Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Teheran states that 1,000 persons are at the Transcaspian Bail way. Warlike preparations ai e still being continued by Bussia. Humors are in circulation l in the bazaars of Teheran that war will probably occur after the Transcaspian Eailway is completed to Merve, in Turkomania. The Eppsians are bridging the Eiver Murghab, on the confines' of Afghanistan. Eight hundred Eussian soldiers are at Old Sarakhs. The Persians are fortifying Persian Sarahks and building barracks there for troops... .The Queen has conferred the order of Victoria and Albert upon the Countess Spacer. Et. Hon. Edward Gibson takes the title of Lord Ashbourne. Two membebs of the Salisbury government have made significant speeches in England. Lord Arthur William Hill declared that coercion laws for Irela id were needless; that the existing land act was a failure, and that he would support the land franchise bill proposed by the Gladstone ministry. Lord John Manners, Postmaster General, promised that the new Cabinet would try to restore order in Egypt and to terminate the tension in the Afghan frontier which threatens India; also to increase the efficacy” of local administration.... Blue Grass, formerly owned by J. E. Keene, won the race for the Northumberland plate, worth 1,000 sovereigns, at Newcastle, England. The success of the Tories in recent Parliamentary elections, and their activity ip. preparations fpr coming elections, have alarmed the Liberals, whb had thought to win an easy victory oyer their opponents. The Liberals, thoroughly aroused to the necessities of their situation, propose, un-

det the advice of Gladstone and Chamberlain, to appoint a National Campaign Committee to direct the entire canvass, upon a matured and uniform plan, instead of the disjointed and anarehial method heretofore in vogue. Jt is reported that Gladstone, notwithstanding tumors and ztalk to the contrary, evinces a willingness to return to office... .Toyama. Japan, was visited by a conflagration which destroyed 5,917 houses. .'Japan will resume specie . payments Jan. 1, 1866. . , The cholera continues to rage with great violence in S.pain, and since the outbreak of the epidemic there have been ten thousand deaths.