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Show FOREIGN BMEFS. The Pall Mall Gazette advocates the occupation of Egypt forthwith. The Circassians in Thessaly pillaged the monastry of Kagine and killed the monks. Servia has given assurances to Austria thai ho will observe the strictest strict-est neutrality. The report that the pope has conferred con-ferred an order on President Mao Mahon ia denied. Prince GortschakotT looks very ill and is a mere ghot of hiunelf. It is thought he will not live long. Nearly all the districts of Roumania have been placed under martial law, the country being full of spies. Horrible Turkish outrages are reported, re-ported, particularly from Naviluzar, old Servia, The Servians are much excited. Tne fighting in Montenegro baa been very sanguinary. On Monday 600 Montenegrins and 1,200 Turks were killed. The Roumanian army ready for active fighting numbers 55,000 regulars, regu-lars, 5,0i0 militia and 5,000 regulars employed id non-combatant duties. The houses of 150 Jewish families xere pillagod by a mob in Dowbania. Eleven persons were killed, twenty four wounded and 90,000 ducats stolen. Ex-President Grant attended an agricultural show at Bath. His reception re-ception was enthusiastic. The mayor presented an add less, and the general responded. The Oxford university will confer the degree of D. C. L, on ex President Presi-dent Uraut. The ceremony of presenting pre-senting him the freedom of the city will Uke place on the 15th. A French circular has been issued ordering the prosecution of persons circulating for signatures addresses or petitions to certain factions of tbe senate sen-ate or chamber of deputies. Ex-President Lerdo, in a letter published pub-lished in the World, Bays that Mexico could not consent to allow American troops to enter her territory without submitting to violation of her rights as a sovereign and independent na lien. It is reported in London that England Eng-land is about to purchase the founders' foun-ders' shares in tbe Suez canal and the porte'a eovereign rights in Egypt, but some think that it ia merely a stock-jobbing rumor. It is rumored that the Russians are about to attemnt to cross the Danube at Nikopolis, where the river is only half a mile wide. The Turks are massing troops towards Nikopolie, and must be reducing the garrisons of the quadrilateral. It is believed that the German government, with the concurrence of England, will advise Turkey to conclude con-clude peace soon as possible, Russia having already informed the cabioets at London, Vienna and Berlin tbut she would agree to conclude peace on the baa 18 of a protocol accepting the concession of tbe territory in Asia Minor instead of an indemnity. |