Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Bismarck has prepared a project to be laid before Parliament the coming session for the purchase by the German Empire of all railroads owned by the different states and placing the control of the same at Berlin... .Unemployed workmen to the number of 4,000 held a meeting in Gtasgow, and passed a resolution asking assistance from the Magistrates.. .It is quite probable that the Tories will Compromise with the Gladstone party in England on the franchise bill. * y Delegates representing England, America, France, Portugal,.Spain, Holland, and Belgium will attend an, international conference at Berlin in November, at which all questions relating to the Congo country will be considered. Premier Ferry is reported to have said a few days ago that France is prepared tq make arrows of every sort of wood to fire at England unless she gave satisfaction to France in reference to Egypt ... The British commodore on the Australian station has been instructed to proclaim a protectorate. over the southern coasts of New Guinea... .An army of 8,000 will be sent by the British Government to proceed agaidst the Boers for vio-

Jenoe committed beyond the boundary lines of the Transvaal country .n.. A brigade of the French army in Africa will be sent to re-enforce the troops in Tonquin...! The Mudir, of Dongola and the Governor of Merawe conthni the report of the murder of Cpl. Stewart by Arabs... ,M. Henion, a French Deputy, and’ M. Dupre, editor of L'niunc, i ought a duel with swords. Both were wounded, though not dangerously... .Lord Salisbury, leader of the Conservative party, in speech delivered at Kalso made a severe attach upon Gladstone's-redistribution' scheriie, which continues to be the topic above all others discussed by politicians.