OCR Text |
Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. Silver el jsed in London on Thursday Thurs-day at 5oid. Specie in tho Bank of France increased in-creased 10,000,000 francs the past week. Demonstrations by idle and desti-, desti-, tute men continue to be made in Berlin. Herzegovinan insurgents intend i oflering to tho prince of Montenegro the chief command. The armistice between Montenegro and the porte is officially prolonged until the 1st of April. General Ignalieff left London on Thursday for Paris. He will go immediately im-mediately to Vienna and thece to St. Petersburg. The international commission of European engineers and scientists will complete the survey of the Darien ship canal about April let. The Catholic members of tho English Eng-lish parliament will present an address ad-dress to the pope on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of hia episcopate. episco-pate. Russian papers propose that tho settlement of the question of the restoration of the Eoumania portion of Beaarabia to Russia be settled by a plcbiBcitum. An Amsterdam banker offered to loan Rusaia 25,000,000 roubles at 8 per cent, if the latter would disarm, and release no other loan for five years. Tho conditions were not com- j plied with. j Bullion in the Bank of England ; decreased 103,000 the past week, Proportion of bank reserve to liabilities liabili-ties 45j per cent. Amount of bullion that entered the bank on balance Thursday 200,000. |