Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Admiral Courbet has occupied KeLung without resistance, and will fortify the several positions in order to hold the place with a small force. A naval engagement between French and Chinese war vessels is reported off the Chinese coast, in which the Celestials got much the worst of it. Gieat activity is manifested by the naval officials of Germany. All the dockyards of that country are now fully manned, and the work of building new war vessels and repairing and reconstructing others is being pushed with energy. The royal palace of Denmark and the archives of the Rigsdag were destroyed by fire. Ten soldiers were burned to death while attempting to save property from the flames. It is reported that Lord Garmoyle’s father (Earl Cairns) has paid Miss Fortescue, the actress, $125,000 damages on account of his son’s failure to marry the young lady according to promise. William Hazenclever, the Socialistic Deputy to the Imperial Reichstag, has been expelled from Berlin. Valentine Baker has been restored to

bis rank in the British army, and baa been directed to hold himself in readiness to Join the expedition to Khartoum. Mr. Henry George is about to begin a series of lectures in Nor.hern England and Scotl ind on the nationalization of land. There is a growing probability that the English aristocratic party will compromise with the followers of Mr. Gladstone on the franchise bill. The Prince of Wales is acting as mediator, probably because he thinks a successful attack on the House of Lords would result in a similar assault on British royalty.