Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1878 — GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Several members of the French Chamber of Deputies having been unseated recently, on the ground of illegal proceedings at'the election, Admiral Touchard, on behalf of the Right, moved that henceforth a two-thirds majority be necessary to declare an election invalid. Gambetta opposed the motion. He called the previous question, and made a vigorous attack on the minority. A stormy scene ensued, but al the close Gambetta’s motion for the previous question was adopted—3l2 against 186. Soldiering in the Mexican army is not an affair of flowery beds of ease. President Diaz has inaugurated a system of industry among his idle troops by which they will be kept out of mischief and earn their pay. Ho has set them to work at draining the Mexican valley »rail improving the roads. The question between the Argentine Republic and ('hili concerning the Patagonian frontier has been arranged by agreeing to submit it to arbitration, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of 185f>. One hundred thousand pounds in gold was withdrawn from the Bank of England for New York, the other day. Kashgar has been completely subjugated by the Chinese. The Greek Ministers have all tendered their resignations. A great drought and intensely hot weather prevail in Now South Wales. Advices from the City of Mexico report that the Mexican Government has determined to hereafter oppose the crossing of the Rio Grande by American troops. The young King Alphonso, of Spain, was married in great splendor to his cousin, the Princess Mercedes, at Madrid, on the 23d of January. In Northern China, according to reports from the United States Consul at Shanghae, a frightful famine is raging, and children are daily sold in the markets for food.