Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-03-04
Foreign News.

LONDON, March 4.-The Hour understands
that writ returnable in the Court Of Queen
Bench was served upon Minister Schenck yes.
terday at the instance of the Emma Company.
The writ was served as Gen. Schenck was en-
tcring the train at Euston Station. General
| Sobenck referred the server to Lord Derby.
| A special from Gibraltar to the Daily News
states that the prize crew Of the Guarda Costa,
overpowered and captured by the crew of an
English trading vessel which they attempted
| to SEIZE have been committed, and will be
tried for piracy.
ATHENS, March 4.--The Queen Of Greece
has been delivered Of daughter.
PARIS, March An official notice issued
TO- day Informs senator's elect that there will be
preparatory meeting onekhc 7th inst. to form
provisional bureau to fix upon az order of
the day for the first sitting of the Senate. The
deputies have also received similar notice.
MADRID, March ALI Carlists submitting
prior to the 18Th inst are to be granted am-
Desty.
Il is stated that the Vatican will not make a
formal protest against the article of the new
Constitution concerning religious federation.
LONDON, March The Tunes, this morn
Ing, says edtoralv of the Belknap scandal !:
"rhis event is the more grave because its con.
6ruatory OF the suspicion which has long pre-
vailed among the American people. Even the
Europeans caunot but be struck with the alter
ed tones 10 which Americans speak, if not of
their institutions, at least of the men who have
the present direction of them
The News, in audirg to the same SUBJECT,
says: The American political life seems to be
10 anything but healthy condition. 1t refers
| to the whiskey fraud trials, the Emma Mine
| scandal and the dowbfall of Belknap, and says
that these scandals lift the veil from class of
society, which it was hitherto pretty generally
supposed had, as yet, escaped the impurities
of the social strata below, and they lead one to
| fear that some Of the worst vices of municipal
government may be percolating into the Fed
eral administration.
The Telegraph says: Disclosures after dis
closures, charges after charges, varying in de-
grees Of truth, but with the same ugly aud un-
| toward character, have lately darkened the
commercial, religious, judicial and admins ira
tive institutions Of the United States. Some
| have proved false, others true, and more await
| evidence. But the general effect beyond
denial has been to bring blush Of shame and
anxiety into the face of all honest Americans
and to make countless fren IS of the Republic
10 this country silent and sorrowful when it's
enemies rejoce over these recurring relations.
The Standard says: Happily the countries
are few where so gross an abuse of trust would
be possible.
LIVERPOOL, March 4-Miuster Schenck
sailed tor New York to-day by the steamer
Abyssinia.
LONDON, March The Evening Stand
ards financial article says: At this hour lone
o'clock semi-papic prevails at the Stock Tx
change 10 home railways, which have been
forced for sale at very important fall. Many
sales are stated to be on banking account, and
it is assumed that the extent of the tall in
some stocks will lead to difficulties at the next
fortnighly settlement.
BoULoGNE, March 4.-Don Carlos started
at halt last two o'clock this afternoon for L'n-
don, where he will be due this evening at 6:35.