The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-05-08
Foreign.

TIE Russians have made another advance,
occupying Meruchak, twenty miles south of
Penjdeh.
THE Belgium chamber of deputies, by a
unanimous vote, adopted the bill authorizing
King Leopold to accept the title of sovereign
Of the Congo free state.
THE Prince and Princess of Wales have
returned to London from their visit to Ire
land.
A LEADING Paris paper says the Bosphore
Egyptien affair has been settled through the
intermediary Offices of England upon the fol-
lowing bases: Egypt apologies to NJ. Tai
lander, the French charge d'affaires the
office of the Bosphore Egyptien will be re-
opened and the journal allowed to reappear
forthwith; and France abandons her demand
for the recall of the officials who forcibly en-
tered the newspaper Office, in view of Egypt
apology
RUSSIAN sailors have begun to receive the
pay allowed in time of war.
IT is reported that at council in st.
Petersburg, presided over by the car, con-
cilatory measures toward England, proposed
by the Russian foreign minister, were re-
jected.
a PANAMA correspondent says that ''of
what was once the furnishing city of Aspin-
wall but few houses remain standing Every
where are the blackcned walls of ruins and
cellars filled with charred debris. Hundreds
of persons persh,1 in the fire, and the bodies
of men, women and children are still found
among the ruins.
THE Arctic steamer Alert was returned to
Great Britain by the American government
at Halifax, y. s., in presence of many noted
perSonages. The Alert was British vessel
presented to the American government for
use in the search for the Greedy party.
ADvICEs from Suakim state that the Arabs
have again become troublesome to the
IN.
and making constant attempts to destroy the
railroad which is i'll course of construction to
Berber.
OFFICIAL dispatches from India confirmed
the report OF the recent defeat Of the Rus
SLAMS in a second engagement with the AT
ghans on the frontier.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch states that
the car sent an ultimatum to Great Britain
demanding that the latter accept Russia
pro- losed boundary line between Turkestan
and Afghanistan. Ii Great Britain refused
to accept this boundary Russia would pro-
coed to occupy Herat,
SEVEN more of the English transatlantic
steamships plying between New York and
Great Britain have been chartered by the
British government for war purposes.
GENERAL KoMAROFF, Russian commander
at the battle near Penjdeh, has replied to Sir
Peter Lumsden, the British commissioner on
the Afghan boundary question, denying the
NpIItClIeSS vi ILc ACCOUNT Oh ulIalIS
which led up to the Russian attack on the
Afghans.
EUROPEAN advices of the LIST stated that
there was a slight relaxation in the tension Of
the relations of Russia and England. Russia
appeared to be disposed to entertain Eng
lands proposals to submit to the arbitration
of one of the crowned heads of Europe the
question whether the convention of March
II was broken by Russia. 1t was believed
that the king of Denmark would be selected
as arbitrator in the event of mediation being
accepted.
GENERAL Del'Isle. the French commander
telegraphs from Tonquin that the Chinese
are Loyalty fulfilling the conditions of peace
with France.