Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1878 — FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Pan-Anglican Conference adjourned on the 27th. The Marquis of Lome, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, has been appointed Governor-Gen-eral of Canada, to succeed Lord Dufferin. The Austrian troops crossed the Bosnian frontier on the 29th, meeting with no opposition either from the Turkish troops or the Bosnian insurgents. Elections for members of the German Parliament were held bn the 30th ult. Re turns received up to the morning of the 31st ult- indicated the defeat of the Government. According to late Vienna dispatches, a Turkish agitator had raised the standard of revolt against the Ottoman authorities at Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia. A Belgrade dispatch says a proposition to make Servia a Kingdom would be made in September. A Belgrade telegram of the 31st ultstates that Servia had established an army of observation on the Bosnian frontier. The Russian member has withdrawn from the Commission, to investigate concerning the Rhodope insurrection. Some of the insurgent witnesses swore that'there was an understanding between them and the Russians, whereupon' the Russian member insisted that Inquiry in that direction be abandoned. This being refused, he withdrew, leaving only his dragoman to represent his Government The Austrian Government has issued an order prohibiting the exportation of’ horses. Tn* Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed a day of genera] thanksgiving throughout Great Britain for the maintenance of peace in Europe. , A Ministerial crisis has occurred in the Sultan’s Cabinet brought about by the differences of opinion as to the Austrian occupation of Bosnia. y Cardinal Fkaxchi. the pontifical Secretary of State, died on the morning of the Ist

Ox the evening Of the 2d, the resolutions of eensure upon the Government, introduced to the British House of Commons by Lord Hartington, were rejected by a vote of 196 to 838—a Government majority of 143. The House then passed a vote of confidence.