Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Shanghai says the Chinese emperor has written to the czar and President Faure asking for financial assistance to meet the war expenses, and promising to grant special commercial advantages to Russia and France in return therefor. Oscar Wilde; was released on bail in London, after furnishing a personal bond for $12,500 and two sureties in $6,250 each. His sureties were Lord Douglas, of Hawick, eldest surviving son of the Marquis of Queeusberry, and Rev. Stewart Headlam. A dispatch from St. Petersburg states that up to Sunday it was believed that Japan would refuse to give up Port Arthur. Orders were given to mobilize 110,000 troops in the Irkutsk and Tomsk districts and a credit of 20,000,001) roubles was opened. It was in view of this attitude of Russia that Japan immediately yielded to the demands made by Russia, France and Germany. The end of the Cuban war is at hand. The rumor is confirmed in all well-inform-ed circles. The chiefs the insurgents have abandoned their cause in despair. JJapt. Gen. Martinez Campos has ordered that the work on the port of Santiago be begun at once. Railways and telegraph hues are to lie built, rebuilt and improved, through Manzanillo, Bay a mo,- Puerto Principe, Santa Cruz, San Luis and Soriano. King Humbert nnd Queen Maigaret of Italy had a narrow escape from death Tuesday. They were on their way by rnil in a special train from Florence to Rome, attended by their suites. Suddenly, near Incisa Lake, there was a violent shock, one of the carriages was derailed and everybody on board the train received more or less serious concussions. An obstruction of some description, it appears, either fell across the track or was placed there by evil-minded persons. Several members of the royal suite sustained slight injuries, but the King and Queen escaped with nothing more serious than a bad shaking up. The Spanish warship Infanta Isabella was release J fiom quarantine at Fort

Tampa, Fla., where she had been held five days by the State authorities. The vessel was held the full five days required by the Florida law. In addition to this she was fumigated from top to bottqm. The Florida authorities have gained the distinction of being the first to enforce on a warshipthe quarantine regutattons Intended: for other vessels. By international courtesy war vessels' have always been free from quarantine regulations. This Government has, indeed, on several occasions protested firmly and successfully against the imposition of quarantine regulations against its war vessels in foreign ports. This Tampa affair has been kept from the dignity of diplomatic interference simply because the Spanish minister did not see fit to protest. The republic of Brazil is having an experiehce l h finance mu?fiT!ke that of the United States. Senor Mendonca, the Brazilian minister in Washington, has received copies of the recent decree for an internal loan of 100,000,000 contoes, or $50,000,000. Part of this was taken by the people, in the form of a popular loan, much as Senator Sherman urged as the ■most desirable manner of floating bonds. Of this $10,000,000 was at once used in redeeming paper money, and $15,000,000 more will be-used for the same purpose. The important feature of this step is that Brazil, has begun to strengthen her gold reserve and reduce her paper money, with ■ a view to bringing her two forms of currency—gold and paper—to an equality. ' It will not be bimetallism, as Brazil has little! silver except for subsidiary coin, but it will inaugurate the unique system of gold and paper circulating side by side on a n Oquali ty. A dispatch from Managua, Nicaragua, says: There is no longer any doubt that Great Britain will receive her smart money on time. The £15,000 _to be paid by Nicaragua to Great Britain has been raised by popular donations. Three German mercantile firms have given about £2,000, and the whole amount will be ready to be paid in London in a few days. The raising of the money, however, has only increased popular feeling in Nicaragua against Great Britain, and the feeling is notv very bitter indeed, more so,-if possible, than when the British landed at Corinto. The general Opinion seems to be that the Central American republics will form a combination, possibly secret, against Great Britain, and that everything possible will be done to exclude British goods from Central America. This feeling will probably result in commercial gain to the United States, There is no doubt, however, that the action of the three German firms in subscribing so liberally do the indemnity fund will prove a good stroke of business to them.