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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. - An- effort is making in the Freud legislature to amend the etringeni press laws. ' Crete is purchasing arms in Italy, and Turkey has strengthened hei fortresses on that island. It is Baid that a formidable Rusaiarj iron clad squadron will enter the Mediterranean in the spring. Charles Leoinos, proprietor of the Dominion foundry, -Montreal, hat made an assignment; liabilities eti mated at 100,000; assets large. - The worBt apprehensions are felt o: a Btiike of the Durham (English) colliers, col-liers, which would effect 30,000 tc 40,000 men and involve stoppage ol the Cleveland iron industry. Midhat Pasha has been dismissed from the office of TurkiBb grand vizier and Adbeim Pasha, noted for his violent opposition to the European proposals, has been appointed grand vizier. The Turkish ministry has been- reorganized throughout. The dismissal of Midhat Pasha as Turkish grand vizier is attributed to his schemes of constitutional reform and to the discovery of a conspiracy to overthrow the sultan and replace him by ex-Sultan Murad. The deposed de-posed vizier has been banished from the country. The Turkish peace propositions are that Servia shall promise not to assist or harbor insurgents, shall proclaim the equality of all religions, which in this case chiefly concerns the Jews, keep the Turkish flag permanently hoisted at Belgrade side by side with the Servian as a symbol that Prince Milan simply holds the fortress in trust for tho porte. Mexico continues in agitation and turmoil. The elections are favorable to Diaz, who ia urged to haeten bie return to the capital. Business is in a deplorable condition and failures are numorous. A revolution is holding against Diaz by the money lenders, who make exorbitant interest out ol the necessities of the revolutionists. Diaz recently paid $25,000 interest on a loan of $300,000 for sixty days. Robbers are appearing everywhere, and the church party in some localities locali-ties are making disturbances. A petition is in circulation praying government gov-ernment for the return of the Sisters of Charity, expelled from the country two years ago. |