Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The British War Office has forwarded to Gen. Wolseley $500,000 in gold coin to defray the expense of the expedition to Khartoum. M. Herve, an Orleanist, publishes an article in a Paris paper asserting that the relations between Franco and England are so strained that a rupture is feared. The Orleanists and M. Herve would hardly grieve over such an event. Lord Spencer has made a half-way surrender to the stubborn Councilmen of Limerick. Though they refused to send a deputation to wait on him, he has reduced the amount of the extra police tax demanded. He threatens to use extreme measures to collect the reduced sum. The Councilmen are not likely to yield. Lord Aylesford, whose wife deserted him and became the mistress of the Duke of Marlborough, has sold his estate in Kent, England. The prices obtained aggregated $500,000. Lord Aylesford is now living on a ranch in Texas. The Mahdi’s force is estimated at 25,000 men, of whom 10,000 are armed with Remington rifles. He has twenty Krupp guns. The City Council of Cork refused to express approval of the action of the Mayor in inviting the Duke of Edinburgh to that city. Owing to the prevalence of the cholera the Papal Consistory at Rome will not convene until December. The Chinese Government pays the cable companies about SI,OOO per day for information sent from the various European capitals. Chinese merchants are said-to be importing large stocks of goods and breadstufl's, in anticipation of a French blockade. In bidding farewell to his Midlothian constituents, who have roceived him so enthusiastically, Mr. Gladstone said the Peers ought to bo very careful and study the best means to prevent the overthrow of their order. Christine Nilsson was thrown from a cab in London, and was nearly unconscious when lifted from the pavement. At a meeting of the French Cabinet it was announced that preparations for the resumption of hostilities in China were complete. Mr. Gladstone thinks that the House of Lords'will recede from its attitude on the franchise bill. Ho expresses great pleasure at the extreme cordiality o’s his reception in Scotland. The preparations for the resumption of war operations against the Chinese are complete, says Admiral Courbet. The French Chambers will meet Oct. 14, by which time it

is expected that Courbet will have occupied the fortified heights commanding Keelung, Island of Formosa. This will be considered more va'uable than the money indemnity demanded. Lord Salisbury intends to make a seriesof 8,-eec-bes in Scotland ia’ sustainment of the Lords'atttud? on the franchise bill. It is believed that de will not be well received. Tbe British Parliament at its coming session will be asked to allow £IO,OOO per year to the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, who will become of age in January.