Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

THE condition of affairs at Cairo is re- | ported .as deplorable.- The preparations for the Nile expedition have caused wild and reckless expenditures, and affahs, both eml and military, are careless aud extravagant. Scores of British officers are lounging about hotels, awaiting orders, and incurring heavy bills A procession of nearly otie hundred thousand persons marched through the streets in the vicinity of Hyde Park, with flags and banners, calling for the abolition of the House 8f Lords.... The French Government has decided to send an additional force of 15,000 men to Tonquin. Owing to the menacing attitude .of the Chinese, all the French consuls in the country have been

ordoied tqShanghai... .The(French people refuse to* believe the report t in regard t? successful war operations in China', and the Government is making public reports of elaborate preparations by Admirals Courbet and Lespes. .TJie activity of the .Socialists in Ger-, many in anticipation of coming, elections has Caused the Government t,o begin a eru*. eade against them, land many arrests of agitators, and the destruction of socialistic documents, are reported. Sarah Bernhardt is very ill from nervous prostration, -rv. .The Russian authorities hnye arrested ' Lapatin, the 'Nihilist leader. Twenty students were arrested ifi Warsaw.