Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

At Ottawa, Out., the thermometer registered 10 degrees below zero March 30, and there was from four to five feet of snow on the ground.... The Captain of the yacht Dauntless attributes his defeat in the recent race to the interference of the owner, Mr. Colt, who was on board.... The will of Captain Janies B. Eads was probated at. New York. The bulk of his -property is bequeathed to his wife and five daughters. In the British House of Lords Earl Cardigan (Conservative) presented a bill providing for the purchase of Irish hold- - mgs—or, in other words, for the abolition of the system of dual ownership created by the act of 1881. Mb. Gladstone spoke with marked power and eloquence in the House of Commons against the coercion measure of the Salisbury Government. In closing he said: Among its most insulting and exasperating proposals—the worst ever submitted to Parliament—was tile provision that Irish trials bo held in London. Ho had never known such a blow at-the national feeling of Ireland. The Government could have devised nothing more likely to aggravate every existing event. As to the permanent duration of this bill, the proposal makes one's blood boil, To establish what was formerly only a temporary rented v as a permanent rote ofexistence of society in Ireland would put a brand of inferiority upon Ireland forever, recog- . uiziug as a fixed principle that force was 'a remedy The lesson ot many years showed that force was no remedy. Since the election of 1885, since the bulk of the Liberals had judged it both right and safe to grant home rule. Ireland had la on free front criino and out—rage—a condition long unKuown. Why was thisjp Because the Irish people knew a large, though insufficiently large, oodv of legislators represented their interests and would abide, .by them to the last. If the Liberals acceded'to the appeal of the Government the result would he retrogression. The Irish people, would return to a state of things which Liberal efforts had already partly remedied. As long as Ireland continued in her present course of moderation, so long would the Liberals be bound<to persevere in endeavors to assist her, The time would soon come when *"to the many now supporting the cause of Ireland would be added many more; when deplorable proposals'* such as those of the Government would no more be associated with the name of Ireland, and when it would be seen that in doing what they could now to serve the Irish cause they were' serving the cause of the wide 'empire of Great Britain. In the English House of Commons' on the Ist of April, cloture was carried by a vote of 361 to 253. and the first reading of the coercion bill was agreed upon without division. The announcement of the result” of the cloture division was received with cheers aud counter cheers, ana cries from the Parnellites of “Tyranny!” “Down with the Speaker!” All the members on the front Opposition bench, with-Glad-stone leading, left the House, followed bv a large body of Liberals. Mr. Parnell, in the debate ou the crimes bill, said that with the production of the land bill Parliament had been put in possession of the complete plan of the Government in all its nakedness and dishonesty. The land., bill, revealed the extent of the plot, and the gravity of the conspiracy through which the - Conservatives and Liberal Puiouists intended to try to coerce feijaft-s in Ireland into the payment of impossible rents, and interests.at exorbitant rates. If the House Tib thhe coerce the people, the result would most eertainly.be wholesale repudiation, involving immense loss to the British taxpayer. In a justly regulated land purchase lay the only hope for settling the land jjjnwtion; • ■ " While the Czar was exercising in the part connected with the Gatschina Palace he was fired upon by an officerof the army, the ball passing close to his person. The

Was immediately seized by attendants and iropruoned. The first day of April being Prince Bismarck’s seventy-second birthday, the Chancellor received numbeilesH tokens of es- | teem from all parts of Germany. After receiving personal congratulations from Princes William, Henry, Alexander, and George, the Chancellor went to the palace, whfire the Emperor awaited' him. In his passage along t’nter den Linden Prince Bismarck received a hearty welcome.... Three persons who attempted to assassinate the Czar with dynamito'bombs were hanged .in.til. I’etereburf; last week.