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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. 1 One thousand Russians waie captured cap-tured at Bayazid. A fresh attack by the Russians on BatoumiB expected. There are 800 cases of typhoid in the Russian hospitals. Thirteen Turkish shells have Btruck the hospital at Giurgevo. The Russian bombardment of Kara ft very severe. The garrison is sufl'or-ing sufl'or-ing greatly. One hundred people have been killed in the streets of Ruatchuk by Russian shells. The khedive is taking effective measures to prevent tho threatened damage to the Suez canal. Col. Wilkina, collector of the port of Baltimore, positively retuses to resign at the request of the president. McMahon will issue a manifesto setting forth tho conservative programme pro-gramme for the French elections. Sir Henry Halford propeses to bring a sirong rifle team to New to shoot at Creedmoor in September. A terribly destructive rain storm has occurred at Buenos Ayrea, doing immense damage to livo stock and crops. A Constantinople dupatch says that Mukhtar Pasha has won a great vic tory and has taken a thousand prisoners. pris-oners. The Russian government has explained ex-plained the uncourteous treatment of Col. Wellealey by Grand Duke Nicholas. The Direct cable company is to be wound up for the purposo of consolidating consoli-dating with the Angle-American telegraph tele-graph company. Id view of tho declarations of Russia and Turkey in regard to the Suez canal England will not take steps to protect the canal. The Turks will probably make a Btand east of Siliatria. Another attempt at crosaing the Danube between be-tween Giurgevo and Turna is likely, j The bombardment of Ruatchuk by the Russians is terrible. The Turka stand fire with great coolness and reply vigorously and with good aim. The republican senators have issued a declaration in favor of the election of the 3GG republican repub-lican deputies who voted against the MoMahon government. Earl Derby in reply to a deputa-tion deputa-tion said the intimation for a renewal of diplomatic relations between Mexico and England must come i rum iutj juiujei luuuvij. The agitation in Constantinople against Redifl Paaha, minister of war, and all the military authorities is on the increase. The Turkish success in Montenegro has rathw: increased the : txcitement. I The Russians have passed 18,000 men over tho Danube at HirBOva, a point weBtof Matcbin, and effected a juuetion between the two detachments, detach-ments, which were to march agaiust the Turkish iutrenched line of railroad between Chernovadi and Kustendji, the latter a Black eea port. The TurkB retreated towarda this liDe, abandoning the whole north end of Drobudscha. |