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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. London Biker quotation 54iJ. The English squadron has arrived at Crete xao sultan lias resolved to proclaim a holy war. The czar was enthusiastically received re-ceived at St. Petersburg. The duke of Aoata has sent the pepe-a chalice worth $2,400. Tho porto has decided to grant a general amnesty lo the Bulgarians. The weather in England and Scotland Scot-land is rather unfavorable for the crops. Mexico is peaceful, but there a conflict between President Diaz and congress. Riled sixty-eight pounders are said to be on the way from England for the citadel at Quebec. A decreo of the czar orders the retd-mission retd-mission of General Tchernayeff into the Russian service. Tho assembly of Greek notables have voted a war tax on land calculated calcu-lated to produce -',500,000. The Asiatic army of the Turks was reinforced on Sunday at TrebizOnd with 10,000 troops for" the interior. Diaz proposes to reduce the army uf Mexico to 10,000 men, enough to keep tho country Iree from bauds of robbers. The Russians have commenced to bombard the Turkish town of Widdeu from Kalafat, on the opposite bank of the Danube. In no other part of the world could British commerce be so seriously damaged as by a few activo vessels in the Pacific ocean. Further particulars of the Turkish defeat and losses before Kara have been received. It ia reported that Ali Pasha was taken prisoner. The Russian journals criticise severely Earl Derby's note. One pa- ' per says the only possible reply to it could he a declaration of war. President Diaz desires the Mexican congress to dissolve iu September, but the majority declare that the present term does not expire until 1878. Roumanian troops, consisting of two battalions of cavalry and five battalions bat-talions of infantry, with forty Krupp guns, will take the field immediately. The Paris Temps, commenting on Earl Derby's note, says: Such language lan-guage is rarely used in communica- nuiio uuiu uiio iiieumj' puwer lu another. The Greek soveruruent baa sent a note to tho porte protesting against the release et the Turkish brigands who had been imprisoned for disturbing disturb-ing the Greek frontier. The murder of a number of Roumanians Rou-manians by the Turkish irregulars in a raid on Sunday created much excitement ex-citement in Bucharest and greatly strengthened the war party. Lord Derby's reply to Gortscha-kofl's Gortscha-kofl's circular has produced considerable consider-able surprise and seneation at Berlin. It is said to have caused serious pain and displeasure at St. Petersburg. Business on the stock exchange on Tuefiday was quiet, but a more confident con-fident feeling prevailed than yesterday yester-day in consequence of Cross' statement state-ment of the government's policy. A London out door meeting was held at Trafalgar square Monday night. Counter resolutions were proposed pro-posed in favor of the government and of Gladstone, but it was impossible to say which carried. It is suggested in England that the mission ol the grand duke's visit to New York, with Beveral war vessels, looks to their readiness for ewooping upon British etoamers in the Atlantic trade in the ovent of war. Nothing yet has been heard from the steamship City of Bntsscls; seventeen seven-teen days out, having on board the Canadian pilgrims for Rome. It is hoped that nothing more serious than the breakdown of the machinery has occurred. A groat meeting at St. James hall, Londeu, Monday night in favor of Gladstone's policy, passed resolutions to the effect that for England to engage en-gage in a war which might have the eflect of prolonging Turkish rule would bo a crime agaiuat the world. Franco and Austria have confidentially confiden-tially informed the Vatican that they cannot open negotiations based upon the temporal power of the pope. Tho holy see replied that the assistance invoked was strictly on bohalfofthe independonco of its SDirilual authority. author-ity. The New York World says that ex-Preeideut ex-Preeideut Grant on his arrival in London will have a special audience with Queen Victoria and be the guest ol Disraeli and other eminent meu. ft is said that in doferenco to tho high office he has filled tho queen will pay him a visit. The British press is sonsitive regarding re-garding the presence of tho Russian squadron at San FranciBco. It expresses ex-presses the bulief that its chief purpose is an attaok upou and eeizure of British Columbia in the evont that England allies itself with Turkey in ''the pending war. |