Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1879 — FORRIGN INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

FORRIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Accordixo to Constantinople dispatches of the 20th, the steamer Rinaldo, which ran down the Byzantine, succeeded in saving ninety of the latter’s passengers. Twelve Turkish battalions have been scut to Podgoritza to prevent tbe Albanians resisting the annexation of that Province to Montenegro. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 2)tb, numerous riotous demonstrations bad been made in that city and Moscow by students attached to tbe various educational institutions. The Chiefs of Police ordered them to disperse, and, the disorder continuing, squadrons cf soldiers were brought up, and from 140 to 200 of them were arrested and lodged in the Military Prison. The German Tobacco Inquiry Commission has rejected the Government proposition to make the traffic lu tobacco a State monopoly. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 23d, the Government apprehended a Nihilist outbreak and contemplated the closing of all the universities in the Empire as a precautionary measure. The Princess Tbyra, daughter of the King of Denmark, was married to the Duke of Cumberland, hereditary King of Hanover, on the evening of tbe 21st. London telegrams of 22d say the reducUod proposed of 12}£ per cent, in wages at tbe colleries in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire would 3ffect 100,000 men. A plan to strike tr. >/i<is*e was l>eing considered. On tbe 22d, an express train on the Kostow A Viadikookas Railway, in Russia, ran off an embankment. Twenty person were killed outright and thirty-eight more or less seriously injured. Among the killefl were Gen. Hintz and several officers of the Army of the Caucasus.

The funeral obsequies of the late Bayard' Taylor, United States Minister at Berlin, took place in that city, on the 22d. All Ambassadors, including the Chinese and Japanese, were present, as were also representatives of the Emperor and Crown Prince. Dispatches from London, on the 23d, say the weather was exceptionally severe throughout England and Scotland. AH the railroads in the north of Scotland were blocked with snow, and travel Was entirely suspended. On the Continent, also, the fall of anow was exceptionally heavy and the weather bitter cold. A dispatch was received hr Loudon, on the 23d, from Gen. Browne,: dated December 20, announcing the occupation of Jelalabad. He states that the inhabitants were friendly.

A Qcettah (India) dispatch of the 32dsays the Governor of Candahar had advised the Ameer that he was unable to oppose the march of the British one that city. ' One Mandi7"iriiafsralTzeir~cltlzeirof the United States, has been prohibited from lecturing in Berlin ou the improved prospects of'the Western States of America, on the ground that the tendency of the lecture would be to induce not only Socialists but well-to-do Germans to emigrate. Berlin dispatches of the 24th say the law against Socialism was being urged with re* newed vigor. In Leipsic alone seventeen publications had recently been repressed. The Empress of Germany has sent an auto graph letter of condolence to the widow of Die late Bayard Taylor. Ax Austrc-Italian treaty of commerce has been signed. A Copenhagen (Denmark) hotel-keeper has been arrested for sending letters to the King threatening his assassination. The result of the inquiry into the circumstances attending the loss of the steamer Pomerania is a derision that the Captain and officers did all that was possible to be done to avoid the collision and loss of life. Tns Great Council of Geneva has accepted of the separation of Church and State, and appointed a committee to embody that principle in a law. According to a Kuram (India)' telegram, received lu London on the 26th, an Afghan soldier in the British service had been hanged for firing his gun to warn bis countrymen of the advance on Peiwar Pass. Eighteen others had been sentenced to terms of penal servitude ranging from seven to fourteen years, for desertion.

T«r steamer State of Louisiana, from tilaszow for New York, ran on a rock in Larue Lough, on the Scottish Coast, on-the 31th. It was thought she could not be got off. No lives were lost. SIXEniAJi Pasha, the Turkish General who was sentenced to confinement in a Turkish stronghold for alleged misconduct dtiring the war with Russia, has been pardonctl by Ihe Bnltan. COKUBKCWIOXAL PBOCKKDMCB. In the Senate, on the 20th, the bill introduced by Mr. Beck, to' repeat Sec. 820 of the Revised Statutes, which disqualifies all persons compromised with the Rebellion from serving on Grand or .Petit Juries in United States Courts, was caliec up, and a motion was made and carried to go into Executive session—2s to to 25—ito Vice-President giving his vote in the affirmative. After the Executive session, the hUi was poised.... Adjourned to Jan. 7. -. In the House, bills were paased—removing the political disabilities of certain persons: Benate toil authorising the payment of the State of Tennessee for keeping United States military Pnsoner* ...A communication was received arid referred from Hec,'y Sherman, in answer to a resolution of inquiry, stating that there were ho faalanom on loan accounts standing to the credit of the United States Treasury in any National to*San 1876 to J*«, MS ? Adjourned y “Father,” said an inquisitive bov, “ what is meant by close relations?” “ Close relations, my son," replied the ■lather, * --are relations that never give you a oent.” The boy said the old man, then, was the “ closest” relation he’d got. ■ • ■—■-- ■■■ It must have been after ft Thanks* giving dinner that Macbeth exclaimed, “Hens, horrible ib*4ow, yaps!”—Boston Com. Bulletin. f \