Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1878 — FORRIGN INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

FORRIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Russia has claimed from the International Commissi ou that Turkey shall pay her 23,000,000 francs far the expenses of the Bulgarian occupation. . , Ax American was arrested, on the 7th. in Constantinople for conspiring against the Sultan. The American Minister made an energetic demand f or his release. Ox the Bth, a reply from the Ameer to the British ultimatum was received. The letter te aaM to bo aa mrfrieudly as his former one. The messenger who brought it said that it wee delayed be sense he readied All Musjld during Hte flghring, and returned to Cabul. ■flie Ameer was incensed at his return, and ordered him to proceed at once. Mahmoc f» Daw ad Pasha has been banished to Barbary, having been appointed Governor at Tripoli. Russia has Imposed a duty of forty kopecks gold per Cpu B. Hammkh has been elected President, and Dr. E. Welti, Vice-President, of the Swiss Confederation for 1879. AWVkses have been received from Mogador that a terrible famine prevails there. The deaths number fwenty-flve Bally. The anniversary es the fall of Plevna was celebrated throughout Ronmania, on the 10th. Commemorative services were held in all the churches. '* Ok the Mth, a vote was taken in the British House of Commons, on the resolution censuring the Government for its conduct of the Afghan War. The resolution was defeated by a vote of ayes, 66; noes, 301. A resolution that the expenses of the war he defrayed from the Indian revenues was adopted without division. Wiixiam Johnstone, formerly Clerk in the Saline County Bank, of Marshall, Mo., arrested in Scotland, some time ago, on the charge of forgery, was examined,"on thb 10th, and held for extradition. Acoordixg to Bt. Petersburg dispatches of the 11th, a large number of Rneaian officers belonging to the Army of the Caucasus had been sent to Teheran to reorganise the Persian Army. A Bkklix dispatch of the 11th 6ays Germany had proposed to Great Britain that she assume a protectorate over Constantinople. Ik the Italian Chamber of Deputies, on the 11th, the order of the day, expressing confidence in the ability of the Ministry to maintain order with liberty, was rejected by a vote of 257 to 185. The King bad been asked to dissolve Parliament.

The Turkish Government has surrendered Roroer, the citizen of the United States, who was charged with conspiring against the Sultan, to U. S. Consul Heap. Tat rebellion in Macedonia has been subdued by Turkish troops, and 30,000 insurgents hare Sect to Bulgaria. THE French Chamber of Deputies adjourned nine die, on the 12th. Edward O’Kelly, the last Fenian prisoner, has been ordered to be set at liberty on or bofore Christmas. According to a Bombay dispatch of the 12th, an Afghan official had arrived at Gen. Browne's camp, from Jelalabad, and invited the British to advance to Cabal and establish a new government. He stated that a general rising against the Ameer had occurred. Dispatches from Dakka, received on the 12th, say that the Ameer had blown from the cannon’s mouth the late Commandant of Fort All Musjid, following the British precedent set some years ago in dealing with the Indian mutiny. The Russian Ambassador notified the British Government, on the 13th, that Russia would occupy Mery and the district adjoining the Afghan frontier. An offer of Russian mediation in the war with Afghanistan was slab made, to which Lord Salisbury replied that he would treat with noboby but the Ameer, who, if be submitted unconditionally, would receive, honorable terms. The announcement was also made that the British Government did not intend to in Russian influence at Cabul in any form. i, i_i _ .f,, , ~ , . the 13th, the officials and notables of Jelalabad had reached Dakka to tender their submission and services to the British authorities. A P*SHAwra dispatch of the 13th says the troops at the front were suffering greatly from pneumonia.. GtK regiment had lost fifteen men in four days, and another had eighty sick. ' ■ Pnnrcßss Alice, Duchess of Hesse-Darm-stadt, second daughter of Queen Victoria, died, on ike evening of the 18th. Vy W**s dispatches s#y the Chiefs of the Albanian League bad fjbtnamlefi. that all Albanian Districts bp incorporated as autr.no-, mov* Provinces. They declare that they shall act op the defensive, and in the future ignore the authority of tfce f*or»C-