Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The British Mediterranean fleet has orders to rendezvous at Suda Bay, Crete. The inhabitants of the island are greatly excited in 'regard to the whereabouts of the Greek squadron. The Turks have a garrison of 10,OttO men, and two iron-clads lie in Cretan waters... .The Marquis of Salisbury sent a special messenger to Osborne House, on the 26th ult.', to inform Queen Victoria of the resignation of the Cabinet. Mr. Gladstone held a conference with Lord Granville in relation to the resumption of office by the Liberals. Mrs. Gladstone took a letter from her husband to Lord Hurtington. The Parnelliles cherish the hope that Mr, Gladstone will negotiate for the settlement of the Irish question. The Dublin Freeman's Journal admits that agrarian outrages still occur in the remote districts of the country, but it declares thiit the National League cannot be held responsible for them. It adds that the I league has resolved to do all in its power to repress disorder and remove every semblance of a pretext for the Government Jto revive the coercion laws. The Queen accepted the resignation of the Salisbury Cabinet on the 29th uIL, and at the same time summoned Gladstone for consultation... Kunitzkv, Bardovsk, a Justice- of the Peace, Petynszynsky, and Oszowsky, recently condemned to death for belonging to a Polish social revolutionary association styled the Proletariat, have' just been executed at Warsaw. Lury, a captain of the engineers, and Schnuusc, a private gentleman, also condemned to death, had their sentences Commuted to twenty years’ servitude in Siberia.

At a ball in Berlin the octbgenarian Emperor danced with the Crown Princess.... It is rumored that King George of Greece has grown so weary of political strife that Se is likely to abdicate J... According to ie terms of the treaty of peace agreed upon between Fiance and Madagascar the former country agrees to accept $2,000,000 for a release, which is to cover all foreign claims against Madagascar, both those antedating the recent war and those growing oht of it. France is to occupy Tamatave until the money is paid. The treaty also empowers France to station a ’French Resident in the country.