Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The British Parliament was prorogued Aug. 14. The Queen’B speech announces the resumption of diplomatic relations with Mexico and the conclusion of an agreement for a treaty of commerce. The claim is made that agrarian crime in Ireland has diminished, and that there has been a substantial improvement in the condition oi the people of that country. The second Duke of Wellington, Arthur Richard Wellesley, dropped dead a Brighton, while entering a railway-coach. The cholera seems to be extending in the small towns of Southern France, but is dying out at Toulon and Marseilles. By the bursting of a gas-engine in an envelope factory In London the building was set on Are. Escape being cut off, many women were injured by leaping from the windows. The British expedition for the rebel of Khartoum and the rescue of Gordon will be half military and half naval. The sailors will be required to do most of the work. Gen. Wolseley is the author of the plan of the cam paign, and will get the full credit If It succeeds. If ltfails Mr. Gladstone will, no doubt, be held responsible. English journals are eloquent in theii expression of disgust at the alleged cannibalism of the Greely arctic expedition. The English arctic explorers, with the exception of Benjamin Leigh Smith, however, express neither disgust nor astonishment, and seem

to think that cannibalism under the circumstances could hardly be prevented. Hanlan, the oarsman, met defeat in Australia, in a contest with Beach for the championship of the world and £SOO a side. Lord Dufferin has assured the Sultan that Lord Northbrook’s mission to Egypt does not indicate any change in England's Egyptian policy. Visitors to London from India are said to have recently Imported in tbe.’r haggage large numbers of mosquitoes of a very poisonous character. They are causing much annoyance to the Londoners.