Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

In the House of Commons Mr. Gladstone said that Russia had asked Gen. Komaroff to explain his conduct in attacking the Afghans, but that no explanation had been received as yet. The Russians doHiot occupy Peujdeh, but haye retired to the positions they occupied before the battle with the Afghans. London dispatches state that war is regarded as imminent. Sixty thousand men from the army reserves and the whole of the militia will be called out. The naval reserves will be relied upon for home defense. Various plans are being considered for striking Russia at vulnerable points outside of the present field of hostilities. The theory is that if England and Russia are to Russia should not be permitted to choose the battlefield. The Tories predict that Mr. Gladstone will again back dowD, as he did some weeks ago. The Russian newspapers charge Lord Dufferin and Sir Peter Lumsden with provoking the war by advising the Afghans to march into Russian territory. It is reported that the British Government has ordered on army of 30,000 men to be raise?! in Egypt. Definite advices from the seat of war state that Gen. Komaroff was compelled to occupy Pendjeh to stop the pillaging of the country by Afghans and Turcomans. An official message has been sent the General directing him' to thank the troops in the name of tho Czar.... While foreign dispatches show that England and Russia are conducting negotiations for a settlement of the Afghan troubles they also indicate there is still probability of war/ Earl Granville, the British Foreign Minister, advised Barou de Stnnl, the Russian Ambassador to London, that the British Government had decided that whatever the nature of the Bussiou explanation of Gen. Komaroff’s action might be, Great Britain would not allow any further discussion concerning the delimitation of the Afghan frontier to go on until the Russian troops have been withdrawn from their present outposts in the disputed territory back to the positions which they occupied at the time' England appointed her part of the commission to adjust the Afghan frontier. Both sides continue to make active preparations in anticipation of open hostilities. All the Rossian torpedo boatS\haveJ>een ordered to

the Black and Baltic Seas to guard against attacks on ports on these waters. All the Adrqirata of the British Navy have been notified to hold themselves in readiness for service. The Government has secured a number of the regular Atlantic steamships for use as trans- ■ ports. The feeling of the Russian people was manifested at an ovation given the Czar while attending the theater.,. .London reports the death of Geoi&e Swan Nottage, Lord Mayor, and the Earl of Selkirk, a representative peer for Scotland..... A box containing a dynamite machine r addressed to Prince Bismarck was discovered by the authorities at Frankfort-on-the Main. ,