Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A decree divorcing Mme. Patti and Marquis de Caux has been issued at Paris. De Lesseps and Admiral Galiber have submitted to the French Government a plan for a canal from Havre to Marseilles, which shall be navigable for the largest ironclads. By permission of the Ameer, English officers will supervise work on the defenses of Herat. A run on the Hibernian Bank at Dublin was caused by the failure of the Munster Bank. Tho Lord Lieutenant recommends the Government to aid the latter concern. As a precautionary measure, the officials of the Hibernian Bank demand that depositors shall give them a week’s notice of their intention to withdraw funds. The announcement that- the Earl of Carnarvon will personally investigate tho Maamtrasna, Barbaville, and Castle Island murder cases is hailed by leading Irish journals as a substantial concession by the British Government to the demands of justice. The Marquis of Salisbury and the Marquis Tseng signed the new opium treaty between China and Great Britain, by which tho interior of the Chinese Empire is opened up freely to the opium trade. It is estimated that the cost of putting the French navy in first-class condition will be $6,000,030. Two German banking houses are negotiating a loan of $100,003,000 to China for the construction of railways, wharves, telegraph lines, and other improvements of a similar character. Considerable commotion has been caused in London social circles by the blackballing of a number of Americans in tho Bachelors’ Club for apparently no other reason than their nationality. Teams representing the two houses of Parliament had a shooting match at Wimbledon, the Peers defeating the Commoners by a score of 277 to 270. Earl Spenoer, Jata Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, made the beat record among the Lords. Tho Marquis of Salisbury, Sir Stafford Northcote, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach held a consultation with Baron De Staal, Russian Embassador to London, and notwithstanding the reported advance of Russian troops toward Herat, assurance is again given that the settlement of tho Afghan question is progressing in a satisfactory manner.