Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Sixty British members of the House of Commons held a conference and adopted a resolution to call the attention of Parliament to the alleged packing of juries in the cases against Nationalists in Ireland... .A conflict occmred yesterday between a force of police on their way to execute a number of eviction orders and a part of the population of Dingle, a seaport town in County Kerry. A number of men and women were injured. Prince Bismarck emphatically denies the. stories circulated by the opposition, asserting that the Government, in event of securing a majority in the new Reichstag, measures extending military service to seveii years, and suspend universal suffrage and even the Constitution,/. .The steamship Great Eastern was sold at auction in London for j?l3t>.ooQ. She originally cost sl,ooo,oou'. ADVICES from Metz say that the work on the French fortifications and barracks at Verdun and Belfort continues night and day. All commerce has been suspended at Metz except in f00d.... A semi-official letter from St. Petersburg represents that Russia is waiting lor a Franco-German conflict, which she considers inevitable, to realize her own Balkan projects. While •making no compact- with France,- Russia would consider it to be to her own interest not to allow Germany to be victorious in a struggle I etween those countries. It is supposed that this intention on the part of Russia explains the dally mg in the negotiations for the settlement of the Bulgarian question now being carried on at Constantinople. ~. Prince Bismarcks organ says that the Reichstag will I e again dissolved unless th<? Government secures a majority in the eSming elections.. . The lottery loan which the Copgo free state propos s to issue in Bel-inm will be divided into shares of 125 francs each, bearing interest at 5 per cent. The amount will be«istKooo,(iti.) francs' .. Advices from Tengu. one of the Friendly Islands, says that the six-natives who Were condemned to deatlrforcomplicity inlhe assault on Mig isionary Baler and jlils family have been executed.. . .On the ground tbtrt the money is used to purchase police bludgeons. Archbishop Croke advocates the non-payment* of taxes in Ireland.... Mr. Gladstone has written a letter appealing to Irish Protestaiits tofavorhome* rule ~*: ytriirirolic tnis*s’onaries are unusually active in Bulgaria, and ore meeting with uncxpectedsuccess. Ir is now claimed that only a.spark is needed to kindle the much-anticipated European war. Russia is about to throw off the cloak that has been so long hiding drer rtsil.purposes. She is said to be well prepared for war, and Las looked well to the armaments of her only reliable ally. Montenegro. Bismarck, meanwhile, isMoing his .best to smash France before she cauunitle with Russia... .The Budget Committee: of the Reiehsrath. at Vienna, has voted a credit of 15.0W.000

florins for the equipment ~of the lamlwehr and lamlstrfim... .Germany is l buying heavy supplies of grain from America through an Antwerp firm. . . . .The English papers advocate the settling of the fishery dispute ip advance of the opening of the fishing season, nnd adds that the Canadians must be prepared to waive some of the rights for which they have been clamoring... .Cardinal Jacobi ini's letters are causing keen expitement in Italy- Opinions bn them are «onsiderably divided, but it is generally thought that there is no prospect of Italy voluntarily ameliorating the position of the Vatican or •hanging it. '