Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It.yly desires a renewal of the alliance with Germany and Austria, according to the I‘opolu Romano, because these powers are the most able to guarantee peace. Vienna newspapers regard the speech of Emperor 'William to the Reichstag as retis- 5 suring, but they consider there is more danger of war from Russia than from Germany or France... .Incendiarismon a large scale was perpetrated last week around Limerick, in Ireland, the victims in all cases being persons who had paid rents. The aggregate of property destroyed is very large.- . . . The Rustchuk uprising has been suppressed by the shooting of nearly all the revolutionists... Herr Weddell Presdort has been elected President of the German Reichstag. , The London Standard declares that the proceedings of the British Parliament are becoming a public scandal The Suez Canal is now lighted the whole lengthy by electricity, and a steamer has made the passage in fifteen hours... .At the opening session of the new German Reichstag 250 members were present. In his speech from the throne the Emperor said: “The foreign relations of the Government are the same fls when the last Reichstag was opened. If the present Reichstag, without hesitation or division, gives unanimous expression to the resolve that the nation w ill put forth its full strength in full panoply now and at all times against any attack upon our frontiers, such resolution, even before carried out, will materially strengthen the guaranties of pence and remove the dojubts which late parliamentary debates may have inspired.” The same internal bills that were submitted to the previous Reichstag will again be offered. The troubles in Bulgaria, which, it Is alleged. have been fomented by agents of the Czar, may possibly lead to "the outburst which has been almost daily* anticipated for mouths. While the English have beem looking upon Alexander of Battenberg as a young Napoleon who wanted to found a dynasty in Bulgaria he has been giving. assurances to—Germany -that he—would not under any Circumstances return to Germany or be drawn into a position hostile to Russia. It is asserted i>s an absolute fact that Italy' has concluded a treaty with Germany and Austria, which, however, does not oind her to offensive operations unless either of her allies is in a precarious state. She is to attack France in the event of this latter making war upon Germany in i-oneert with Russia, and is to help Austria with her tievt in case of a serious Russian conflict. In return she is to get at least Trentino, and, if a general war ensues, Corsica, Nice, and Savoy,... The events of the last week or

two have conspired to put Rotimania into a po-it.on of of* n antagonism to Russia, and*‘it seems clearer now than before that Turkey must from the start throw herself into the field against Russia..., Niue of the Rustchuk rebels have been sentenced to death. A crowd cheered the leniences and threatened to lynch the prisoners if the sentence was not carried out ...The Chief Secretaryship for Ireland, vacated by Sir Michael ilicks-Beach, has been 'acoepted by the Right Ron. Arthur W. Balfour, a nephew of Lord Salisbury.,. .One huudred and forty-four miners were killed by an explosion of fire damp in a mine nt lions, Belgium.