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Show FOIililUN BRIEFS. Austria is mobilizing her army in earaest. The British army is in progress of mobilization. Sixty-one small pox dtalhs.in,Lon-don dtalhs.in,Lon-don last week. Prince Charles of Roumania has arrived at Plojeitt. Incrsastd activity is noted on both sides of the Danube Kuasia sends her Circassian prisoners prison-ers of war to Siberia. Lord Salisbury is said to oppose any warlike action by the British gorern-ment. gorern-ment. The porte is about to send a note to Athens relative to the Greek armaments. arma-ments. Reports ef military operation") in Montenegro are conflicting. Both sides claim victories. Tho arrival of the czar at Plojcsti was made the occasion of one of the grandest fetes on record. An Italian corvette with 200 men aboard has gone down in the Dardanelles Dar-danelles by striking a torpedo. Gen. Grant ia to visit hU daughter, Mrs. Sartoris, in Southampton, and will be received by the corporation. SchcuvaloQ's note to Derby is not so pacilic as England would hko to make it appear, and trouble ia looked for. The receipts of the Vatican from the pope's jubilee were six aud a half million lire in gold, exclusive of valuable valua-ble presents. The Turks have been delcattd in an engagement on the southern frontier. Fighting continues in the vicinity of Duga Pais. The porte has taken measures to avoid a conflict in tho Suez canal navigation, 'Die canal will bo free to all vessels except Russian. A rumor comes from Bucharest that Turkey bos oflered to pay live milliards us war indemnity and allow the Russians to retain tbe places they have captured in Asia. Russia's last circular claims that the government has nevei failed to repeat that nothing was further from1 its intention than to claim the exclusive ex-clusive right of Bcllling tho questions at issue, but thataftcr having achieved its task of reducing the "Turks to obedienco it meant to act in concert with the other powers in bringing about a lasting settlement. |