Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Russian Constitutionalists have issued a manifesto in which, after repudiating any connection with the recent attempt on the Czar’s life, the party creed is laid down, the three chief points of which are: That a consultative chamber be summoned, the Czar retaining the right to decide with the majority or the minority, as he pleases; that the -press be granted freedom of speech; and that political prisoners be amnestied. Berlin was decorated with flags and flowers on the 22d of March, in honor of =] the Emperor’s ninetieth birthday, and at noon a royal salute of 101 guns was fired. The student’s procession' passed the imperial palace required several hundred carriages. Banquets were given in each con-tinental-capital by the German Ambassador. Russia has officially protested against the action of Turkey in Bulgaria.... Six persons who were captured in connection w ith the recent plot to assassinate the Czar, were hanged. De Gaieff, the man who murdered Lieut. Col. Sudeikim, the Russian Chief of Police, three years ago, and who was suspected of having planned this plot against the Czar's life, is said to be one of the 5ix...... The police of St. Petersburg have discovered stores of dynamite and apparatus for the manufacture of bombs in several villas in the 1 suburbs of the Russian capital. Germany has refused to participate in the Paris International Exhibition of 1889. ....French experiments with the "selfsteering torpedo' have resulted in failure. ....Advices from China say that over 300 tramps appeared in the village of Hsia-Shib-Chen and greatly irritated the inhabitants. who inveigled them into the temple, and during the.pight set fire to it. Only forty of the tramps escaped, the remainder being burned to death.;. .Eighty-five men were entombed by an explosion in a eollery near Sydney, New South Wales. The birthday presents received by Emperor William are sufficient to till five fnmitnre vans. . . The Bulgarian Prime Minister is making a tour of the country openly advocating independence. The ocean yacht-race Was won by the Coronet, which arrived off Queenstown about noon on .Sunday. The distance is 9,949 miles. Her apparent time was just inside of- fifteen days. Her shortest day's run was 38.8 miles; her longest 29 Lo miles. The weather, was uncommonly stormy. She carried twenty-nine persons The an. nual boat-race between the Oxford and Cambridge University crews resulted in a victory for the Cambride men by three lengths. ' Th# Oxford crew unfortunately broke an oar at Barnes’ Bridge and was thus badly handicapped.... Feeling is now somewhat doubtful as to whether France and Germany propose to. adjust their differences and live at peace. The warmth of the Kaiser’s birthday greetings and the honeyed words of M. de Lesseps Lave produced a state of calm that has not been known for many months.

! The feeling of distrust on the Berlin ! bouise, however, continues unabated, and but liitle confidence is expressed, in the maintenance of i Lace. Russia keeps up her preparations for all possible contingencies. Eighty-seven lotpedo vessels belonging to the Baltic fleet have been ordered placed in a state of constant readiness for 1 service.. .'.Eighty-five persons lost their lives by the explosion in the Bulli colliery at Lidney, England. .. .The French Chamber of Deputies has raised the import duty on oxem to 38 francs, and, placed a duty of 29 francs on cows, 8 francs on calves, 5 francs on sheep, and 12 francs on fresh meat.