Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

President Carnot of France is 111. Ten war vessels of the Brftish navy wero condemned last month as unfit for service, and ordered sold. A dynamite bomb was exploded In front

of the residence of the. Public Prosecutor of Antwerp, Monday. No one injured. Count Revcntlow, Danish Secretary oi Legation in St. Petersburg, has been appointed Minister to the United States. The Italian Government proposes tc monopolize the life and fire insurance business and thus add $10,000,000 to the revenue. In order to cut down expenses, Spain proposed to abolish the district criminal courts, and lawyers in several of her large cities have gone on a strike. Three lots on the corner of Oxford street and Oxford Circus. London, brought al auction the other day a price equal to slls a square foot. The British House of Commons has finally passed the third clause of Section 1 of the Home-rule bill, which has been under debate since May 30. Duke Maximilian Emanuel, brother oi Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, while returning to Munich from a ride, ruptured a carotid artery and died almost immediately. - Eleven graduates of the American college at Rome, who have just been ordained to the priesthood, were given an audience by the Pojpe and received his blessing. •i Lieut. de Paladines, son of the famous French general of that name, shot himself accidentally with a revolver at Moulins, and died almost immediately. Tha Swedish Government has established on the coast nine stations for medical observation. The object of this measure is to protect the country from cholera.

Advices received from Samoa announce that Maliteo, still refusing to compromise with his rival, has directed the government forces to advance and enforce Matafa’s submission to him. A mission priest recently returned to the City of Mexico from an Indian village, only two days’ journey, and reports having discovered an Indian temple with seven large Aztec idols, to which the people prayed publicly. A suit in the English Chancery Court, begun in 1741, was concluded a few days ago. A sum of £14,000 was fought about, and the Government duties and legal fees neatly cover the entire sum, with the exception of a few pounds. Striking miners in Fuenfkirchen started a riot, but were dispersed bv the military before they could do much damage. The soldiers fired one volley which the strikers answered before fleeing. Several men on each side were wounded. The Rome correspondent of the London Daily News says "that the Pope has decided that in the diocese of St. Paul (U. S.) the clergy must instruct Catholic and Protestant children alike without exacting from the Protestants a promise to become Catholics. The Hamburg-Ameriean Steamship Company has given a Belfast firm the contract to build two large cargo boats. The order went to Belfast because the builders at that port underbid the German builders 400,000 marks on each vessel.

The financial situation in London is steadily improving, although no new Investments are being made. The bank rate has dropped from 4 to 3 per cent, and money is abundant It is so plentiful that consols are higher than they have ever been before in the history of the Empire. sThe embarkationof Russian emigrants from Hamburg for the United States being forbidden, Scharlach & Co., agents of several Liverpool steamship lines, have chartered the steamer Red Sea, and will send on her from Bremen to New York eight hundred steerage passengers, mostly Russians. Colombia has decided to enter a formal protest to Holland against the continued traffic in Indian children by thp Dutch traders on the Goajira coast. Thirty girls, pearly all from ten to twelve years old, were recently brought to Curacoa on one schooner. They were there openly sold in domestic service. Among the recommendations contained in the report of the commission appointed to consider the causes of and remedies for the derangement of the silver money system of India, is one advising the stoppage of the coining in Indian mints 60Ilver for private aoootmt. Lord Herschell, at present Lord High Chancellor, was at the head of the commission. Prince Bismarck will go to Kissengen with his family in July to take the water. Prince Regent Lufopold, of Bavaria, has placed at his disposal carriages and servants from the royal establishment. Bismarck received the veterans of Wandsbeck at Friedrichsruhe, last week, and spoke briefly of hisexperience in the army. Ho was sorry, he said, that his parents had not allowed him to remain in the service. The deepest impressions of his life had been made during his years in the army. The chaos of political parties at present prevailing in Germany, is unprecedented in histofy. More than twenty political parties are striving for supremacy at present. The large land owners, the small peasant proprietors, the merchants, the tradesmen, the mechanics, the laborers, the petty officials, the teachers, all and every one are dissatisfied and they all look for sal vat bn from some political party of their own. There are the conservatives, mostly noblemen and their retainers, who see their only salvation In absolute monarchy and in protection of the German grain products. They are wroth with the Emperor and Caprivl on account of the commercial treaties with Austria and Italy, which admitted the products of those countries at a reduced rate of duty.