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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. London silver quotation 53;d. The French elections will probably be held August otb. The Turkish forces in Montenegro number about 60,000. All the ministers now on the Danube Dan-ube are surrounded by torpedoes. The Roumanian forces are preparing prepar-ing to cross the Danube nearKalafat. The German emperor will meet the emperor of Austria at Salzburg shortly. Bismarck reached Berlin on Sunday, Sun-day, aud left on Monday for Schon-hausen. Schon-hausen. Kustendji is depopulated. The British Brit-ish guuboat Cockatrice saveel several families. The Turks are romoving the rolling stock of the railway irom Rustchuk te Varna. President McMahon reviewed the garrison ot Paris on Sunday. He was well received. A murderous emuete has broken out at Rustchuk against the Christian population. Affairs in Mexico are now settling down to peaceful order aa rapidly us was expected. The czar's proclamation ie regarded at St. Petersburg as a Bignal for a Bulgarian insurrection. Roumania will claim full indemnity indem-nity fcr war expenses and depredations depreda-tions of the Turkish armies. A Bteamer filled with Roumanian soldiera was aunk on Saturday by a Turkish monitor near Rahivia. Tbe British Mediterranean fleet wftB to leave the Grecian waters on Monday, perhaps lor Constantinople. The order of General Sherman to General Ord is exciting a hostile feeling feel-ing against the United Statea in Mexico. Mex-ico. The Turkish loan of $10,000,000 was advanced by a Paris banking house, secured by the jewels from the shrine of Mecca. The diamonds, jewelry, parasols, necklaces, with other valuables, o( tbe late Sultan Abdul Aziz have been sold by auction on the Paris bourse. The bridge over the Danube begun on the 28th of June at Siniuilza, was partially destroyed by a storm on the 29 ;b, but would be completed Sunday eveuing. It is believed that the Turkish mouitors at Nikopol is havo been udandoued by the Turks, as no sign of hie bus been seen on them for two or three daya. The success of the Turki ia Montenegro Monte-negro is believed to be complete. Tney place their entire losses at 2,000, while the Montenegrins says that 10,000 Turks were killed. |