Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-12
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES
Foreign News.

Foreign News.
LONDON, Aug. PA dispatch from
Paris says that Mgr. Stoner will be
made cardinal at the coming p&pal
consistory.
LONDON, Aug. 12.-The Telegraph
says Mr.. Chamberlain's speech IN the
House of Commons yesterday was
probably the best he ever delivered III
parliament. The Gladstonians' silence
in the debate is confession that their
alliance with the Irish is q sham and
an imposture. The sole basis OF the
agreement is desire to GUST the gov
eminent. They accept without word
of protest the charge of having concoct-
ed bogus majority merely to upset the
government, and are content to climb
into power without wasting q single
sophism in their own defence.
The Post says: Although defeated,
the unionists will re-assemble undimin-
ished in numbers and unfailing in reso-
luton. Mr.. Gladstone will have to
deal with the strongest and most
united majority that ever assembled IN
parliament.
LONDON, Aug. 12.-The Pail Mall
Gazette QiberaD says: "Mr. Glad
stones triumph is Mr.. Parnell's also.
Twenty years ago Mr.. Parnell had not
even entered parliament; before he
died he had converted nine out of ten
Irishmen against revolutionary meth
eds. The effect oftheidivision is irrevo-
cable. Difficulties and delays in home
rule there may be, but its final adoption
is now inevitable" The 81. James Ga
sette Conservative says: ''The govern
ment was elected by majority simply
going it blind for the grand old man
and half understood idea If the dis
aster results in increased taxation, ma
lignant chickering's with France, dis
graceful retreat from Egypt, an open
breach with Russia in Central Asia and
other outrstges and rioting in Ireland
the country has itself to thank" At u
meeting of the cabinet to-day the min
lister formally agreed to resign. Most
of the ministers will leave town to-day.
At one O'Clock this afternoon Lord
Salisbury left London on a special
train for Portsmouth, whence he will
embark. for the Isle of Wight. His des-
tination is Osborne House where he
will tender to the Queen the resigna-
ton OF the conservative ministry.
Mr.. Gladstone has been saved one
journey to Osborne House, the Queen
having this afternoon conveyed her
commands to him by General The
Right Honorable Sir Frederick Pom
sonby, her private secretary to form
ministry. Mr.. Gladstone will go to
Osborne House on Monday to fulfil the
usual custom of kissing the hands of
HcI HidJeStS-
DUBLIN, Aug. 1.-THE Eeeman's
Journal, after remarking that the ma
jority against the Salisbury government
is ten more than that which rejected
home rule, says: at is more than
a reversal of the decision which hand
ed Ireland over to the rule of coerc-
ionists."
BERLIN, Aug. 12-Anton Wolf, for
merly chief partner in the banking firm
of Hirschfeld & Wolf, of this city,
whose failure at the end of 1891 caused
great sensation in financial and social
circles, was sentenced to-day to 10years
Imprisonment and the loss Of his civil
rights for five years.
VIENNA, Aug. IA clerk in this
city named Johann Singer, who had
been out of employment for some time
and who saw no means of supporting
the woman with whom he was living
and by whom he had three children,
determined to kill them and then COM
nit suicide. He started charcoal fire
in the room in which the woman and
children were asleep and inhaling the
fumes they all died. Singer died short
ly after his victims.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 12.-Thc Arab insur-
rection has developed into a general
rising of the Arabs of Central Africa
against white domination. Twenty
agents of Ut Katanga company have
been killed or captured by Arabs. A
steamer was seized and the factories
were RACED