Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The German Parliament has passed a bill providing for an assistant minister for Prince Bismarck. Eabl GraiAtlle stated in the House of Lords, on the 3d insfc, that Russian troops had been advancing in the disputed territory of Afghanistan, and refused to withdraw when requested by the English. Sir Peter Lumsden had advised the Afghans to dispute every inch of ground, in which the British Government would uphold them. Granville declined to answer a question by Salisbury whether peace between England and Russia depended on a squabble between Russian and Afghan outposts. The Latest suicide at Monaco was that of a young Englishman, recently married, who lost $250,000 at the gambling-table.... .The German Parliament rejected a motion in favor of a bimetallic standard for moDey. The defendant in a ease in the polioe court at Berne, Switzerland, emptied a revolver at the Judges badly wounding the clerk and the usher. It has transpired that a year ago a distinguished officer of the British army in India was sent for to advise with the Government regarding the practicability of a Russian invasion of Afghanistan. This officer said that snch on invasion was quite possible by the very route which the Russians have since taken. He alsb informed the Government that Russia could within sev-enty-seven days pnt 23,1KK) troops into Herat, and' 1 follow np this force with an equal number forty days later. Thirteen thousand-men could be thrown at once into Kabool, with an equal dumber of reserves close at hand... .Emperor William of Germany is said to have written • .?*? ... 1 ‘ . 1

to the Czar impressing upon him the necessity of reaching an agreement with England in order to preserve the peace of Europe. ...A disastrous explosion occurred in a colliery at Karwin, in Austrian Silesia. At the time of the accident there were 147 men in the mine. One hundred and twenty-three deadbodies had been taken out at last accounts].. .Justin McCarthy has severed fhys connection with United Ireland because of the recent attacks made by that paper upon the Prince of Wales it is reported on the authority of the St. Stephen’s Review that Premier Gladstone recently bought 100 hats in one day, and that his mind is giving way. a