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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. L'.;:.dun si!vc-r quotation on Monday, 5o.d. Midhat Pasha hits arrived in Pome. I-jaac Low it Co's. cotton house, Liverpool, lias failed, T:ie French senate and chamber of deputies have adjourned until May 1st. General IgnatiefT has arrived in Vienna and had two conferences with Count Andrassy. The pope was sufficiently well on Saturday to give an audience, but had to be carried. The porto will not assent to the piotocol if it requires Turkcv to demobilize before Russia. Violent scenes continue in the , Transvaal republic over tho question j of annexation to Great Britain. ! The levco cn ma.vse is proceeding briskly in Bosnia. MohammetaiiB are learning the drill rapidly. 1 Captain Henry C. Small, his mntca I and all Lho crew oi tno bark Edmund : P. rjinnyt died by cholera at Akyah. The archbishop of Naples and Perupia and tho vicar of liome arc mentioned as candidates fur the papacy. pa-pacy. Deputies in the Turkish parliament intend to question poverment on the subject of Midhat Pasha's banishment. banish-ment. The protocol presupposes a conclusion conclu-sion of peaco with Montenegro and the demobilization of tho Turkish forces. Several European cabinets aro endeavoring en-deavoring to secure an understanding between England and Russia with a prospect of success. England has insisted neither on introducing tho disarmament clause into the protocol nor on submitting the protocol to Turkey. The condition of the pope's health ia serious, despite the optimist bulletins. bul-letins. Cardinals Simconi and Valleta are already preparing for a conclave. The porto will submit to the Turkish parliament next week for final decision the concessions which it is willing to grant to Montenegro. General D. C, Spotowilch hns organized the Bosnian insurgent forces into ten bodies, lho majority of which aro armed with Pea body rifles. Tho Flying S.-otenman, fast mail tram between London and Scotland, ran elf the track on Sunday, killing five per.-.ous and seriously wounding many others. M:irquis D'Alza-3, aid tie camp of President MacMahon, who weut to Berlin lo congratulate tho emperor, on his birthday, met with a distinguished distin-guished reception. . T,sc si;5P t'llunoun, S.iu Francisco lor London, put into Peruambuco Kbnmry I'.iili, with the crow of tiie oark Daw Eulalie. The two vessels had collided and tho latter was sunk. Laborers on the relief works in Madras and Bombay were increased 12.000 lho past week. At Hydrabud, 43.1 hXJ natives aro on Ihe relief works. Recent rainfalls in India promise to do good. The porte still declines lo cede to Montenegro Nicsies and Houchin, and Montenegro refuses to withdraw her demands. England advises tho porte to comply after dismantling tho fortifications. Natives of the western coast of Africa captured and plundered tho American schooner Thomas Airker-ion, Airker-ion, and as punishment tho British war steamer Avon burned seven villages on lite Congo river auti killed three natives. The AiLstrian cabinet will inform gnanefl that it snil considers the rc-orms rc-orms proposed by count Andrassy to be ho be.t means of preserving peace C.r.st.aus m inrfcr-y. Andra-y will r;r'J"f:.. and Turkey demnbii!.:.? simultaneouslv. ,;"lfiveniii;i,ri Glance on hand , J"r,,:"'b irvl'.Tumtv. represent-mg represent-mg the share of thy former North-German North-German con federation, wiil be distributed dis-tributed among tho atatcs which bemnged to li,0 confederation. A further sum of th.-L-e and a quarter mdhons m iy h3 expLcteJ frma the ranie funds. |