Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The stringent commercial regulations just adopted by Russia, which seem to ba directed chiefly at Germany, are bitterly denounced by the semi-official press of the latter country. The proposed increase of the German corn duty also causes much apprehension in Austria-Hungary. Advices from China say that the steamer Banton, plying between Singapore, Penang, and Malacca, was run into by the steamer Fair. Peqang and sank in half an hour. Of the 230 persons aboard only fifty are known to have been saved. Most of those lost were natives. A complete rupture is reported between the French Cabinet and the Budget Committee of the Chamber, of Deputies over a refusal to accept a reduction in the Government estimates of 13,0)0,000. The French Government has closed a factory near Luneville owned by a German who employed m>n belonging to the German imperial army. This actio’ll is supposed to be the forerunner of other reprisals against the Germane. The Russian Government persists in its refusal to abate any of its claims regarding the Afghan frontier. The Czar declined to receive the members of the British Commission while they were at St Petersburg. A commercial crisis prevails at Odessa, Russia, where the bankruptcy courts are said to be crowded with the cases of old-es-tablished and hitherto prosperous business firms. The London Times is printing another senes of sensational articles, entitled “Behind the Scenes in America,” intended to show that the policy of Mr. Parnell and Mr. Gladstone is “ultimately dictated” by Mr. Patrick Ford and other advocates of crime. The agreement between England and Turkey includes the British evacuation of Egypt in three years. The Queen made a triumphal journey through London on the 14th inst, from Paddington station to Mile End, at the extreme eastern limit, a distance of eight miles, where she formally opended the “People’s Palace.” The metropolis was brilliantly decorated in honor of the occasion, and great crowds lined the streets through which the royal procession passed. It was the first Majesty had visite l the East End in many years. The Marquis of Salisbury desires to send a note to Russia, intimating in vigorous language that no further negotiations will be entertained by England, and that any violation of the status quo of the boundary line of Afghanistan will be considered by England as a causus belli The American Exposition in London is daily gaining in public favor, and enormous crowds visit Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. When the Queen visited the show Sergeant Bates advanced and presented the American flag, whereupon the Queen stepped Airward and'ceremoniously bowed toward the flag as it was lowered.