Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Dr. John Rao, the Arctic explorer, died at. London, Monday. 6 It is said that England has annexed Solomon Island., the largest group in the Pacific.! The latest advices at Ottawa from Sir John Thompson brings the information that the British are not now so hopeful of winning the Bering Sea case. A division was taken in the Honse of Commons which resulted In the defeat of Chamberlain's financial clause, the vote standing 236 against it and 16(5 in Its favor. The steamer Pearl was run Into by an unknown steam* r off North Rogk, County Down, Ireland. Tho Pearl sank carrying down with her sevihi persons. The other live people on board of her wore saved. It is believed that M. Dcvclle hopes that his pacific blockage will Induce Siam to surrender at discretion. Should Siam sjtlH resist and the blockade be made effective British interests would suffer severely. The London merchants interested In the Siamese trade have forwarded a joint letter to Lord Rose berry, pointing to tho injury which will bo inflicted by the blockade upon Singapore and Hong Kong. Theso colonies would be dependent on Saigon for supplies of rice, and thus Franco will have an interest in benefitting Cochin China by a prolonged blockade, which probably would produce a famine, perhaps a nativo revolt at Singapore. Siam’s reply to the French altimatum was handed to the French minister resident at Bangkok. Saturday afternoon. Tho reply was considered unsatisfactory by the French government, and it has notified tho powers that it idtends us establish a blockade of tho Blagiesecoast. London papers are disposed to aide with Siam, and the situation Is regarded as very un-

certain and may yet result in a general European war in which all the powers may be involved in an endeavor to protect the interests of their subjects in the various parts of the Orient.