Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Mr. Grad stone stated in the British House of Commons, on the 17th of April, that the Government had received from Sir Peter Lumsden a reply to their request for an independent report upon the Penjdeh incident. In this it is stated that Gen. Komarolf was aware, ‘at as early a date as the 28th of March, of the understanding agreed upon March 17 between Russia and England. Mr. Gladstone being asked' if the Government had protested against the occupation of Penjdeh by Gen. Komaroff and his establishment of a Russian administration there, answered that the Government had not yet made either tlje subject of official communication with Russia. The Government wns awaiting further information concerning these events. Earl Dnfferin, Viceroy of India, in, a dispatch to the home Government, said that in his opinion Penjdeh was no worth fighting for.

Cable dispatches from London, report that there is no abatement of preparations in anticipation of war. Armed merchantmen have been ordered stationed at the South African Cape, Bombay, Sydney, and other important points. Negotiations for the purchase of the greatest portion of the Chinan navy have been concluded by the English Government The vessels 'thus purchased will do servioe in the North Pacific Ocean. The gun works of Sir William Armstrong have been given a large number of new war orders. Among these is an order for seventy small field-pieces, and another for 400 Nordeafeldt guns. Rus-

sia ■ also continues her preparations. Dispatches from Vienna and Constantinople state that Austria and Germany have warned the Porte that the Berlin" treaty will be annulled if either English or Russian war-ships are allowed to pass through the Bosphorus in the* event of war between England and Russia. A Russian Prince at present in Paris has received a personal telegram from the Czar, in which the latter conveys the expression of a strong hope that peace will be preserved between Russia and England by means of mutual concessions. The British troops on the Nile are reported to be suffering from the intense heat prevailing in the Soudan.