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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. The defeat of the Japanese insurgents insur-gents is announced. Gladstone's health is causing his famiiy anxiety. Medical men advise htm to go abroad. Ristics, the Servian prime minister, declare! that Servia bus made peace and intends to preserve it. The liabilities of Lockhand &, Dempster, Liverpool, who l&iled Tuesday Tues-day are estimated at half a million. A Russian note to tho powers has been confided to special messengers for the difierent capitals and will probably be presented on Monday. I The commercial classes of Italy warn their government against a close I intimacy with Russia, whose compe-I compe-I tilion in the Mediterranean trade is 1 feared. Two hundred thousand German colonists in southern Russia intend to caiigraie to Brazil and other parts of A-oierica to avoid being drafted into 'tlw army. t'he Liverpool and Texas Bteam-tfuij. Bteam-tfuij. compauy has determined upon voluntary liquidiaUon, io conse-quunce conse-quunce ol the unprofitableness of the steamship trade. 'Count Amdrasay entertains no further hope of peace, but trusts tbo campaign may be short, so that the neutral powers may force Turkey and RusBia to stop in time to prevent the struggle from becoming general. |