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Show FOREIGN. EUROPE. SOCIALISM. ARRESTS. Berlin, 13. The government, with a view to ihe ri;presion of social democracy, intends to enforce a more rigid applii iTion of the pissport regu latiooB, ana a similarly ttrict enforce-neolo( enforce-neolo( the law relative to the preen and public meetings will also he en j lined upon all a unorilies in ihe count A woman i.nd two men were today to-day sentend to imprisonment fcr treasonablv utterances against the emperor tne woman to four yean, one of the men to two years, and the other to eighteen months. OFFICERS OF THE CONGitESS. Berlin, 13. It is understood to day's eitti"A ut tne congiess w.is merviy dev'-d to the formalities of elect ug ? puaident and bereau. The prssidfeucj .v is couferr' j upon Prince Bismarck, at the suggestion of Count Audrassy, who advocated thia seleo I lion not aimply on the ground of traditional custom, but for the eminent services which Bismarck, on all sides, was acknowledged to have rendered. Count Andraasy also ex proe-.ed the fullest hopes for the recovery re-covery ol the revered German emperor. em-peror. The first real working Bitting of the congress will be held next Monday. This long ii-terval appears to be due j to a desire to facilitate the Utk of the congress hy preliminary negutiatiuiie between the plenipotentiaries. Oue such conference, yesterday evening between Counts Schouvalofl and Audrassy, Au-drassy, lasted till late at night. ROUMANIAN TPOTEbT. Bucharest, 13 In cousequence of the vigorous protest of Koumania ' against the Russian advanoe towards 1 I Presti, the Ru-eian commander ! General Drenlelm baa ordered his 'troops to retire Un kilometers from tb-3 Roumanian lines. On the other 1 hend, the Russian outposts on the , Pl jesti and Filiperi lines have been j ordered to advance southward as far I a- the Prahava rivr. General Dreutclm, however, has given assur- an-p that be will not cross that stream. |