Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Sixty pictures and one statuette in the Royal Academy in London have been mysteriously defaced, and the vile still keeps up. Notwithstanding the apparent prospect of peace Russian war preparations are being pressed with extraordinary vigor. There is an immense movement of troops in progress toward Central Asia, and large bodies of infantry, cavalry, field artillery, and rallwuy and telegraph builders are pressing forward in a continuous stream through the transeaucasian provinces, across the Caspian Sea, and eastward toward the Afghan frontier. The Russian defenses on the Black Sea and around about Sebastopol are being pressed with feverish energy. Victor Hugo leaves a fortune estimated at $2,500,000. The wreath sent by Lord Tennyson to be placed upon the body of Victor Hugo, was inscribed; “To the world’s greatest poet.” A telegram from Tien-tsin announces that all the articles of the treaty cf peace between France and China have been agreed to, and the treaty signed. A proposed visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland has been abandoned, owing to pie unfavorable condition of her health. Sir Charles Dilke returned from Ireland still opposed to the renewal of tho crimes act, and it is said that the Government will effect a compromise by passing a bill of a mild character, and limited in its operation to one year. It is asserted at St. Petersburg that Russia’s acceptance of the English proposa's was due to the Czar’s friendship for the British Cabinet and his desire to db nothing which would hazard a return of the Tory party in England to power. The concession of Maruchak and Tulfikur to Afghanistan, it was represented, would strengthen the Liberals, who are regarded as more friendly to Russia. M. Lessar, the Russian Special Commissioner, will start immediately from London to join Col. Ridgeway in Afghanistan for the purpose of carrying out the special details of the work of marking the Afghan frontier.