Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Of 200 Turkish soldiers ordered from one of the Egyptian garrison towns to Assouan, In the Soudan, 130 deserted whon the order was given. Tho other seventy deserted on arriving at Assouan. The Egyptian army appears to te utterly demoralized, If not wholly in sympathy with the Mahdi.

The French Premier and the Chinese Minister at Paris are discussing the responsibility for the first shot at Lang-Sou, on which depends the payment of indemnity. A number of Alsatian students stopping at the Hotel Continental, Paris, recently pulled down the German flags and burned them. The French Embassador at Berlin has made apology for the offense, which could hardly have been restrained by the French authorities; but this does not satisfy the German journalists, who demand that tho students be summarily punished, and Prince Hohenlohe has called tho attention of the French Foreign Office to the affair.

China rejects the demands of France, and war appears to be inevitable. Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire iron manufacturer, reports the iron trade in England in a wretched oonditlon, that American rails are selling lower than ever, and that many of the mills will probably shut down. An attempt was made to explode with gunpowder the monument to Lord Hubert at Salisbury, England. Parnell’s paper, United Ireland , ridicules the F.nglish Liberal agitation against the British House of Lords. Bismarck has ordered plans for a canal from the Baltio to the North Sea, and will ask the Reichstag to make an appropriation for its construction.

Twenty-five persons were killed and forty Boriously injured by a railroad accident on the Manchester and Sheffield Railroad, near l enniston, England. Owing to the breaking of an avle tho train jumped the track and fell through a bridge. Ferdinand von Hochstetters, a,noted German geologist, is doad. It is reported that China has practically agreed to the terms of France, will pay the indemnity, and thus avoid a war. A son of United States Consul Piatt was drowned near Queenstown, Cork, while beating on the River Lee. A second son was rescued, but his recovery is doubtful. Queen Victoria is about to be visited by her daughter, the Crown Princess of Germany. There has been a coolness between

the two for several years, and it took a visit to the latter from the Empress of Germany to settle the quarrel. John Bright is preparing a measure for the reform of the House of Lords, based upon the principle of life peerages with a limited number of hereditary peerages. The British Tories are organizing demonstrations against the Government to counteract the effects of the Liberal meetings denouncing the course of the House of Lords on the franchise bill. Various Tory Peers are suggesting compromise, hut without effect so far.