Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Admiral uouu. vs :1 I’leuvb naval vietoiy in CliinW waters. The French torpedo-boats suP? two Chinese men-of-war, three others escaping in a fog. French residents at Shanghai have been placed uPder Russian protection... .It is imported that Lord Dufferin, Vicerby of India, has asked for 20,000 British soldiers to re-enforce the garrisons in India, which, he says, are absurdly weak in view of the prospects of a Russian advance by way of Afghanistan.... Carl Herman, aged 22, of Bloomingiugton. Hl., has been seized in Germany, and will be forced to serve tie allotted term in the aimy unless the American Minister interferes. In consequence of the fall of KhartomP and Gen. Gordon's death, the whole plan of the campaign in the Soudan has bee? changed. Gen. Brackenbury has bee? ordered to abandon his advance on Berber and return to Korti. Col. Buller, wh*> evacuated Gnbat and withdrew to AbuKlea W’ells, has also received orders to fall back on Korti. Gen. Wolseley will probably concentrate his entire army at Debbeh, and will there await help from England. It is thought that the moral offect of Gen. W olselej s retirement will be neu - tralized by the contemplated action from Suakin... .The British Parliament reassembled on the 19th of February. In the House of Lords, Earl Granville stated that the Government left Gen. Wok ley tg decide whether to attack Khartoum at once or delay until the autumn. In the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone disavowed responsi-h bility for the death of General Gordon, and] remarked that overtures could not be made! to El Mehdi. Sir Stafford Northcote gavel notice of a motion for an address to the! Queen praying for decided measures to-1 ward stable government in India... A battalion of the Coldstream Guards, 840 in number, have started from London] for Suakin. A detachment of Hus-1 sore has left Aidershot for Egypt....] Advices from Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia ] report a revolt among the Russian exiles, which was quelled with great difficulty, Nine soldiers and thirty exiles were killed. .... The wife of James Russell Lowell, Minister to England, died in London, Feb. 19. - The British Government has called out the militia and suspended transfer of officers from the regular army to the reserves. Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart died at Gadkul Wells. The English arsenals are preparing more war material for Egypt than was sent to the Crimea. Gen. BuUer, on his retreat, is menaced by the hordes of El Mehdi.... Advices from Khartoum report that after the battle at Abu-Klea Wells El Mahdi proclaimed a great victory for his troops, and announced that the British were destroyed. The garrison at Kha toum believed the rumors they heard and leveled a portion of the wall to admit the enemy... .The Third Battalion of the Grenadier Guards left England for Suakin last week. Before their departure from Windsor they w.n ad-

dressed by the Prince of ‘Wales, who said that he well remembered the day thirty-one years 4go when the same battalion departed for the Crimea. The Queen sent an autograph letter to the officers assuring them of her good wishes and prayers.... An almost universal protest has arisen against the Ministry in England. It is admitted even by the Fall Mall Gazette, which has always been the friend of the Government, that “Mr. Gladstone’s sun is setting far behind black and lurid clouds.” The war spirit is fully aroused, and the peace party finds little support.... .Three thousand colliers have struck in the coalmines of Mous, Belgium.