Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Cetewayo, the chief of the Zulus, was killed in a recent battle. . The London Times says that the area of wheat planted in the United Kingdom is less than that of last year, and the yield will be below the average. Recent heavy rains have checked the progress of cereals. A Cairo dispatch says the Sanitary Commission there will establish three additional hospitals and organize an ambulance corps. The Khedive and his Ministers have gone to the infected region. Eight hundred inhabitants of Bulak are in tents, surrounded by a cordon, and dying of famine. One death among the British troops is reported. Misfortunes are showering upon poor Egypt. It is now reported that leprosy has appeared a few miles to the southward of Damietta, and is spreading rapidly. Rinderpest has also appeared among the cattle herds, and is playing havoc among the bovinea The English Government has dispatched twelve physicians, who are experts in cholera, to Egypt. A serious outbreak of cholera is reported at Bombay, in India. Several cases* of the disease axe reported by correspondents of New York papers to have occurred in London, and the presence of the pestilence is being suppressed by the British authorltiea In the House of Commons, Gladstone announced he would not ask Parliament at this session to sanction the Suez canal agreement made with DeLesseps. The members of the opposition cheered the announcement Additional advices from Zululand relative to the death of King Cetewayo at the hands of the insurgents, say that all his wives and many of his chiefs were also killed. Harrington, Irish member of Parliament, whose brother, an editor, was recently sent to prison for his opinions, is hard at work reviving the spirit of organization which in the old Land League did so much in a beneficial way for the farmers of Ireland. Branches of the new league will soon exist in every hamlet of the Old Sod Cholera is reported at Rostov, Russia, and several deaths have occurred Official advices from India state 1,161 deaths from cholera occurred in the Bom•bay Presidency during the first week in July. 1 In the famous trial of Hungarian Hebrews for murdering a Christian girl, the public prosecutor states that there is no ground for further criminal proceedings: Gen. Wallace, the American Minister at Constantinople, has reiterated his demand to the Porte for the prolongation of the treaty of commerce between Turkey and the United States, but agreeing to a revision of the tariff.

Prof. Putlitz (not Znpntlitz, as heretofore given) who killed himself at Berlin after drawing the death lot in a so-called tawrimn duel, refused to.fight a duel in the osdinary way because his antagonist was short-sighted. His death attracts serious attention to the dueling mania Spain has recalled her Minister from Mexico on account of the debt question. Mexico had recently been agreeing to pay England, but had refused to bestow on Spain even the airy financial satisfaction of a promise