Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Eugene Spullet, French politician, journalist and.author, is dead, aged 61. The Storthing of Norway has rejected the bill for fhe’retention of the temporary increase of the duties oil petroleum and sugar and for an imposition of a duty on meat. The House of Commons at London Wednesday considered in committeeclause 24 of the Irish land bill. Tha clause provides that in purchase transactions the land commission shall money in lieu of stock heretofore issued. Sir ThomasjEsmbnde (Parnellite) moved an amendment to continue the existing arrangement. E. F. Knox, anti-Parnell-ite; John Dillon, leader of the home rule party and member for East Mayo; T. M. Healy, anti-Parnellite; E- J." Sounder* soil, conservative; and John E. Redmond, Parnellite, supported the amendment. Both A. J. Balfouf, First Lord of the Treasury,, and Gerald Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, spoke in opposition to the amendment, which was carried by a vote of I>9 yeas to 86 nays. The result was greeted with cheers and laughter, mingled with derisive shouts of “Resign! ’ On motion of A. J. Balfour the whole of clause 24 was then withdrawn. Consul General Mclvbr at Kanagawa has forwarded to the State Department tables showing the foreign trade of Japan for 1895. The total value of exports was $68,093,662 and of imports $65,922,895. Of this amount the United States is credited with $27,554,7(54 for exports and $4,730,943 for imports. The customs duties collected were for exports, sl,159,281; imports. $2,1111,809; miscellaneous, $88,045, making a total of $3,409,135. During the year 1.863 steamers and' 1,005 sailing vessels entered the ports of Japan from foreign countries. Of these ninety-six were American, 987 British ahd 371 German. Forty-nine American steamfers and sailing 1 vessels were engage ed in the coastwise trade of Japan, against 761 British. 104 French and ISI German. Japan exported $1,423,895 gold and $12,499,970 silver bullion. Slm Unportial bullion to the value Of $525,20;> in gold and $2,470,5(58 in silver. Col. Rafael j?ere^y-Moraies r -ene-of-the_ ' sTjfnerirofTlie Cu in New, York Tuesday from Kingston, Jamaica. He was shot in the eye during a recent battle and cojnes to New York for surgical treatment. The reported death of Gen, Jose Maceo was in no way due to alleged dissensions with (Jen. Garcia,™ said Col. Morales. "When Gen. Garcia landed Gen, Maceo willingly turned over hi s comma nd an d mad e a- con g rat ula t ory speech to the army. He served 1 under Garcia inHlic-previous war and said that he was glad to do so again. Scarcely a day passes without an engagement in Eastern Cuba. Almost the whole province of Santiago de Cuba is now in the hands of the insurgents. The array has 1 fifteen pieces of field artillery manned almost entirely by Americans. We call it the Wilmington Battery! in remembrance of the assistance us by the citizens of Wilmington, Del. What the Cubans most need now is. 15,000 more rifltfe.”