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Show , Foreign Htsceilaoy. London, 31. The Odessa chamber of commerce man if est mucn concern at the extra facilities allorded the United States for exporting wheat by deepening tin mouth of the Miesid sippi. Oflicial returns show that twenty officers and 400 men died of cholera and other diseases on toe return march from the Afghan campaign, while only about 100 men were killed in action. Bullion in the Bmk of England increased 273,000 the paat week. Proportion ot reserve to liability 501 per cent. Bullion withdrawn from the Bank '( England on balance to-day 7o, 000. A letter was lately received by Horalio J. Sprague, United States conful at Gibraltar, demanding that $3 U00 be deposited in a certain spot on pain of the death of himself and family. The Spanish authorities investigated in-vestigated the matter and arrested icurteeu personson suspicion. Pprague ha since received a letter containing still more audacious threats. St. Petersburg, 31. About 100 persons were arrested on the Pavlosk estate of Grand Duke Coustantine, brother of the Czar. Khirgese, owing to tbeir allfgiauce to China, made a fresh raid on the Russian district of Setgbiapol. Cossacks Cos-sacks pursued them twmiiy miles beyond be-yond the frontier, took fourteen prisoners and recaptured they booty. |