The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-06-15
FOREIGN NOTES.

fOhEluN NIL Id.
Bismarck intends proposing to the Prus
Sian diet some important amendments to the
May (religious) laws. f4N9
Favorable weather has materially improv-
ed the condition of the growing grain In
Great Britain the past week.
The riot in st. Petersburg on May ~ is
alleged 10 nave been instigated by Mill
lists.
The negotiations between Prussia and
the Vatican having failed, Baron Won
| SchloeZer. the German ambassador, will
shortly take his departure from Rome.
The recent defeat of French reconnoit-
ering party In Tonquin was followed by the
massacre on the succeeding day of all the
Frenchmen who had been captured.
The pope will, II il alleged soon order the
suspension from orders OF such OF the Irish
clergy rs continue to participate In the POI
litical agitation In Ireland.
Five members of the Republican brother.
hood ut Waterford, Ireland, have been ar
rested upon the charge Of conspiracy to
murder.
The pihilists are alleged to have aban-
doned the system of terrorism hitherto pur.
sued in Russia, and are said to be preparing
for series of coups d'etat and revolts in
various parts OF the empire.
The mayor OF Moscow has been banished
to his estate for expressing, in the course of
the hope that constitutional government
would be granted to Russia.
Queen Victoria is reported to have devel-
oped dropsical symptoms, and her health Is
said TO be precariOus. Her journey to Bal
moral from Windsor was undertaken in op-
position to the wishes OF her physicians.
The women Of Dublin have petitioned
Premier Gladstone for the Communication Of
the sentences Of MeCaffrey and Kelly, con-
demned to death for completely in the
Ph0nix park murders.
REPATRIATION is to be the reward of the
inf0rmers In the Ph9Rix park murder trials.
James Cary has objected, but the authori-
ties imperatively require that he shall leave
the country.
Count Won MOltke's recent tour to Italy
Is believed In France to have been under
taken for the purpose of determining the
best route for an invasion of southern
France.
In a letter explaining his withdrawal from
the Parnellite party. McCOan. member of
parliament for Wicklow, alleges that the
policy Of his late assOci ,teS is communism
and rebellion thinly yelled
Davitt, Healy and Quinn, the Irish agita-
tors, have been released from Kilmainham
Jail, where they have been confined for
four months on account of utterances con-
diti0u5.
Liberty in certain directions has been con-
coded by the cZar to the dissenters from the
Greek church, who have hitherto been pro-
hibited from changing their domiciles, en-
gaging in trade holding public office, or per-
forming religious rites. .-..
In the British house of commons Mon
day, Mr. Gladstone declined to affirm or de
ny the truth Of the statement that the min.
istry had declined the services of the duke
OF Albany i'll the capacity OF governor gen.
eral Of Canada.
In addition to requiring that the que en- of
Madagascar recognize the protectOrate of
France and cOncede the rlghtOf Frenchmen
to hold property in her country the French
government will demand an indemnity of
500 600 francs for the expense OF the ex-
petition to Madagascar.
Remarks made in the British house of
commons the other day have given such of
tense to Lord Rosebery that his resignation
Of the post OF under secretary for the home
department has been rendered. John
Tomlinson HILBERT, member for Oldham,
mas been appointed Lord Rosebery's sue
lessor.
Edward Harrington, member of parlia-
ment and editor of the Kerry Sentinel, and
che publisher of the paper named have been
sentenced, for the publication of a seditious
placard to imprisonment for six months
Two WHO iSSlSLcu Ill uIlb DuD-
lication have been sentenced to two months
Imprisonment.
O'Kelly, member of parliament for Ros-
common. who was summoned before the
mousse of commons for sending challenge
to McCoan, member for Wicklow, explained
to the house Friday that he considered the
matter between McCoan and himself ended
and the subject was dropped.
On the occasion of the grand fete in cele-
grafton of the coronation, at Petroffsky
park, near Moscow, on Saturday, five per-
sons were crushed to death in the crowd
The emperor and empress drove through
Moscow Sunday, unattended. In an address
to some local dignitaries, the emperor de-
,lared the principle that property must be
Lnassailable."
The specter of the duke of Connaught rul-
ing the Indian empire as the deputy of his
mother, Queen Victoria, and the duke of
Edinburgh In Dublin castle as lord lieuten-
ant Of Ireland, Is said to have determined
the British ministry not to establish pre-
.edent by the appointment of the weakling
duke of Albany to the governor generalship
Of Canada.
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