Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A motion in favor of an established bimetallic standard currency was rejected by the German ReichstagThe Russian Ambassador at London had an interview with Premier Gladstone "on the sth inst., and communicated the contents of a number of dispatches received from St. Petersburg in relation to the frontier difficulty in Afghanistan. Mr. Gladstone stated in the House of Commons that public policy forbade his answering questions about the complications with Russia. The Chinese Government has ordered home all its subjects now studying in French schools. Advices from London report that Baron Staal, the Russian Ambassador, has promised that the Russian troops shall retire. The Royal Irish Rifles, nearly nine hundred strong, the only regiment at Halifax, has been ordered to make ready for active duty, and expects to be sent to the Soudan. One hundred and twenty-three of the 147 men in the colliery at Karwin Austrian Silesia, at the time of the explosion, have been found dead. Only five have been found alive. It is suggested by the Pall Mall Gazette that the best tribute to Gordon’s memory would be the formation of a “Gordon Free State” on the plan of the Congo Free State, to embrace the Nile territory and hold that great waterway in the interest of trade and civilization. Gen. Wolseley has issued an address to the soldiers and sailors of the Nile expedi-

tion complimenting them tn behalf of the Queen for their courage and self-devotion, and promising to lead them to Khartoum in the autumn. Notwithstanding the pacific assurances of Russia, the British War Office is dispatching troops to India with all possible ■peed. The number sent is limited only by the means of transportation. A troop ship which arrived recently from India was ordered to return at once to Bombay with 1,200 soldiers. These troops are needed to partly supply the places of those sent to the Afghan frontier!