Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN.
At a council of the Egyptian Cabinet, over which the Khedive presided, it was resolved to inform the British Government that the immediate dispatch of troops .to Upper Egypt is imperatively necessary. Great Britain has 6ent to all the powers which signed tho treaty of Berlin invitations to a conference on Egyptiau affairs, to devise Eome means of negotiating a loan of £SOOO,OOO for the' imperiled country. The Paris journals deradnd lor France a fair share of influence and authority on the banks of the Nile. It has been announced for the hundredth time at least that Mr. John O’Connor Power has withdrawn from the Irish Parnellite party. The fact is that ha has been expelled from that organization. It is said that he wl 1 hot again seek election from anIrish constituency, but that he will be an independent Lateral candidate in some English borough. O'Connpr Power was once a leading Fenian, and, it is said, was commissioned by a lodge of Fenian conspirato s In' Cleveland at one time to, kidnap the Prince of Wales. Up did not deliver the goods. The King of Abyssinia has accepted a proposition,from the English to invade the Soudan, relieve the Egyptian garrisons, and aid them in escape. A friend of Gen. Gordon
at Caird charges that Zebebr Pasha is responsible for the recent uprising north of Khartoum.... A bridge utCiudad Real, Spain, was cut by some malicious parties. A passenger train passing over was precipitated Into the river. Many persons were killed and twenty we e severely injured.... Tbe report that Bismarck had decided to oppose u British protectorate over Egypt is semi officially confirmed, it Is also reported that Minister Ferry has r«eel.ed overtures from Berlin looking to an alliance between France and Germany, which ho Is sa dto be advocating... .The Grand Master of Orangemen at Belfast lias roceived a letter of warning from tho Jnvincibies... ..John Daly, the susrected dynamiter, has been transferred from Liverpool to Birkenhead. r r
