Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Anti-German demonstrations continue to be made in various sections of Paris, says a dispatch from that city. A procession carrying a banner inscribed “To Berlin” marched to the palace of the Elysee, the residence of President Grevy, where it was dispersed by the police. Twelve of the persons who took prominent pait in this demonstration were arrested. The Government has decided to prosecute the publishers of the paper La Revanche for publishing an article entitled “Down with the Germans, ’’ .arid calculated to arouse a warlike feeling among the French people against the Germans. The Chinese Government has ordered that every foreign missionary in China must hold a passport from his own Government in order that his nationality may be shown.... The ' Paris Siecle sees a sinister significance in General Waldersee's tour aloug the frontiers of Alsace-Lorraine, despite the plausible explanations of his mission given by the German press. The Siecle professes to believe that “he is solely studying the best -points of concentration for Gern»n troops in proximity to the eastern frontier of France.”

The death of James Grant, author of many popular romances, is announced from Edinburgh... .Gen. Gresser, Prefect of St. Petersburg, has been piesented with 100,0(H) rubles by the Czarina for frus--1 trating the plot against her husband's life. . . The Australian delegates to the recent colonial conference at London are reported as being greatly displeased with the position of the Ministry on the New Hebrides question, as defined by Lord Salisbury before the conference. The Agent General of Victoria. Sir Graham Berry, is said to have declared that his Lordship's speech on that occasion “would have been excellent coming from the mouth of the French Premi- r." Colonial sentiment is strongly against anv course which implies the slightest recognition of French pretensions in the New Hebrides, whije the Imperial Government is apparently determined not to ri-k a rnptnre' with France even to satisfy the Australians. Theaitna- . ties certain y does not look promising’for the federation scheme. * The British Government is said to have declined to take part officially in the French exhibition, but will give every possible facility to British exhibitors.. . .Experiments ■ made by the German War Office have 1 proved that melinite, the new explosive, decomposes if kept long, and is therefore usele.-s for war purposes., Mr. Parnell’s health is believed to be in a very critical condition, bis constitution ’ being shattered by oveiwork, and thej, Irish members are anxiously discussing the efle.-ts of his early retirement from the leadership of the Irish party Affaire on the French frontier. sa\s a Berlin dispatch, look as though war was expected very soon, notwithstanding the ex* change of verbal assurances of peact between the German representative and M. r Fkturens. The frontier posts on each side have ceased to exchange courtesies and the Alsace police force has been s'rengthened. Germany continues the expulsion of French

sympathizers from the Reichslande and Germans venturing oter the line into French territory are in danger of being mobbed The Irish revolutionists in Paris are threatening to blow up the public buildings in England during the - Queen’s jnbilee, and to that end have appointed a commission to experiment with the new explosive, melinite, which is said to be much more powerful and destructive than dynamite. The chasm which has hitheto split the French section of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood in two has been bridged over, and both factions are at work preparing for “an active campaign” against the English Government.