Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The cholera epidemic at Toulon and Marseilles shows no indication of abating, says a cable dispatch. A panic was created at Toulon by the arrival of 100 coffins ordered from Marseilles. In order to allay the excitement it was found necessary to send the coffins back. The Russian Government has ordered strict guard at the frontier railway stations against the introduction of the disease, and the Spanish Government has established a strong sanitary cordon in the Pyrenees. Cases of cholera are reported to have occurred at Paris, Vienna, and Madrid. It is probable that the conference of the European powers on the Egyptian question will result in nothing. France refuses to— agree to England's financial proposals, It is not likely that the conference will meet again, although Lord Granville is empowered to call the members together at any time The steamers Gijon and Laxham collided off Corunna, Spain, and both sunk almost immediately. Fifty-six persons were landed, and it is believed that no lives were lost. ....King John of Abyssinia announces his purpose to abolish slavery and the slave trade in his dominions... .The cholera has appeared at Brignoles. and other points in the south of. France. The French Academy of Medicine pro-; poses an international congress to discuss the prevention and cure of cholera. Dr. Koch has asked that the congress meet in Berlin. A Marseilles dispatch says: “The aspect here is becoming somber. The steamer which arrives weekly from Algeria is suppressed. The line to Syria is stopped. The South American packets have ceased to call here. The customs offices and quays are deserted. There are many funerals during the night, the burials being performed by the aid x of lanterns. The Mayor has interdicted the annual fair, and forbids the processions of Aug. 15.’’ A fire at the Wapping docks, London,, swept away property valued at $2,500,000. About 1,000 tons of pepper, nearly one-third of the entire stock in London, was destroyed. Michael Davitt was presented with an address in Tralee, Ireland. In replying, he said it was the duty of every Irishman in Great Britain and Ireland to assist in the movement against the House of Lords. Referring to American politics, he said that Irish-Americans should vote as citizens of the Republic. To America they owed their first duty. He alluded in complimentary terms to Gen. Butler... .Mexico is offering in the London market, at 75 per cent., bonds to the amount of $30,000,000, bearing 7 per cent, interest. A special correspondent who has visited Marseilles cables that from what he has seen in that place “no intelligent. community of well-ordered lives and wellmanaged sewer-pipes need have any alarming fear” of the cholera. The epidemic, he says, prevails only in the poor quarters of the city, where there are no sewers, where fetid water is collected in pools, or flows along the streets, spreading its poisonous breath all round. There were thirty-six deaths from cholera at Marseilles, eleven at Toulon, and thirteen at Arles on the 27th of July. . . .The French Government will agree to some if England’s

flnancial proposals with regard to Egypt if the law of liquidation is modified and the proposals are limited to a term of two years.'... A statue to Robert Burns was unveiled in London by Lord Roseberry. It is Situated on the Thames embankment. .. .The long-looked-for Liberal demonstration at Manchester, England, was a great success, about 40,00.0 people being present. John Bright, the Radical, presided, and made a fiery speech. The counter Tory demonstration at Hyde Park was a failure... .China has agreed io pay France an indemnity of 20,000,000 francs for the Lang Son affair. : •• • • The Siberian plague Ims appeared in China.