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Show l.lltOl'KA NOTES Miidrid, 28. Intelligence hai been received here that numbere of inhab itauts are dying from starvation at Fez and Mequioez, Morocco. London, 2S. A dispatch from Ceu stanlinople under date of the 26th, aays: "Russians continue to retreat on Kirk Killissa and Adrianople, where they expect to arrive about the 2d of October. Yesterday General Skobelofi, with the fourth corps, was at Tchataldja and was about to move to Tehorhi, where he will be joined by the nioth corps which lately occupied, the country between RodnBto and the northern shore of the gulf of Sarou, and a large part of which waa concen trutfir hr-tnrrt thn Tl ilair finna ft h.u been arranged thai, the Turkish infantry in-fantry shall advance, keeping at a distance of twenty-five kilometres. The intervening space will bo in great part occupied by Bmall bodies of cavalry, cav-alry, iu the hope of preventit g dla " orders. General Skobelofi haa issued public notice that a court martial will be formed and all persona convicted of certain specified crimes will be punished by death. Steps are being taken to create a financial commission in which there will be an Ottoman president, and two foreign vice presidents, one English Eng-lish and the other French. Priuco Lobanofl, the Russian ambassador, is expected to return nere from the Crimea on Sunday. The liverymen ot London met at Guildhall, to day, for the election of a lord mayor for the ensuing civil year. Sir Charles Western, alder man of Bridge ward, waa chosen. Rome, 28. Dispatch to the Courier D'ltalit, from Athens, states that England is at present in communication com-munication with the powers wfth a view to attempting a settlement. Ibe Greek question on the basis suggested by Mid hat Pasha, whereby Greece would receive the island M Crete, but a third less territory on ihd main Jand than proposed by the con greea. Vienna, 28. The duke of Wur-temburg Wur-temburg telegraphs that Ltono surrendered sur-rendered on Saturday morniug. After the place wts completely iuveated it was bombarded by thirty guns which greatly damaged the fortifications. The Turkish quarter was besieged and tne insurgents made several unsuccessful unsuc-cessful attempts to break out. St. Petersburg, 28. It is officially denied that Russia bad anything to do with the ameer's rt jectiou of the British Brit-ish mission. It is stated in official quarters that the conjectures of the EufciUh press to that eflect are merely the outcome of the antagonism existing exist-ing during the late war, when it was admitted, in consequence of the re port that England w.ia attempting to create difficulties iu Bokhara and elsewhere, that Russia took various; measures and contemplated several expeditions to reconnoitre the neighboring neigh-boring territories, which, however, were countermanded at the first sign of the congresij resulting in peace. |