Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The police of Paris arrested James Stephens, Eugene Davis, and other lead.ng Fenians, escorted them to the frontier, and warned them not to return. They have gone into Belgium. It is said that the Mahdi has evacuated Metemneh, fearing an invasion of the Soudan from Abssynia. Osman Digma is concentrating a large force at Tamanieb to oppose Gen. Graham's advance toward Berber. Zebehr Pasha, whom Gen. Gordon desired to make Governor of Khartoum, has been sent on board a British frigate at Alexandria, documents having been found in his house establishing his complicity with the Mehdi. Following is a summary of the situation in the Soudan, as telegraphed by cable from London: Gen. Graham's arrival at Suakin was bailed with joyful acclamation by the troops, who have hod anything but an easy time lately, owing to constant attacks by the Arabs. Gen. Graham has ordered radical changes in the lines of defense on the land side of the town. A general advance toward the interior is to be made immediately. The first objective point will be Sinkat, where an intrenched camp is to be established for the summer. In the autumn the army will proceed to Bcrter. Incidentally to the march upon Sinkat Osman Digma will have to be whipped. Osman, however, has issued a proclamation promising to capture Suakin and to destroy the British. The British Government has prepared an extradition bill authorizing an amendment to all British treaties, wit a a view to surrender persons charged with murder, malicious wounding, or conspiracy to murder any ruler, sovereign, or member of

any royal family, and also persons charged with the illicit manufacture or storage of explosives. It was decided at the meeting of the Gordon Memorial Committee m London that the memorial should be a great hospital and sanitarium, to be erected at Port Said, opsn to the people of all nations. The Prince of Wales presided at the meeting of the committee, and among the members present were Lord Granville and the Dukes of Cambridge and Edinburg. The Khedive has already granted a site for the proposed hospital.