Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Gen. Graham has moved his camp two miles nearer Tamai. Serviceable work is being done by the balloon corps in reconnoitering the enemy... .The British in the Soudan are employing balloons to make observations of the whereabouts and movements of El Mahdi’s forces. Balloons are found to be of very valuable assistance.. . .The British Cabinet has resolved to demand of Russia the speedy delimitation of the Afghan frontier. All officers of the Indian army now in Europe on furlough are ordered to rejoin their regiments. Earl Granville had an interview with the envoys of the Sultan in London in regard to the rumored alliance of Russia and Turkey against England. The liabilities of Scarananga & Co., the merchants who recently failed in London, will amount to £1,000,000. The firm’s embarrassment was caused by the decline in wheat last fa 11.... The calling out of the reserves and the militia will enable England to comply with Lord Dufferin’s demand for 25,000 troops. Lord Dufferin requested the Government to send either 25,000 soldiers or one Viceroy to take his place. The Ministry concluded that the noble Earl could not well be spared at present, and so advised her Majesty to call out the reserves and militia. A terrific hurricane on the east coast of Madagascar, Feb. 25, sunk an American bark and two French steamers. Seventeen persons perished. Forty men wore buried alive by an explosion in the mines of the Dombrau Qrran Mining Company at Trappan, in Austrian Silesia. All are be ieved to have perished. An explosion in the mines of Baron Rothschild, in. Moravia, killed fifty-six men.... James G. Cunningham, alias James Dalton and Harry Burton, both charged with treason-felony in connection with the late dynamite demonstration at London, were committed for trial. Oxford won the “ ’Varsity” race on the Thames, defeating Cambridge by three lengths... .In the sculling match at Sydney, N. S. W„ between Hanlan and Beach, the latter won by six lengths,.... the municipal authorities of Paris have voted SIOO,OOO for the relief of the wounded French soldiers in Tonquin... .Owing to the success of the bill increasing on cereals in the French Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate Committee which reported it favorably, speculators have secured the control of the French grain market, and the bakers have increased the price of bread 10 centimes per kilo. Bread riots are threatened in many towns in consequence of this. The past month has witnessed the collapse of five of the heaviest tea and sugar importers in Moscow. A crisis has now been precipitated by the failure of a London grain house with branches in Russian cities.

The Russian organ, Le Nord, published at Brussels, prints a letter from St. Petersburg, which is regarded as good authority, and says: “Present Russsian military movements are nothing but precautionary measures, dictated by the most elementary principles of national prudence.” The same paper states editorially that the people of Russia regard the whole quarrel with no trace of irritation. A London dispatch states that there is a lull there in the war scare. The call for the army reserves and militia aroused and alarmed the people, and after the subsidence of the first excitement they ano asking what number are to be put under arms. The Ministry, it is claimed, have alloweß reports to circulate without contradictibn that in fact no more .than 25,000 men are wanted. This is just about enough to fill the vacancies in the muster rolls caused by the recent draft for the Egyptian and Mediterranean stations. Gladstone replied to the most pressing requests as to the true import of the Queen’s summons by saying that the Government had decided to postpone *ll statements upon the subject until after Easter, hoping in the meantime to reach some arrangement with Russia. AftSr two weeks of active campaigning, during which several hundred lives have

been lost, Gen. Graham’s camp is just two miles nearer Berber than when be started from Suakin. The army is suffering from typhoid fever and dysentery. The Berber railway has not yet begun. The Celestials have scored another victory, they having carried the jntrenchments at Langson, securing the keys to tire position and forcing the invaders to retreat beyond Dong-Dang along! the Lougkoi. The losses are unknown. The Orientals have 50,000 men and seriously threaten the French lines of communication with the south. Gen. Briere de I’lsle has asked for 20,000 men.