Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s mission to Constantinople has .proved a failure, and it is annouifeed that the Anglo-Turk-ish joint occupation of Egypt has been abandoned. The Saltan’s refusal to accept the terms offered by' Great Britain is attributed to Russian influence.'.. .The police at St. Petersburg have been ordered to renew the stringent measures in force during the period when Nihilism was most rampant... .Frederick Kiel, the eminent German composer, is dead. The issuance of orders by the English Government disbanding the militia and restoring to their owners ships chartered to serve as cruisers is taken as evidence of the fact that the Afghan question is at last settled and all present danger of war averted ~ . John Cpulbertt, of London, the first person to be convicted under the criminal law amendment act, was sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment for the abduction of a little girl.... The steamers Drenda aud Dolphin collided off the southeast coast of England, and one dispatch reports seventeen of the passengers aud crew of tbe Dolphin as missing. .. .The cholera is increasing at Palermo, Sicily, and large numbers of the inhabitants are fleeing the city. Fourteen French soldiers died of the disease while en route from Tonquin to Marseilles.... There are already 1,300 candidates in the field in France for election to thjj Chnmber of Deputies. Of these Candidates 500 have already served in the Chamber... .Prince Bismarck is taking steps to circumvent French intrigues in Morocco. Eastern Roumelia, one of the provinces given local government by the Berlin treaty of 1878, after the Russo-Turkish war, but still nominally subject to Turkey, lias rebelled and nnuexed itself to Bulgaria. Prince Alexander, sovereign of Bulgaria, has proceeded to the capital of Roumelia, and appointed the President of the provisional Government Commissioner, and ordered a corps of his army to' advance to the frontier. It is reported that he has been of the support of Russia, Germany; and Austria... .The Tory Primrose League is a rapidly growing organization in England, modeled somewhat after American campaign clubs, which is already exerting a great influence on the present canvass.. . Austria is suspected of an intention to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is believed at St Petersburg ttjat the signatory powers will settle the Roumolian tioubleo amipably.... .It is reported that Spain has fully reoceupied Yap, and that a station on the island will be at once properly forti-'’ tied and provisioned... .United States Minister Cox and Consul General Heap

h%ve succeeded in obtaining a revocation of' Turkey’s order expelling American Jews from Jerusalem.... Mr. Parnell has invited all the priests of Ireland, whether members of the Land League or not, to attend the nominating conventions of the Nationalist party.... England's Indian forces have been advanced to a point which will afford a prompt occupation of Candahar whenever desired. ... .Gen. Von Hendrick has been appointed to, succeed Gen. Manteuffel, deceased, hi command of the German forces in Al-sace-Lorraine. ... .Earl Granville is forced by his increasing deafness to retire permanently from public life. r