Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A satisfactory adjustment of the Franco-German difficulty over the arrest of the French Commissnrv Schiiaebels is deemed probable.. .. Customs officers throughout Great Britain and Ireland have received stringent orders to search all vessels arriving from America. China, and the East, the English Government having been warned that explosives have been sent from San Francisco to ports in the East, to be transhipped to England. Mr. Gladstone and wife visited tho grounds of the American Exhibition in London, and witnessed a special .perform-, nhce of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show for their benefit. ’At a lunch given afterward by the managers of the exhibition, Mr. Gladstone, replying to a toast, said the institutions and progress of the United States' had been subjects of great interest to him ever since he studied life in Washington many years ago- He always referred students who desired to 6tudy political life to the early history of America. Then, saying that Englishman and Americans were kinsmen and should have affection for each other, he concluded: “I rejoice that the clouds which once obscured our mutual vision have almost vanished ' from our political sky, and that the future is bright and promising as the warmesthearted among us could desire.” Mr. Lahovchere has with characteristic courage turned the tables on the London Times in the matter of the alleged Parnell letter. In an address to a London meeting a few evenings ago he declared that the Times published the Parnell letter knowing it to be a forgery, in order to create a sensation, and thus improve its circulation, which has been rapidly falling off. He al6o charged that the Times management bonght the forged letter from a worthless scamp, knowing him to be such, and knowing also that he could have no connection with Irish societies or with Mr. Parnell. At the conclusion of these charges Mr. Laboucbere invited the proprietors of the Times to sue him for libel. The invitation will not be accepted. To do so would force the Times to explain how it obtained the now notorious letter, and from whom. AS uneasy feeling prevails in Europe, owing to the att tude of Germany and France. The Budget Committee of the Reichstag has ad >pted the Governm nt estimates lor ineieasing the efficiency of the army, under ih« conviction that a collision with France ean-

not long be postponed. Bismarck will demand that France abstain from intriguing in Alsace-Lorraine, while Gen-’ eral Boulanger, French Minister of War, has issued a letter as an appendix to a pamphlet entitled “The Next FrancoGerman Battle.”... .M. Schaebeles, who was released from prison by the Germans, received an'ovation on reaching French territory.. . .The trouble between France and the Congo Free State regarding territorial boundary lines has been satisfactor.ly settled... .William O’Brien, the Irish - patriot, is on his wav to Canada to denounce the tyranny and dnplicity of Lord Lansdowne.