuring, as it is evident the papers have been officially ordered to adopt a peaceful attitude. There can be no question that France is preparing military camps on the German frontier. It remains to be seen whether a plausible reason can be given for this.” A gable dispatch says that' the Liberal and Irish Nationalist Clubs of London are arranging to hold a great public meeting to express indignation at be inhumanity 6hown in the recent evictions on the Winn estates at Glenbeigk, County Kerry. Ireland. A Dublin dispatch gives the following particulars of these evictions; j

Edward OGniday, a tenant on the Gabbett estates near Cahcreoulish. Limerick, learned that a force of eighteen bailiffs was coming to evict him. With the assistance of ■ne.ighb rs he cut down trees said shrubbery, with. v. him he barricaded the house. Then, with Abo'.t twenty friends, he proceeded to the upper lioor, and cut away the sta.roasp behind him. When tlvs. evicting party turived', they stormed the house’ with .. stSdge-haiuniers.. and' bayonets. Ladders were placed against the .walls, tip w h ich pol icemen and bail iff si swarmed, but tne defenders threw boiling water on their assailants olid mtried the ladders to the ground. After a three hours: coutest the bailiffs “finally succeeded in cutting a hole in the upper floor. ' through which some of the policemen crawled, while others covered the occupants of the houso with rifles. The eviction was then effected, and sovoral persons were arrested. During the "excitement the police repeatedly charged and clubbed a crow d of sympathizers that had gathered. -Several policemen and citizens were injured. In County Kerry one hundred and fifty policeman and bailiffs, on their way Gi evict the tenants at Cooinashorn, a wiki and almost inaccessible . glen, found the it way stopped by peasants, who had removed the usual moans of crossing tne stream poor the glen. While they were making a long detour, the peasant women carried the reporters and others who Were friendly to the tenants across the stream on their backs. The police finally arrived, evicted the tenants, and leveled the houses with crowbars. The burning of vacated dwellings has been abandoned, ow ing to Government pressure oi landlords. A sheriff and a force of police from GwesdOjre, while on t.ioir way to evict tenants at Bloody Fareland, County Donegal. Tuesday, found the road blocked with immense granite bowlders, and w ere obligedTo proceed on foot. The blowing of boras aud ringing of- bells brought together large crow as of peasants, who threatened the police with violence, lhe police made a strategic move around the base of the mountain bv the sea, but scouts on the mountain top gave the alarm, and the peasants, cheering, rushed down the mountain side and blocked the jtnssage. A Constable threatened the crowd with his baton. This was the signal for a shower of stones from the excited peasants. A desperate fight ensued, in which five policemen w ere badly wounded

The latest reports from London indicate that the British have no intention of seriously backing CanadainthefisheMeaqueg.: tion, if the Americans' only show a firm front. The general feeling is one of surprise that the United States should nave stood the Canadian nonsense so long. It is known tbe British Government, when sanctioning the enforcement of the fishery regulations in the, treaty of 1818, after the abrogation of the fishery clauses of the Washington treaty in impressed upon Sir John MaedonaldrtE¥~ necessity of maintaining friendly relations with the United States. „, .Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera, “Buddygore,” was severely criticised at its first presentation at the Sa4f6y Theater. London, and the authors probably realize that they are face to face with the first real failure of their joint career. .. .Mrs. Fawcett writes that when her

husbsnd was Postmnster General the Govamtueut ojM tied the letters of the l’arnellite«, and, when her husband protested, Mr. Gladstone and Sir Wm. Harcourt told him to/ mind bis own business... .A party of Salvationists - who went to Northampton to meet Gen. Booth were mobbed by the populace, an.d the police were unable tO protect them. Booth was hit with lumps of ice several times!.. .The- court at Edinburgh granted a divorce to the Marchioness of Queensbury on t|ie ground of adultery, ..... The Scottish Protestant Alliance has sent to Queen Victoria a memorial calling attention to the aggressions of the papacyin Great Britain.