Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Two dynamiters from New York have arrived in Paris with patterns of a new explosive apparatus which is provided with three springs. Failure in future dynamite enterprises is rendered almost impossible by this invention, for it is oply necessary that one Of the springs should go off to cause an explosion... .Five Americans connected with the University of Tokio are to be decorated by the Emperor with the order of the Rising Sun. Advices fn*m St Petersburg state that the following is the exact state of the Afghan frontier negotiations at the present time: The Ameer surrenders Penjdeh for Zulificar. The question is unsettled as to whether the Zulificar Pass shall form a part of the , boundary or remain wholly in Afghanistan. Russia insists that Meruchak belongs .to Penjdeh. England rejects, and makes the retention of Meruchak a sine qua non. This difference of opinion is now the main difficulty... .All the articles of the treaty of peace between France and China have been agreed to, and the signatures have been affixed. The war cloud between Russia and England has at last blown over, and the sun of peace is shining again. Russia has accepted England's counter proposals. The main features of the delimitation of the frontier have been settled by leaving Maruchak and

Tulfikur in the hands of the Afghans, which will bring the frontier a little north of the line claimed by Russia. The Boundary Commission can now go ahead, settle the details, and stick up the posts. All that remains for the commission to do is.a trifling matter of civil engineering... .Sixty cases of cholera have occurred in the province of Valencia, and several in the city of, that name in Spain. A commission has been appointed by the Government to investigate Dr. Ferran’s system of inoculation with cholera microbes... .The effort made in Leland to raise a fund for James Stephens, who was recently expelled from France, has thus far. resultedln subscriptions of £7OO. ’