Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Parisian journals of all shades of opinion angrily resent the strictures of the London press on Admiral Courbet’s conduct at Foo Chow, and remind them that they approved of Admiral Seymour’s shelling Alexandria after the Egyptians had shown the white flag. Paul de Cassagnac advocates a withdrawal from any and every alliance with England and the adoption of friendly relations with Germany.... Paris dispatches state that after Admiral Courbet has destroyed the forts on the Nin River, between the arsenal and the river’s mouth, he will join Admiral Lespes before Ke Lung, and arrange for the occupation of that place... .An earthquake shock lasting thirty seconds was felt in the Island of Jersey, in the English Channel. There was no damage. The British Government has decide to increase the Khartoum expedition to 7,000 men. Seven hundred Royal Scots will be sent from the West Indies, the remainder from Gibraltar, Malta, and Cyprus. Gen. Wolseley proposes to reach Dongola by Nov. 7, as he has but six cataracts to pass. Alderman Denison, of Toronto, will command the Canadian voyageurs. It is repoif ed that Germany and France have entered into a secret alliance. The terms are understood to be that Germany will let France have her own way in China, and that France will not put any obstacle in the way of Germany if (he .latter nation should think proper to annex a portion of Holland. Both nations agree to help each other in pushing their colonial designs. The report of the alliance causes uneasiness in England..,. Reports come from Sontay that a Chinese army 80,000 strong annihilated the French in Tonquin. It is semi-officially announced from Paris that Admiral Courbet will hold the island of Formosa until China pays the indemnity demanded... .Gen. Wolseley has been appointed to the command of the expedition for the relief of Khartoum. The appointment was considered necessary owing to the report of Gen. Stephenson that the plan of campaign thus far pursued would end in disaster.... Richard Tweed* eldest son of the bite William M. Tweed, of New York, died in a Paris mad-house. It is understood he left little or no property A private letter to a gentleman in Des Moines from Ireland states that the crops in that country are the most promising since 1879, but that thousands of ncres are lying in waste for want of labor to cultivate them..... The courts in Paris have imposed long terms of imprisonment and heavy fines upon the officers of the wrecked Bank of Lyons and Loire. —k dispatch from Foo- Chow states that the Frenoh iron-clads resumed the attacks on the forts on the Min River, between its mouth and the arsenal, at an early hour on the morning of Ang. 28. The forts at the Kinpai Pass offered a determined resistance, bnt the superiority of the French gunners soon began to tell on the works. Gun after gun was dislodged, until finally the Chinese became demoralized at the sight of the destruction going on and fled from the fortresses, leaving everything behind them. Admiral Courbet then directed his attack on the forts higher up and made short work of them, as the garrisons had become panic-stricken at the sight and fire of the fleet, and hastily abandoned the defenses, leaving the French masters of the whole line of fortifications en the Min River up to the arsenal. When the French had descended the river after the attack upon the forts the Chinese looted and burned the foreign quarter. It now appears that there was no foundation for the report of the defeat of the French forces in Tonquin. Gen. Millot, the French commander in that province, has telegraphed to Paris that he awaits the advance of the Celestials with impatience. ... .A corps of veteran soldiers is being organized in Germany for service abroad, This is in accordance with the policy of Bismarck’s colonial extension.... A movement has been inaugurated in Spaiu in favor of the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope, .. . .Frauds amounting to £BO,OOO have been discovered in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance. Foreign officials of high 6tand ng are implicated A steamer from Marseilles, with two cholera cases on board, arrived off Cardiff, Wales. It was quarantined.... Jndge Taft, the American Minister to Russia, has arrived at St Petersburg. He succeeds the late Jndge Hunt * Admiral Courbet officially reports the complete Buccees of the operations against the foTts along the Min River, The French loss, he says, was ten killed, thirteen seri-

ously and twenty-eight slightly wounded. The Admiral commends the gallantry of his officers and men. The French missionaries have been officially expelled from Hong Kong. All of the French residents have left Canton, and the military commanders have all received orders to attack all French war ships and merchant vessels which attempt to enter the leading treaty ports, and those in port have been ordered to depart at once The British Government has ordered 250,000 pounds of Chicago Compressed beef for the use of the troops of the proposed Soudan expedition.