Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

For the first time since the Crimean war the naval and military pensioners at Portsmouth, England, have been ordered to be in readiness for medical inspection... .It is said that Gen. Gordon’s diary is written on Egyptian telegraph blanks sewn together with twine, every page being illuminated with pictures fantastic and serious. Hundreds of placards distributed by emissaries of the Mahdi at Jeddah, Dokah, Lith, and other seaport towns in the Arabian Province of Hedjaz have been seized by the Turkish authorities. The placards order the “faithful” to organize and expel the Turks from Arabia, promising that the Prophet will soon arrive at Jeddah and lead his hosts to Mecca. Gladstone announces an agreement between Russia and England by which neither the Afghans nor the troops of the Czar will make further advances on the frontier James Stephens, Eugene Davis, and Mortimer Leroy, charged with being Fenian agitators, were expelled from French territory and ordered not to return. Three Anarohists were also escorted across the frontier. Warrants have been issued for the expulsion of other Fenian leaders. Memorial services in honor of Gen. Gordon were held in London at SC Paul’s Cathedral. Westminster Abbey, and many other cathedrals and churches. The Bishop of Chichester preached a sermon, in which he declared that the death of Gordon had brought disgrace upon England... .The cable chronicles the demise of Joseph J. Jenkins, the water-color painter of London; of Sir Curtis M. Lampson, a native of Vermont, onq of the trustees of the Peabody fund, and of Louis Gatineau, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies. .... Following is a summary of the situation in the Soudan, as telegraphed by cable from London: Gen, Graham's arrival at Suakin was hailed with joyful acclamation by the tropps, who have had anything bnt an ead; time lately, owing to constant at ticks by the‘Arabs. Gen. Graham ha ordered radical changes in the ln.es of defense or. the land side of ithe town. A gen eral advance towagl the .interior is to be made immediate h\ The first objective- 1 point will be Sinkat, where an intrenched camp is to be established for the summer. In the autumn Ae army will proceed to Berber. Incidentally to the march upon

Sinkat Osman Digma trill have to be whipped. Osman, however, has issned a proclamation promising to capture Suakin and to destroy the British. It was decided at the meeting of the Gordon Memorial Committee in London that the memorial should be a great hospital and sanitarium, to be erected at Port 6aid, open to the people of all nations. The Prince of Wales presided at the meeting of the committee, and among the members present Lord Granville and the Dukes of Cambridge and Edinburg. The Khedive has already granted a site for the proposed hospital.