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Show FOREIGN. EUROPE. OKA NT. Florence, 22. Gan. Grant has left for Venice. GONE VISITING. London, 22. Lord Bcaconsfield has gone to visit Lord Salisbury at the IuIUt's residence in Hertfordshire. TUE NEW PROPOSITION. St. Petersburg, 22. The Agence Ruaae confirms the report that the proposition (or the simultaneous withdrawal of tho British fleet and Russians from the vicinity of Constantinople Constan-tinople has been accepted in principle, and adds that negotiations continue relative to the withdrawal, and to a , preliminary conference to settle the programme of the cnnnrces. CONTlUDICrED. Constantinople, 22. The report that new difficulties have arisen in connection with the mediation of Germany is contradicted. Layard has received information that the arrangement for the withdrawal to Adrianople and Beaika bay ia prob able. I MUESULUANS ARMING, The intelligence in regard to the military situation ia less encouraging. A report is curreut that 80,000 1 Mussulmans, presumably in Ilia Bal kan districts, have armed themselvet wilh the cannon and riOes left behind by Suleiman Pasha at the time of his retreat, and attacked the Russians, ft is said tbat the Russians have lost 900 men and thirteen officers, and have asked for reinlorcemenls from Adrianople. 1 BULGARIAN OUTRAGES, The Bulgarians have attacked eight Mussulman villages and committed great outrages. APPLICATIONS FOU I3N L1STMKKT. Constantinople 22. Layard has ofk-ra to serve in tho British army from all parts of Turkey. CKUlSlXO. The Russian imperial yacht Livadta and some other vessels have vieited the Princess islands. WHY? Il is reported lhai the Turtinh government gov-ernment has asked the Rusiian authorities why their ships approached approach-ed the British fleet. not coaniAL. The relations between Layard and the new Turkish minutry ure not cordial. ITALY AND THE CJNGKEt-3, Rome, 22 Several journals state that Italy has received and accepted an invitation to the conference. GREECE WANTS TO EN TEH. The Greek envoy has arrived here It is reported that he is charged to obtain the promise ol Italy to endeavor en-deavor to secure the admittance of Greece to the congreB im the Bamo luotiug as the signatories of the treaty ol Pons, |