Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Jn the contest for the League base hall championship, the Chicago nine still maintains the lead, with the New York, Providence, Philadelphia, and St. Louis clubs following’in the order named. The Boston and Detroit clubs are tied for the next place, and the Buffalos are at the foot of the class. Chicago has won 45 games, New York 42, Providence 34, Philadelphia 27, and Detroit and Boston 20 each. The great Munster Bank, of Cork and Dublin, has suspended payments. The liabilities amount to $8,750,000. The majority of its shareholders are ladies who are solely • dependent upon its dividends for their income. The managers of the suspended Munster Bank will endeavor to borrow 'sufficient money in England to liquidate the bank’s present indebtedness. A run was begun on the Hibdtnian Bank, which has fortytwo branches in Ireland, and which has been compelled to require a seven days’ notice of an intention to withdraw deposits. 1.... At a eonfere: ce of English sugarrefiners held in London it was resolved to petition the Marquis of Salisbury to'bring before the people an alleged injustice by the American Government in paying a bountythrough its firnff laws to American exporters of refinfed sugars... .The Salvation Army in England purposes to establish a system of pickets In front, of houses of ill - fame, the object being to make a note of all who enter such places.... At Paris a decree divqrcing the Marquis de Caux from Madame Patti has been pronounced.. M. de Lesseps is urging upon the French Minister of Public Works a scheme„for a canal, navigable by the largest iron-clads, from Havre to Marseilles. A cabinet council was held at London to consider the Buseo-Afghan boundary question, u£t&t which Lord Salisbury, Lord Iddesleigh, ninTSir Michn&l Hicks-Beach had a consultation at the foreign office with Baron de Staal, the Russian Ambassador. It was subsequently announced that the negotiations between England andißussia were progressing in 1 a satisfactory manner. The French foreign office is advised that (ho massing of Bussjan droops at Zulficar Pass is with a view to the seizure of Herat The French Minister to St. Petersburg, who was about leaving on a furlough, Las been'ordered to remain at bis post because of the gravitv of the situation. Thd Ameer has issued a proclamation announcing his investure with the decoration of the Star of India, and dr- \\ ' ■ XT

dering tbe illumination of Herat in honor of the event... .The new treaty between China and Great Britain, by the terms of which the interior of the Chinese Empire is opened up freely to the opium trade, has been signed by representatives of both powers The cost of the Tonquin campaign, according to the French Budget Committee, ? will be 470,000,000 francs, of which only 270,000,000 francs have been voted ... A large number of Americans have been blackballed who were applicants for admission into the Bachelors’ Club of London.... The Chinese restriction bill has passed the Dominion Senate without amendment.