The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-15
FOREIGN.
The Right Hon. William E. Forster

Liz IlSllJ hOH. w lllldD II. l. OTSleT,
who was Chief Secretary for Ireland under the
previous Gladstone Ministry, is dead He had
been ill for some time. Mr.. Forster was IS
years of age. When Mr.. Gladstone retired from
the leadership of the opposition in 1875, Mr.
Forster declined to become the leader of the
Liberal party, and the Marquis of Harrington
was chosen Nov. Is, 1875, Mr.. Forster was
elected Lord Rector of the University of Aber-
deem He married in 1850 the eldest daughter
of the late Rev. Thomas Arnold, ID. D., head
master of Rugby School
A movement has been started in
Germany to adopt system of legal education
similar to that in vogue in Great Britain
The commander of the German gun
boat Cyclops bombarded and destroyed the
town of Moneybimbia, on the west coast of
Africa
The Tammany Society of New York
has received into full membership the follow
ing persons: Congressman W. c. Maybury,
Ezra c. Carleton, and L. E. Taysney, of Mich
igan; John II. Rogers, of Arkansas; William
Dickson, Chairman of the Democratic Central
Committee, of Washington; and Samuel Donel-
son, Doorkeeper of the House of Representa-
tiyes.
A third member of the party of wolf
bitten Russians who visited Paris to be treated
by NJ Pasteur has died Like the other two,
he showed symptoms of hydrophobia
The police of Charkoff, Russia, ar
rested four men whom they suspected of at
tempting TO wreck special train conveying
the Gar and Czarina to the Crimea
Mr.. Gladstone long-expected plan
for home rule in Ireland is at last before the
world Amid scenes of excitement, such az
have been rarely Witnessed, the grand old
man" laid his measure before the British House
of Commons on the Sth inst It's foundation may
be described in his own words: The main
spring of the law in England is felt to be En-
glsh; in Scotland to be Scotch but in Ire
land it is not felt to be Irish" That
handspring he announces to be Parliament
in Dublin "for tho conduct Of business both
legislative aud administrative In detail,
the Parliament, should the scheme be carried,
will consist of two orders sitting and vot-
ing together, except when they may dis
agree, each order to have veto on the legis-
lative action of the other for period of
three years, or until dissolution. The first
order is to consist of the twenty eight repre-
sentative Peers of Ireand-all Tories, by the
way-should they choose to sit in the new
Irish Parliament, and seventy-five members
elected by ratepayers taxed on an as
sessment of sl25. The second order
will consist OF FOG members elected
on tho present Irish franchise The
duration of the Parliament will be five years.
IL will have no power to establish or endow
any religious sect, to interfere with the pre-
negatives of the Crown in army or navy af-
fairs, or with the foreign or colonial policy OF
Great Britain. Its prcrogatives are to be
purely local, such as the passage of laws
affecting trade and navigation, weights and
measures, local taxation, and postal arrange
ments. 1t does not contemplate such
relations between Ireland and Great
Britain as exist between one of our
States and the General Government.
Mr.. Gladstone says: tAs Ireland is to have
domestic Legislature, il will therefore be i'm
possible for the Irish representatives to come
here" meaning that there will be no Irish
membership in the House of Commons.