FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3142, 14 March 1879, Page 2

FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

Another expedition has been sent against the fugutive Cheyennes, but has been unable to dislodge them from their strongly entrenched positions.- The In* dians are, it is stated, becoming excited throughout the frontier, and fears are entertained of a general war. The Berlin Post states that. Prince

Bismarck has declared privately that it it wholly indiflerent.,to rhim whether his Parliamentary Discipline Bill be adopted, in iti entirety, or partly, or not at all. He believes he has rendered a service to the Reichstag, and to nobody elie, by sag- s gesting the matter. A telegram from Bucharest says itis not considered probable that, even under the , most favorable circumstances, the question of abolishing the disabilities of the Jews can be settled before May, as the necessary modifications of the Roumanian Con* . stitution will require some time. : ■,

The Eoman Catholic journal. Germania learns that the .forcible conversion of Polish Catholics of the United Greek Church to the Orthodox Bussian creed is I still being carried on in the same unre- - lenting and cruel manner whioh was only recently exposed in an English Blue Book* The Germania expresses great indignation ' at the conduct of'the Eussian authorities.' „ The Czar expresses a hope that the relations; between England and Bussia.. will soon be replaced on their former cor* dial footing, ,'■> ; ;;;, The German and Italian Governments have addressed complaints to London in /:. reference to the conflict whioh, has arisen on the subject of the capitulations between the High Commissioner of Cyprus . and M. Magniy the German and Italian Consul at Larnaca. The Eifortha states " tha Signor Depretis has had a long interview on the Bubject with Sir Augustus Paget. The difficulty, the Biforma adds, ! has almost been arranged. : A St.; Petersburg correspondent states that a Chinese diplomatist,'charged with a special mission from his Government to Europe, has arrived there, and proposes ■ to stay two days, with a view to adjusting, if possible, the differences which have arisen between his own Government and that of the Czar. : f

The monthly statement of the Egyptian revenues for the first ten months of the current year has just been issued. The receipts in October amounted to £550,000. against £620,000 in the corresponding month of last year., The, total receipts from January to October inclusive amounted t0...£5,500,000, ,as compared with £6,750,000 in the same period of 1877.

; We understand that a tribunal, composed of Professors Bauer, Famintsin, and Tagankeff, belonging to the University of St. Petersburg, has resolved upon the expulsion of a large number of students' ; for the insubordination they have displayed since.the arrest of the 200 medical students. The decision of the tribunal has received the assent of the Czar.