The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-04
FOREIGN AFFA1Rs.

THE WEATHER IN. ENGLAND AND ELSEWHERE.
LONDON, September 2.-The westher con-
tinues unsettled and unseasonably cold, as
! it has been throughout Great Britain for ten
days past. There has been an Unusual
quantity OF rain, accompanied in many Sec
tions by violent winds. Similar reports
have been received from France, Germany,
and Switzerland
FINANCIAL DISASTERS AND DEPRESSION IN
TRADE IN EUROPE.
LONDON, September Besides tine fall
ures sinsthe Cleveland iron trade there has
been an unusual number of smaller bank
ruptcies during the week In trades md
manufactures, the liabilities ranging from
$40, 900 to iss40, ,00e. 2... ...' .5ls
Adyices from Dundee report great de-
preston in trade there. "A fortnight ago
one Of the largest works In that town closed,
throwing nearly 5000 persons out OF eni-
'ployment. Yesterday Ritchie 4 Simpson
announced that one Of their mills will be
closed Thursday next, and intimated the
possibility of having to dispense with all OF
their weavers there and between two and
three hundred in another mill &c the same
time.
The Manchester Guardian to-day reports
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sugar merchants, OF Moscow. Russis, with
large liabilities, OF which $4,000 fall on
England
The heavy failures in the North have
caused the neighboring banks to provide
against possible contingencies by drawing
large sums from London to strengthen their
cash balances. Recent large buyers OF com
soils are understood to have been realizing
to secure profit and transfer their capital
to securities less likely to suffer q severe TALL
in the event Of complications In the East.
The settlement on the Paris Bourse has
been absorbing the floating supply OF money
there, and, besides, there Is the usual demand
which proceeds maturity Of bills on the 4th
Of each month. ..t
These circumstances occasioned fall in
consols and hardened the money market the
latter part Of the week.
R0ssI, THE TRAGEDIAN.
PARIS, September 2.-Rossi, the Italian
tragedian, postpones his visit to America
until September, 1877.
HoNoEs TO THE NEW soLTAN.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, September 2.-The en-
tire city was illuminated last night in honor
Of the new Sultan. The Turkish and for
eign shipping in the harbor are decorated
with bunting, &c.
The Eastern Wnr.
LONDON, September 2.-The Standards
Belgrade special says there has been no
fighting around Alexanitz since August
26th. All the Turkish ministers at Con-
stantinople remain in Office under. the new
Sultan.
The representatives OF all Powers have
received identical instructions, and will to-
day or Monday take official steps to secure
an armistice.
The subscriptions to the new Seryian loan
at St. Pctersburgh are eagerly taken.
BELGRADE, September 2.-The SerVian
Prime Minister says the state OF affairs is
not changed.
seryia will not be able to accept the rigor-
Gus conditions that the Porte is inclined to
impose. The change Of sorereigns might
retard negotiations and change the condi-
tions Of peace.
The heavy mortality among the Russian
officers at the front gives rise to the painful
rumor that all did not meet with death at
the hands OF the Turks.
LONDON, September 2.-From conflicting
statements contained in the Seryian official
bulletins and dispatches from special cor
respondents it seems probable that the
Turks have voluntarily abandoned the right
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tions on the left bank. The battles reported
from Belgrade are either wholly fabricated
or grossly exaggerated.
A Reuter- dispatch from Ragusa says
representative OF the British embassy at
Vienna, accompanied by the Turkish con-
sui here, have been to Maukhatar PashRs
camp at Trebinie, carrying him dispatches
from Sir Andrew Buchanan. British ambas-
sador at Vienna.
Special dispatches from Belgrade 10 the
Times broadly intimate that the Seryian
soldiers shoot their Russian officers. This
Is hinted at In q previous dispatch from the
same correspondent. @
/ A special correspondent OF the Daily
Telegrdpk, at Belgrade, says fresh arrivals
of Russian reinforcements continue TO ar
rive there and passing to the front. There
are already more than 1900 Russians at the
front, mostly officers. The Russian officers
declare they have saved seryia. tits stated
they drive the Servlans to battle when
necessary, as VIGOROUSLY 1t often Is, with
pistol and sabre, and shoot down the lag
CARDS remorselessly.