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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, the famous French astronomer, is dead. Tne Paris Bien Public has been againeuized for reporting GambeUa's trial. No truth in rpport of offensive alliance between Russia and Greece against Turkey. M. Grevy will stand for the ninth arroudisement of Paris which wbb represented re-presented by Thiers. Turks bombarded Russians io Scbipka pa.-a on Friday and made assaults, which were repulsed. Charles W. Brenter, bookkeeper fnr Einaouel HoLTiuan, St. Louis, arrested tor embazzlmg $7,000. A Russian official dispatch admits a loas in Sobipka pass of Sept. 17th ot ibirty-one officers and 1,000 msn killed and wounded. ludun Commissioner Smith has twen appointed consul general at Montreal vice William A. Dart ol New York, recalled. A provision and ammunition train u nder Clefket Pasha rein forced Odinan Pasha, having defeated fifteen bat a lions of Russians. The French minister of justice iu slructs that all electoral addresses be carefully read in order to nreveut out rages against the president, violont menaces or falsehoods. The en-jounttrs Tnursday and Friday near Biela are said to have beeu greatly exaggerated by the Turks. According to information received re-ceived th.'y were drawn battles and the forces engaged were not large. Tne portehas not yet replied to the Greek note protesting against the rest ictiona on the entry of vsusels into the Gulf ot Arli, but it is thought that it will refuso compliance with the Greek demands and that a diplomatic diplo-matic difficulty witn England will ensue. Italy has sent a note to the parte supporting Greece. The porte has ordered that the Gershofls, the Manchester mercantile family condemned to death, shall bo brought to Constantinople, but the miliinry authoriti-a are not disposed dis-posed to obey his orders, and it is probuble ihe prisoners will be exe cuted. Tbe citizens of Manchester have laid the matter before Earl Derby, ft i8s:iid that this case a iose out of a report made by Gerslicfl to tits London Times as to the condition uf Bulgaria. |