Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Servian and Bulgarian trobps continue to indulge in desultory conflicts along the frontier. The depression in the shipbuilding trade on the Clyde is increasing. The Indian Government has formally declared war against Burmah, with the sanction of Queen Victoria, and sent forward an invading army of 15,000 men. London factory girls mobbed Mr. Charles Edward Lewis, M. P., and, as the dispatches state, treated him “in a most shameful manner. ” Mr. Gladstone, m a speech at Edinburgh, expressed his ignorance of an attempt to make church disestablishment a test question. He thought it impossible for Parliament to deal satisfactorily with the Irish issue except through a party sufficiently powerful to ignore the Irish vote. Descending to personalities, he denied that he felled trees on Sundays or owned land in Russia. The British Government has ordered that Mr. Stead, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, receive treatment as a first-class misdemeanant while iu prison. This is a mark of consideration for the convicted editor. The Emporer of China is reported to bo now favorably disposed toward railroad enterprises in his dominion, and ready to aid an American syndicate with subsidies. Two wars are now being waged in the old world. The Servians have invaded Bulgaria and the British have invaded Burmah. The Servians want to. seize and annex a part of Bulgaria becauso Southern Bulgaria has annexed itself to Northern Bulgaria. The British covet Burmah for the additional trade it will give them and the trade route it will afford them into China. Great relief committees have been formed to assist tho Russian Poles, compelled to leave Prussia because of Bismarck’s continued enforcement of his edict of exile. Great suffering exists among the Poles, who in some cases are ordered to leave by thousands. The marriage of the Infanta Eulalie of Spain to the son of tho Due de Montpensier is fixed for Feb. 11. Trains loaded with soldiers are constantly leaving Philippopolis for the front. The meu of the national guard have been summoned to join their commands. Prince Alexander complains that the Servean agent in Bulgaria withheld for eight hours the declaration of war. Russian newspapers declare that the Czar can not permit Bulgaria and Servia to tear each other to pieces. The Sultan has contracted with a steamship line for the transportatiofl-'. of thirty more battalions from Asia Minor to European Turkey, England has assured the Porte of her intention to do her utmost to preserve the integrity of Turkey. The Bulgarian government has asked Turkey for assistance. A dispatch from Belgrade days that the immediate reason for Servia’s declaration of war against Bulgaria was a fight between troops of the two countries near Vlosina. The Servian forces have captured Trn and occupied the heights. * ■ , ~