Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Dublin is agitated over a scandal in high life, Mr. John Pollock, a magistrate, who had been enraged by stories connecting the name of his wife w.th those of t'wo gentlemen, assaulted each of them in turn. The first of these, a Capt Barry, Mr. Pollock, beat severely, and the second, a Mr. Albert Blakeney, Depnly-Lieutc-nant for the County Galway, he gave a horsewhipping in front of his residence.... An extensive manufactory of surgical instruments and druggists’ sundries in London burned, causing a Toss of $250,j)00, and depriving 400 men of employment"... The British ship Cilurnum, from Newcastle for San Francisco, burned at cea. The crew are at Pernambuco... .Admiral Courbet’s remains were interred in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris, a large assemblage attending the ceremonies Knssia is said to bo making overtures for an alliance with Turkey. ThE Marquis of Haejingtou delivered an address at Rosendaje, England, m which he urged the extension of local self-gov-ernment so that Parliament might ne enabled to give its attention solely to imperial legislation. “No party,”‘he said, “would ever concede Mr. Parnell’s demands, the ultimate result of which would be to force the British members, irrespective of politics, to combine to keep the empire intact"... .Report has it that word has been sept to the Sulfctn of Egypt that England is willing to evacuate that country if Turkey will agiee to maintain order therein, and that, wh'le’ England recognizes the rights of other powers, 6he will not permit any but Turkey to undertake military occupation of the© country.... Eight 'persons were killed and twelve wounded in'» collision at Almeria in Andalusia, Spain, between the military aud a mob. The riot grew out of the, wholesale exodus of wealthy citizens on account of the cholera, and the consequent loss of employment of the Laboring classes... .According to a statement attributed to a member of Lord Sa isbury's ministry. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, the special Britisi envoy to the Porte, is authorized to * dec'are to the Sultan that England Prill evacuate Egypt if Turkey wi.i engage to maintain order therein.... A rumor is current in several European capitals to The effect that Prince Bismark’s

recent seizure of the Caroline islands was only the first step in a programme having for its ultimate object the annexation of Cuba by Germany, with the concurrence of the Washington Government... .Many Russian capitalists, fearing the result of the war preparations and unsettled ; business iu their own country, are in America.... Peace between England and Russia is now looked upon as a fixed fact. Closing negolions between the two powers are progressing rapidly.. Mr. Gladstone has left Norway so 1 ’ the Shetland Islands Zinc producers in France. Germany, Belgium, and Spain have formed a combination.