Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Prince Alexander of Bulgaria offers to abdicate In favor of any person the Czar may select, If the latter will guarantee to maintain the union between Boumelia and Bulgaria. A warlike feeling prevails In Bussia. The Sultan has formed a new Ministry, with Kianul Pasha as Grand Vizier. The feeling at Philippopolis in favor of revolution is reported to be dying out. Traffic between Servia and Boumelia has been suspended,and warlike preparations are in active progress in die former country. Great excitement over the situation prevails at all the European capitals. The signatory Powers all favor a conference for the settlement of the existing complications. Grecian forces are massing on tho frontier bordering on Thessaly.

Iu an address before a great crowd at London Mr. Chamberlain said he would never become a member of a Cabinet which did not adopt reform measures. Newman Hail’s complimentary reference to the royal family brought forth a storm, of derision which lasted several minutes. Pope Leo has agreed to mediate between Germany and Spain with regard to tho Carolino dispute, subject to certain conditions which havo not yet been promulgated. The Turkish Ministry has been dismissed and a now Cabinet formed. The new Ministry is said to be in favor of a compromise in order to secure a peaceful settlement of the questions at issue. Kianui Pasha, the new Grand Vizier, was formerly Turkish Ambassador to Bussia, and maintains friendly relations with the Czar’s ministers.

Thomas W. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazelle , Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army, and tho other defendants in the Eliza Armstrong abduction case havo been committed for trial. Archbishop Walsh has sent circulars to the priests in the various parishes of Irelaud advising them what course to follow in a political way. Tho Archbishop admits that in taking this step he has incurred a serious responsibility. The coming Parliamentary elections in Great Britain and Ireland continue to be tho principal matters to which the peoplo are devoting their attention. The Liberal Association has instructed its candidates to avoid, as far as possible, discussion of tho church disestablishment It is, however, being forced upon them by parties attending their meetings.

In bis speech opening the Reiohsrath the Emperor of Austria declared that tho great powers were in full accord for the preservation of the peace of Europe. Russia is said to favor the holding of a congress at Constantinople to settle tho pending difficulties upon the basis of accepting the union of Roumelia and Bulgaria as an accomplished fact. In a circular note to the powers, Greece urges that the treaty of Berlin bo enforced.