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Show I FOREIGN BRIEFS. Tho Turks are fortifying the passes of Balkans. Persia has declared her intention not to join Russia. Ruatchuk has 200 cannon mounted, teaidea five gunboats. The Turkish troops purpose a movement move-ment on Herzegovina. The insurrection in tho Caucassas ia daily gaining ground. There are reports of fearful massacres massa-cres of ragahB at Durhend. The British squadron will leave Port Said May PJtti for the Piraces. several thousand Roumanians have been engaged on earthworks at Giur-gevo. Giur-gevo. The Roumanians hava mounted forty guua at Kalafat bearing on W idden. The Christians of Herzegovina are moving into Dalmatia, where maDy are dying of starvation. The Russian find the small country carts of Roumania insufficient for military transportation. No engagements have yet occurred m Europe except on the line of batteries bat-teries between Ibrail and Lemail. General Grant is to have a special audience with Queen Victoria and is to be the guest of Disraeli Beacona-field. Beacona-field. The Turks have captured two hundred hun-dred Russian vessels in the Danube containing over 130,000 pectolitrea of wheat. Tiie French fleet has been ordered to Hayti to enforce the payment ol the Haytian debt, which has been repudiated. re-pudiated. Turkish deserters from Ruatchuk who have arrived at Giurgevo complain com-plain of bad food and Bickness in the Turkish army. The Russians have advanced to Kara Kalisa in great force. The Turks will confront them at Topenak Kala. Both armidS am nrenarino for a pitched battle. Abdul Kerem is drawing all orceB from Macedonia and Albuuia to the Danube. The Turkish national guards throughout the south are armed and all available troops arc marching northward. |