Show FOREIGN NOTES valon july 23 A constantinople dispatch says the porte discovered through one of ita agents abroad that england confidentially bounded the powers on the subject of the demonstration but the intelligence caused no alarm areddia pasha minister of foreign affairs ia reported to have said that any demonstration of the kind would simply have the effect of inciting the albanians to energetic action and the naval authorities opine that tho hostile fleet could not inflict much real ir jury so long as alie dardanelles Darda nelles aid properly protected by forts and tori dedoes the sultan is guided chiefly by fear of immediate consequences efad ins fears together with all other influences around him tend to make him offer dogged resistance the newspapers aein to make no ques tion that queen victoria a letter to the sultan but judging from analysis of the letter published by the paris rappel it appear highly improbable that it was either written or authorized by the queen ID holt ST July 28 A pape gives the particulars of the sky prison one of the chief establishments of its kind the inspector states that he found in the female wards women of whom thirty three were ill many enceinte ence inte in alio male ward there were men of whom were ill their linen was filthy and ventilation wholly inadequate it is estimated that each man had but three fifths of the quantity of air necessary to support an adult person the prison is never repaired and dirt and disorder reign supreme in spite of the short term of one year to which the inmates are subjected the death rate is nearly 25 per cent XIII tarr spirit SAN ANTONIO july 28 at mon acrey mexico soldiers undertook to liberate an officer arrested for drunkenness in the fight with the police a captain and major were killed and fourteen soldiers killed or wounded the cortti aply july 28 the fortes reply to the collective note has been submitted to the sultan for his approval and will abo communicated to the ambassadors forthwith it ia believed the tenor of the reply as originally adopted hythe ministers has been modified |