Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The manager of the Eden Theater, at , Paris, who was compelled .to withdraw “Lohengrin” because the people opposed German works, has sued the newspaper Ln /•'rtiHce for 5(1,0dfl francs damage for an attack made upon the opera...:The Pall MM prints a sensational story, which is generally discredited, to the effect that the Government has ordered sixty firstclass cells in Millbank Prison to be placed in readiness for the red-ption of Parnellite membei's of Parliament, whose arrest may be deemed necessary. If the news from Vienna is to be credited, the peace of Europe is in greater peril now than, at any time in many months. The Vienna report is to the effect that Itb.OOO Austrian soldiers are in Dalmatia prepared for a> campaign, and ’that the Montenegrin army is also reavly for action. A collision at this juncture between Austria and Montenegro would be almost ceitaiu to precipitate a general war... .Th? feditor of the PrcisHinige Zeitung has been sentenced to ,one month’s imprisonment for libeling Bismarck’s political character. The New German Liberals are forming an Anti-Com Law League... .An agent on behalf of three large banking firms in Berlin and four in St. Petersburg has con- : chided an extensive arrangement for conj vertinK the present OUigthndibg RussTafr • loans into new issues, with a view to raising Russian credit abroad....A dispatch I from Odessa says: “The Bankruptcy Court 1 is blocked with the insolvency cases of old- ; established and hitherto flourishing cou- , eerns. Many commercial men would wel- . come a war as infinitely preferable to the | present depression.” ’ ' QUEEN VICTCRIA opened the People’sPalaee. Mile End. London, aud the royal Tout? was crowded with people aud troops. Thie Queen’s reception to the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and. Court of Lieutenancy of the ■ City of London last week was stii.tly ac- . cording to the ancient procedure as fol--lowed when Edward 111. d&mpleted his j Jtith year. Tne ceremonies were of a most

stately and imposing' ctyffwicter.. The German Bundesrath has passed the sugar tax bill, and the Government will introduce a bill to nearly double the import duties on corn, rye, aud w 001.... .Officials in Berlin distrust the Czar’s professions of peace toward Germany, and maintain he is intriguing with Austria to break the German alliance The Czar's edict suppression the German language in the Russian schools intensifies the bitterness of the anti-Russian sentiment felt throughout Germany Counter Nationalist and Orange meetings which were to have been held at Cuiedon and Armagh were proclaimed, and the taverns ordered closed.