Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Official Gazette of the Berlin Court publishes the order of Bismarck inStructlngVon Elsendecker to return the American House of Representatives its resolution expressing the friendly sorrow of America for the death of Herr Lasker while visiting this country. The German Chancellor’s grounds for thus Insulting America are, that the resolution of condolence contained an opinion regarding the object and effect of Herr Lasker’s “political activity” (career), which opinion was opposod to Bismarck’s convictions. Bismarck therefore refused to ask the permission of the Emperor to transmit to its proper destination the mis" sive of the House of Representatives, to the Reichstag, because, had the Prince so prayed) he would have been forced officially to advocate an opinion he did not believe to be correct. The action of Bismarok, says a Berlin dispatch, continues to excite much comment. The friends of the deceased statesman in the Reichstag propose to demand of Bismarck an explanation of his conduct. Great failures are reported from provincial cities of France. The liabilities sum up about $2,C03,000. A broker hanged himself. A bank Involved In the crash had 8,600,000 francs of deposits, mostly peasants’ earnings. Another Liverpool commission man has failed. His liabilities are $175,000. Queen Victoria has given her consent to the appointment of a royal commission on dwellings of the poor. The Prince of Wales addressed the House of Lords on the subject, saying he was gratified a commission had been appointed to look into the matter. A Cairo dispatch of Feb. 22 reports that Tokar had surrendered to the Egyptian rebels. A portion of the garrison at Khartoum had left the town. There were 82,000 British troops at Trinkitat and 1,200 at Suakim. Gen. Gordon telegraphed Admira 1 Hewett to call a conference of sheiks to arrange terms of peace, and to ask Osman Dlgma to meet him at Khartoum. A London dispatch says that Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign AU

fairs, has directed Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister at Bt. Petersburg, to ask of the Russian Government an explanation full and explicit of their annexation of the Merv Oasis. Minister Thornton is at the same tima to protest against this action as a breach of the assurances given to England by the Czar Alexander. The prohibition of the importation of American pork into Greece nas been abolished. The English press unites in condemning Bismarck’s letter on the resolution. ,