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Show FOREIGN. The Ensicru War. Erzeroum, 10. Mukhtur Pasha has efiected a junction with a portion of the garrison of Kara and Tocbivili-koha, Tocbivili-koha, three miles from tho fortifications. fortifica-tions. The Russians continue to retreat on Kurukdara. Ismail Pasha iB at Geussoum, three miles from the frontier. General Terpukassog eccu-pins eccu-pins a position on the frontier. Constantinople, 10. Admiral Hornby baa returned to Besika bay. A decree has been issued ordering tho creation of a national guard of Constantinople, six batlHlions of which are to be formed immediately. It iB said that Greece intonds purchasing pur-chasing some Danish men-of war. Abdul Kerim Pasha has asked for 00,000 more troops. It is probable that both ho and Ahmed Eyoub Paeha will be superseded by the sultan sul-tan and Mehmet Ali Pasha respect ively. Mehmet Ruchdi Pasha, ex-vizier, ex-vizier, is charged with Iho Buprem control of military aflairs. The ob jeet of the appointment of the latto: is lo secure the acquiescence of th people if further resistance should bi found useless. The confidence it Ruchdi Pasha is such that all will bi ready to accept his opiuion on this point. - St. Petersburg, 10. The Russian telegraphic agency has issued a statement state-ment admitting an alliance between Roumania and Eervia as not exactly impossible. It asserts, however, that 'such alliance could not in any way aflect tbe good relations between Austria Aus-tria and Russia. Tbe agency thinkB tho importance of the dispatch of tho British fleet to Betiika bay was diminished dimin-ished by explanations in the British parliament. General Scmeka telegraphs from Odessa that the Turkish fleet has commenced bombarding Eupatoria. Berlin, 10. At the last interview Lord Odo Ruesell infurmed Prince Bismarck that England would under no condition whatever suffer Russian occupation of Constantinople. Prince Bismarck replied that he considered the occupation of Constantinople the beBt way to obtain the purpores lor which tbe war was commenced. Vienna, 10. A Bpecial from Asia states that in Ardanudsch district, June 2Sth, the Russians pillaged eleven village and killed fifty people, on tho pretext that they had fought . against them. On Friday last Gen. TergukaBsofl returned to Russian territory. ter-ritory. His force mdrcbed forty kilometres kilo-metres daily, and is belieped to have lost all its war materials. Bucharest, 10. The prince and princeis of Roumania .left here thie 1 morning for the headquarters of the ; Roumanian army at Krajova. t Tho Turkish monitor ashore at the mouth of the Danube remains firmly ' fixed. Her crew has been taken oil and she ia now in possession o: 1 two Russian veieels. |