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Show FOREIGN BRIEFS. London silver quotation, 53Jd. j Samuel WarreD, English author, is dead. Mehmet Allis vanguard is within twenty milea,o( Tirnova. The masons of London have struck work for a reduction ol hours and increase in-crease of wages. A Btreet drain caved in at Toronto, killing Charles B. Brown and F, W. Loublio. Three others were badly insured. The English ministerial banquet has been abandoned in consequence of the death of the first lord of the admiralty. Suleiman Paaha's corps has effected a junction with Rami. Pasha near Terni Selgraha and an engagement is proceeding. The Russians again attacked Plevna, and fighting continued throughout Saturday and Sunday, the Russians gaining ground. TheaasaultonFort Tjadjalitz, which commands all the other fortifications of Nicsics, has been countermanded and operations have been entirely an a oeoded. Arrangements have been made at Madrid with the promoters of the lust Cuban lo-in for an advance ol $25,000,000 for the expenses of the next campaign. Kobler, who was arrested on the steamer G titer t for vife murder at Boston, Mass., has appeared before the Plymouth magistrates and pleaded innocence. Ho wa remanded re-manded lo await the (jjclrtdiliuu papers. An Austrian conference of Ihe ministry, to be presided over by the ' emperor will probably deside as to the I mobilization of two army corps, not lor the purpose of deviating from Austria's neutrality but to protect the : interests ol tho empire. An important engagement was fought on Sunday near Ruatchuk between tho cznro witch and Ahmed 1 Eyoob Pasha. The Tuikish corps is reported defeated with a loss ol thirty guns, ten (standards and 5,000 to 8,000 prisoners. The Turkish army waa completely routed. |