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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. The duke of Edinburg is on his way to the Suez canal. New York specie engagements for : Europe Saturday $750,000 gold. j Bullion withdrawn from tho Bank of Euglaud on balance Friday, 71.-000. 71.-000. The archbishop of Quito, Central America, died very suddenly March. 30th. The specie iu the Bank of France increased three million francs the past week. Tho works for the defense of Constantinople Con-stantinople will be constructed by inhabitants. The weekly statement of the Imperial Im-perial Bank of Germany shows a decrease of four million marks. Volunteers from militia regiments have asked for hospital and transport service by the English government. Courbet, painter, consents to pay a fine of $00,000 for his share iu the ; destruction of tbe Vendome column. ' The Imperial B.tnk of Germany has raised the rate of discount to five per cent for bills and six for advances. ad-vances. Two thousand colliers in Dartmund district, Prussia, have struck and the Btrike threatens to assume Bcrious proportions. Chefket Pasha will go to Kars. The papers announce that the Russians have withdrawn from Kars and Ardahan, Byazid and Kagea-man. Kagea-man. The sultan is much pleased with Earl Derby's reply to Prince Gorta ohakofl's circular and has ordered the porte to thank the English government. govern-ment. The junior fellows of Trinity college col-lege aud Cambrideeuniversity, have sent a petition to the British parliament parlia-ment deprecating the calamity of war and saying that the peace of the empire cannot be maintained to long as the Ottoman empire exists in its present form. From BerlingComes a report that the attempt by the Russians to cross tho Danube at Reni on Wednesday was defeated by Turkish infantry and gunboats, and a bridge that they had. thrown over the river was destroyed, and a largo number of Russians killed. The Italian ministerial organ says that the senate's vote, rejecting the clerical abuse bill is in defiance of tbe Government's ecclesiastical policy. Tho ministry is bound to meet the senate's action by introducing a civil 1 marriage bill and the promised plan for the reorganization of ecclesiastical 'property. |
