Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-31
Foreign News.


Accounts from lrdia speak Ct grea. and in.
creasing apprehension regarding the prospects
Of the cops 10 several Of the larger provinces.
The raiofall has been very scaoty in mary OF
them, aoL tic eoomest apticipations are In.
duIged il. Rice 10 Calcutta is already rising
rapidly 10 price, aad the calamity threatens to
he Of au cXtert which will tex the resources OF
The country to the utmost. Fannie is already
prtvailug IL wauy districts, aod the late
drought he: killed, Tot oniy the growing crops,
tut the auln.is employed 10 tiIliug the land.
TIE L11i1u Tlu=s says the stagna.lon 10 the
dScoua; bu-laes5 is ALMOST without precedent,
and lis cortluu,nct must prove the reverse CT
y t0:csomc 10 uaDy ways. lis working Is seen
10 The eace with which large stocks of imported
uateIia! are held agsicst weak market, but
mere c0csricuously in the anomalous position
Of The stock markets. Nest of them are now,
ard all likely 10 remain, lmmoderaey high
tor 40 other reason than that cheaD money
makes ii casy to hold weak securities" Find
log 10 employment 10 movlcg products and
pf0molDq Industries, money stdgGates ao0u
TIE Stock Exchange. Ia this it sees dagger ot
collapse aud panic, just perhaps, When s'gos CT
trade recovery begin to show themselves. CT
when money !roG any cause shall become
Geaier.
TX presi!sut GRAFT lief; Geneva yesterday.
BE gees over the SlmpIon to the upper lGa
ian a1l Ragajz. where he Will meet Mir. ". j.
Crauer, Amer,ca0 Minister tc Denmark, aod
make d stay for d cure. From Raga'z re goe:
t. CorcHhsgap, !heoce to Sweden and NurWay
aud re!uTGs to Berlin TO witness The autunu
ula % leres, end at he cGd Of October Intends
10 vi>l: Paris. H. will pass the winter partly
10 Paris aud partly 10 ltaiy, and will revisit
SyIiZ riaud later should GO unforeseen circum
starcr prevent.
rhc reported defeat of Su!ienau Pasha i:
DOW believed to be wholly false or greatly ex
agRcrattd.
40 e0easenent near Rustchuk Sunday re
suited 10 tic defeat OF the Turks, with heavy
loss.
klDe Amadeus, WAC was recently throw
!rom carriage and seriously icjured. continue:
improving.
The British House OF Commons will probs
bly, uol be prorogued uo:ll the the 18TH OIL
August.
N. B,aDc proprietor of the Monaco gambling
tables dlcd 10 Swiz.rlapd FROM Asthma.
Her Msj.stys ships FIamlugo aud Condo
which 20 70 the Diuuoe 10 protect the BRITISH
Interests acd assert Great Brltau's treaty righ
10 maintain two gunbJa's 90 the Danube vii
he scco:D panied to the Black S.a ~ he iro,
cIads Shaunou aud Aglscaurt 10 support then
should their passage be opposed.
\ correspondent at Shuu,la says :--"l never
saw such rishtlul spectacle as nIvt my gaz;
wn.n the wounded were brought to he lut!'
railway station 90 the ShuuIa and Rustchul
li:e. lie men bad beer driven for seven hours
il carts wirhcu: spEiogs, uod'7 a bot sue, a..C
their cries ana grosnS, cc,,loDed by the suf!r
ing they endured from their undreIsed Wounds
vas sooIcthiDg never 10 be forgotten. Ihey
were hurried IF il q train 10 the hospital q
Farna. AL the woun1eii were Turks.
M-hzm"t All inteaj. to attack the Russian
10 the rear By way o! TirDova. WEllber he be
gan moving the uIaio body OF his Groops 90 Sat
urday. Report places be streo&th Of his army
st 6tiv or sixty THOUSAND meu. The counter
attack will be watched with grea; intere@I, bu
j. mag give the Russians The opportunity .or tht
great ta:'a hat hey claim to be Sc. klcg.
Sanue! Warren, the EG1iis:i au:h.r, i:
dead.
Suieimon Pasiia's corps has effected JUICE
ii with Raui Pasba Dear ell Ssghra, where
40 engage wcnt Is proceeding.
LONDON, Jolly 81 -Ad9ces have been re
c"iv.t oi great defeat Of Achuet Eyout
Pasra.
Sulsiuao Pasha aod Raoi Pasha are ct Yeo
Sagtra still, and the ral'w.y between Adrian
op!e aud PGi!oppopo'I5 has been restored. Sc
the Report of the d9feat O. Su@imaa Pasha or
Friday wss untrue.