Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-08
Foreign News.

BUCHAREST, August s In the Chamber OF
Drpuncs to. day. the Prime Minister explained
tho foreign policy of the new Cabinet He
stated that it's policy would be one of strict Dcu.
traiiry, maiutniulag, however. the pubic Sc
curity and vigantIy guarding the natloual
frontiers.
LONDON, August ---Thc Phi Mail Gazette S
Berlin dispatch has the foDwiGg: The Ma
tioual itung says Scrvia dcSpairing Of n sue
ccssul issue of the war has requested the pow
ers to mediate 10 favor Of peace. The SerVlan
ATTEMPT to raise war loan 10 Russia has
proved to be failure.
LONDON, August S.--A collision occurred
last plight Oh the Somerset u Dorset hallway
near Radstack, between London train apd an
empty excursion traiD Twelve persons were
killed and thirty undcd.
LONDON, August S.-Therc was an animated
debate IN the House of Commons lass hight 90
the Bulgarian atrocities. The Times to-day 10
a leading article says "Oocn more the massa-
ores in Bulgaria have occurred the attention OF
the House OF Coluruons. In few days the
members will have separated; but Tor this we
might EXPECT a series of debates IN comparison
With which that of last night would be gentle
ADD subdued 10 tone, for there can be 90 little
doubt that we are on the verge of revelations
SURPRISING any thing the imagination of civil
IL ID man could have conceived. The barbara
ties Of the Tartar corquerors and the wild and
seuseless dcstlu ctou Of human life which the
modcru students CT history have been disposed
10 look upon as fabulous find parallel 10 the
deeds perpcIratcl withlu the last lew weeks at
few days journey from our own shores. ln
our owu age we must turn to Ashantee or Da-
honey for ary thing similar to the ghas;ly
spectacle now presented by a Turkish province.
According to the testimony of which there
can he 10 reasonable d)ubt, the helpless IN
iabtauts Of the district about Tartarbszarijik
aud Phllippoll, men, women and children, have
becc slaughtercd BY thousands, and their towns
aud villages utterly destroyed. Ii seems likely
that those whom humane Incredibly has led to
suppose that the accounts we're exaggerated,
Will have to abandon that superstition. The tes-
tlmony of the witnesses AMI the admissions OF
a member of the British mbassy, charged with
the investigation of these massacrcS, give rea-
son to believe that tn, re has been nothing less
than general massacre of the population,
against which the Turkish government let loose
lis bands. Furthermore there is the strongest
evidence that these atrocities haze not been the
work wholly. or even principally, of the Clrcas
sian settler but of the klsh irregular troops
commanded by duly appointed officers, sent
into the couutry * res>y to strike terror lDto
the population. What passed last night 10 the
House of Cowmons shows the astonlsbme0l
and horror these deeds have aroused. Ar,
George Anderson, Liberal member from Glas'
Cow, introduced the subject, and one member
after another rose to express his indignation
and 10 protest against the attitude OF lnditfcr
enoe 90 the part Of the British government, and
still more against the tone of apology which
has been detected 10 the official cou uu