Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is reported that the agreement between England and Turkey regarding the government of Egypt provides that Turkish troops shall occupy Egypt with the exception of the ports of Alexandria, Damietta, Port Said, and Suez, which England - will continue to occupy; that England shall maintain garrisons in the Red Sea littoral and abandou the Soudan to Turkey; and that Tewflk Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, shall be deposed, the Sultan to appoint in his stead a Pasha who does not belong to the family of Mehemet All. Two Nihilists shot at Police Superintendent Kollert on the streets of St. Petersburg. They were arrested. The Prussian Minister of Finance reports the surplus for the year at $5,000,080, derived mainly from the receipts of State railways, whioh should be applied to the redemption of the railway debt.

A London dispatch says “it is rumored in England that the official reports of the battle at Abu-klea Wells were colored at the War Office and that the special dispatches were intercepted by the military authorities because they oontained informar tion which it was not thought desirable to communicate to the public. There h great anxiety concerning the fate of Gen. Stewart. A Paris newspaper states editor ally that the battle is to be regarded as an irremediable oheck to the advance of the British on Khartoum. Unofficial advices from the seat of war report that the rebels have surrounded Gen. Stewart’s army in the desert, where ho has taken up an intrenched position to await re-enforcements.' ’ The Crown Princess of Germany is regarded as a stronger person than her husband, and is thought to be responsible for much of the latter’s reputed liberalism. The Absolutist party, which is the real backbone of the present 'movement against England, dislikes her strongly, and will do Its best to destroy her influence. Some people believe that the ultimate result of Bismark’s policy will be nothing less than the demolition of

the British Empire, with • division of tee spoils which will give to Russia India, to France Egypt and Hong Kong, and to Germany South Africa. Russia is pushing the movement w extend her frontier southward to Core a, and the English press is urging England and America, which have large interests in Corea, to join with Japan in an endeavor to frustrate her designs. Admiral Courbet disembarked French troops and made an attempt to seize the mines of Kelung, but was repulsed with the loss of seventy-five men.