Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The treaty of peace between France and China has been signed... .The authorities at Madrid are at last compelled to admit that cholera of the time Asiatic type.,is spreading in an alarming manner through the city... .The rejection of the budget in the British Commons, was followed by the resignation of the Gladstone ministry. This action was determined upon at a prolonged Cabinet council. ’When the Premier arose in Parliament to announce the resignations, he received a hearty ovation from his ad- ’ mirers. The defeat of the Government was entirely unexpected, both by its supporters and opponents. The resignation of the Cabinet caused a feverish feeling on the Stock-Exchange and a decline in consols and Russian securities. Charles Alphonse Leon Renier, the distinguished archaeologist, is dead... .The town of Sikuch, in the Eastern Caucasus, has been wiped out by an earthquake. There is a feeling of quiet satisfaction in court circles over the downfall of the Liberal Ministry. Mr. Gladstone declares that his retirement from public life is permanent, and that he will take no part in the approaching electoral struggle, save to address his Midlothian constituency. It is said that the policy of the Marquis of Salisbury , toward Ireland will be to split the Liberal party comp etely by proposing a measure of coercion basqd on Earl Spencer’s report. Court officials now admit that Mr. Gladstone was never in harmony with the Queen on * any subject, and her . Majesty and the Premier disagreed bitterly in all their discussions about Eng and’s ’foreign affairs. It is said the Queen favors a.renewal of the Soudan campaign, the retention of Egypt, the settlement of the Anglo-Russian dispute on the basts of the Granville-Giers

agreement, a renewal ot the alliance with Germany, an entente with Turkey, and no special cultivation of an entente with France. . . .Russia offers to resume diplomatic relations with the Vatican if his holiness will induce the Catholic bishops of Poland to abandon the idea of re-establishing the nationality-of that country. .. .The British Government has ordered the payment of £IOO to each of the widows of the Canadian voyageurs up the Nile, and £SO to the mothers of the voyageurs.... The steamer Opeke Hall foundered in a cyclone in the (Gulf of Aden. There was but one survivor... .The bay colt Paradox won the Grand Prize at Paris.