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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. Gl.ifgow will tender General Grant the freedom of that city. The sultan talks of abdicating in favor of bis nephew, Yousief Izzectin. Wheat advanced 2 shillings per quarter in the Eugliih market last week largo foreigu arrivals. The Turks have only fifty thousand to sixty thousand men between Rust-chuk Rust-chuk and Sluimla. A third pontoon bridge over the Danube bas beeu constructed at Xa-hova. Xa-hova. Only 2,000 Turks were captured at Nikopolis; the remainder were killed, wounded or escaped. London is excited, but there ia no present indication of interference until un-til the porte sues for peace. The Turks are completely hemmed in by superior forces at all points from th? Danube to the BalkaiiB. The Russian left wing is marching irom the Dobrudscha one division against Silistria, anothnr against Bszarejick. Three largo Indian troop ships at Portsmouth, England, have been ordered or-dered to be ready for aea next Wednesday. Wed-nesday. The corouer'a jury in the case of Ilackett the, Montreal Orangeman, gave a verdict of murder by a person or persons unkuowu. Tbe dismissal of Redif from the Turkish ministry ia regarded as signifying sig-nifying an intention to fight the Russians Rus-sians to the last extremity. Tho fact that 40,000 Russians have gone through the Hainkai pass of the Balkans has produced a striking moral efioct, which ia quite distressing on tho part of the Turks. Gortschakof! agreed with Austria that the Danubiau principalities shall not participate in the war or receive any territorial aggrandizement after the conclusion of peace. Four vessels containing about 260 cubic yards of stone have been sunk by the Rusaians in the Sulina branch of the Danube, reducing the depth of water to four fett. A large Russian force attacked the Turka under Oiman Pasha covering Pleuna. Osman Pasha made a successful suc-cessful delence. The Russians retreated, re-treated, abandoning their dead and wounded. The pope has made arrangements to place the American church on an equality with the church in Europe, Eu-rope, making its government directly subject to the pomifl, A papal nuncio baa been appointed. A Pera correspondent telegraphs that the Turks are utterly demoralized by the Russian advance over the Bai-kani, Bai-kani, and doubts if any substantial opposition will be made to the Russian movement on Adrianoplc. It will be difficult to restrain the Cretans and Thesaaliaus any longer. The prestige of Turkey ia completly destroyed by her failure to guard the Danube and the Balkans. Greece is' not ready, however, to assert her : claims. The Russians are within three hours march of 1'hillipopolis. The Turks are now displaying great activity, troops and inanitions being cits- , patched in all haste. Unhappily tbe , fortifications at Adrianople are very imperfect and not even armed. |