Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Hanlan, the Canadian champion oarsman, was defeated by Beach, of Australia, in their race over the champions’ course on the Paramatta River, Sydney, N. S. W. Hanlan was six lengths behind at the finish. The attendance was enormous The weather was favorable and the water smooth. Both oarsmen were in excellent condition. The Celestials have scored another victory, they having carried the intrenchments at Langson, securing the key to the position and forcing the invaders to retreat beyond Dong-Dang alopg the Lougkoi. The losses are unknown. The Orientals have 50,000 men and seriously threaten the French lines of communication with the South. Gen. Briere de I’lsle has asked for 20,000 men. The Russian orgjm, Le Nord, published at Brussels, priits a letter from St. Petersburg which is retarded as good authority, and says; “Prest nt Russian military movements are nothirg tut precautionary measures, dictated by the most elementary principles of national irudence.” The same paper states editorially that the people of Russia regard the whole quarrel with no trace of irritation. A xmdon dispatch states there is a lull there in tle war scare. The call for the army reserve: and militia alarmed the people, and after the subsidence of the first excitement t ley are asking what number are to be put i nder arms. The Ministry, it is claimed, have allowed reports to circulate without cont •adiction that in fact no more than 25,000 mm are wanted. This is just about enough t< fill the vacancies in the muster rolls cause: by the recent draft for the Egyptian and N editerranean stations. Gladstone replied to tie most pressing requests as to the true i nport of the Queen’s summons by saying hat the Government had decided to postpone all statements upon the subject until after Easter, hoping in the meantime to meet wit h some arrangement with Russia. After two weeks of active campaigning, during which several hundred lives have been lost, Gen. Grahajn’s camp js just two miles nearer Berber than when he started from Suakin. The army is suffering from typhoid fever and dysentery. The Berber Railway has not yet been begun. The cable chronicles the death of Prince Orloff, the Russian diplomat, at Fontainebleau. The “’Varsity” race of 1885 on the Thames, at London, between the Oxford and Cambridge crews, was won by the former by three lengths; time, 21:36. Dr. Higgins, the Catholic Bishop of Kerry, at a meeting held in Killarney, offered a resolution to the effect that an address of welcome be presented to the Prince and Princess of Wales, and was greeted with hisses and groans. The resolution was finally carried. A cablegram from London says Parliament believes that peace will continue between England and Russia, while the court is certain that war is at hand.