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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. The active siege of Itustclick has n3t commenced. Tho-Jkissian headquarters are at Bich, Tills means they have been forced back. The eldest son of Schemyl, who was in the Russian army, has joined the Atchasian insurgents. A transport with 26,000 rifles and a large quantity of ammunition and torpedoes will arrive at Athens next work. A meeting at Pesth, Hungary, de. dared in favor of intervention for the maintenance of the integrity of the Ottoman empire. In consequence of the barbarous character of the war it is felt by everybody that the m iment for some action on the part of Europe is ap.. poaching. In Montreal steps are being taken to prosecute prominent Orangemen as members of an illegal association, secret societies being prohibited in the province. The Russian artillery will shortly be reinforced by 200 guns and only then will a fresh advance be attempted at-tempted into Armenia in order to gainmeme fortified plafiis before the winter sets in. , Ninety thousand men are on the way to reinforce the Russian Circassian Circas-sian army. Three brigades of artillery artil-lery with forty-eight guns each, and ten batteries of Cossack artillery with sixty guns each have already arrived at Tiflis. After the Roumanian troops had been requested by Russia to occupy Nikopolis, the commanding general was enabled to surround Piece without with-out disturbing the Russian garrison at Niekopolis, and the Roumanians were informed that their services would not be needed., |