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Show FOREIGN. EIKOPE, England's progress to a state of war, London, 23. The Daily News, in a leading editorial, Bays that the policy of the British ministry is becoming a matter of growing importance. The military preparations tuny be mere, precautions, but there is not one of tbem which does not mark our pro erf's tn a nLata nf wat Thou am understood abroad, and every one of them increases thedifficulty of maintaining main-taining peace. It is exceedingly doubtlul whether tijo full import ut I some of those so called precautions is yet realized. Tue most important ol jail, the dicpatch of native troops from India, has beeo passed over with very I little remark, although tbe measure marks a revolution in our Indian .military policy. Of its eflects on ; India there will be only too many occasions of speaking. The Indian government was v. ise to gag the vernacuUr press belorn calling tbe natives of India to the aid fif the nation which holds their country coun-try by right of conquest. That is a subject on which a liee native press would certainly have had mujh to say. Just now, however, we are concerned to know where these troops are attnt to be put. The native' troops are preparing to come, bu? whero they will be landed is a ministerial minis-terial secret. At Calcutta, it is given out that their destination is Malta, and it may be, but if so, where are the troops going who are already in that garrison. We may take it for I certain that the Indian troops will not be landed in Malta, in addition to those who are already there. Malta is lull, and the only inference which can be drawn is that in the plan ot the government, by the time the Indian regiments arrivo, a destina lion, at present unknown, will be found either for them or for tbe corps they will displace. It is quite as likely that these troops will be landed at some Tursish port as that they will go to Malta. Very little time can elapse before we know what is intended by the government. We may suppose that the resolution of , our government depends upon this or that contingency, but tbe practical lesson of the laBt few weeks is that in those matters a resolute hand is guiding a mystified people to an appointed ap-pointed end. GRANT AT VENICE, Venice, 23. Gen. Grant arrived here from Florence last night, and was received at the railway station by the officials of the city and the United States consul. TEE MUSSULMANS INSURRECTION. Constantinople, 23. Grand Duke Nicholas bas progressed to Seras-kierste Seras-kierste to send a 'mixed commission of Russian and Turkish officers to the scene of the conflicts between the armed Mussulmans and Russian troops mentioned in a dispatch from that city last night, with the object of pacification, and that the proposal had been accepted. The porte is not acquainted with the exact nature ot this insurrection, but it is supposed the insurgents consist of three bat talions of the former garrison of Niech, who, retreating to the mountains, moun-tains, joined the scattered remains of Suleiman Pasha's army, and have since been rain tor ced by the Mussulman Mussul-man inhabitants of the locality. This revolt is between the valley of Maritza and San Stefano. Another insurrection of Mussulmen has broken cut in Macedonia. The commandant at Monastir has sent for troops. The Russians have also dispatched dis-patched forces to the scene. THE STRIKERS. Manchester,'.23. A meeting of the Master Cotton Spinners' association finally resolved that it would neither refer the dispute to arbitration nor accept any mediation. The strike at Preston is ended, the spinners having resolved to work on the beet terms obtainable. The weavers, winders and warpers are all following their example. NICHOLAS AND OORTSCHAKOFi1. St. Petersburg, 23. Grand Duke Nicholas will return in about tea dayB. Gortschakofl is indisposed, THE INVITATIONS. The Paris journals state that invitations invita-tions to the congress, to examine the changes necessary in the existing treaties, have been semi officially communicated to the several powers. All except England have declared their readineBs to accept the invitation invita-tion unreservedly. England still insists in-sists on the condition that all great changes in the east, such as those proposed by the treaty of San Stefano, shall be treated as a European and ' not merely as a Turco-Russian quea- tion. I REFITSE TO YIELD. J Athens, 23. It is reported the in- j surgents refuse to lay down their arms, but a five days' truce has been : arranged. It is hoped that negotiations negotia-tions for an armistice, which tbe British consuls are now conducting, will be successful. |