Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-06
Foreign News.


Foreign News.
AT meeting OF The Lord Pfo7osl'5 Commit
tee of the Edinburgh Town Couuc!l II waa
unanimously resolved to recommend to the
Council TO offer General Grant the freedom OF
the city on the occasion Of his visit il August
or September next.
| General Grant, in the course Of his reply to
ths address at Folkstone, yesterday, said i
thank you for what has been said 10 honor OF
nv own great country, 1t has been feeling
| of nine for many years standing that the
United States and Great Bljtain should be the
very best friends. You have kindly alluded 10
! nv efforts as Executive ct The \ Cited States,
| 20 settle the questions that were existing be
| tween the two countries, aud which were halle
at any time to create disturbance. Fortunately,
however, these difficulties were settled III a
| manner creditable to both nations. There was
30 desire on my part, aud. am sure, there
was none 90 the part of the thinking people Of
the United States, that Eog!aDd should BE- hu
inflated in any sense and there was certainly
determination on cur part that We should not
be Inundated, but We wanted settlement That
should be honorable to both nations. That was
my desire, at all events.
| A London special says the address presented
to Gen. Grant at FOikestone yesterday recicd
the idea of houoriug the General for his deeds
i n the battlefield and concluded 10y expressing
the wish that be have third term as lfe->
dent Of the Unitel States ana advancing the
opinion that be would. Ia his reply the cA.
Presideutignorcd this.
La the Spanish Congress. yesterday, Senior
| ilot al al tt,In
TO the arrest and expulsion Of Senior I1ra and
his associates from France Hc contrAstad their
treat meut With the hp5ptablc reception accord
ed Don Carlos and his partisans, aud declared
that the principles of internaioDa law had been
Ignored. Tho Minister Of Foreign Affairs re-
piled that Senior Gorilla was conspising against
the Spanish monarchy and vas connected with
the International Society. The French authori-
ties, in the exercise OF their rights, had uoDsid.
cred that Senior Gorilla and his aslocatcs might
become the cause OF political Disturbance
The Spanish authorities are strictly watching
the French frontier. They have disc0verca !
considerable store of arms at Vera, 10 Navarro.
Accounts from the Bombay famine districts
are daily growing better. Rain is plentiful, and
the sowing of crops l.. beginning. The position
10 Madras is still very grave. Over 4 million
persons are on the relief works or gratuitousIy
fed.
Referring to the statement that tho Ports.
mouth, n. H., Light Artillery had accepted
the invitation Of the Mayor Of Portsmouth,
EuglaDd, to visit the city and partak2 Of It's
hospitalitcs, the Mayor Of Portsmouth says
that he knows nothing al ut any invitation to
the Portsmouth, N. H., Volunteers.
Ia London, yesterday, Mr.. Kruger and other
delegates bearing protest from the late Gov
Il, II ~, -
British annexation had an Interview with Lord
Carnarvou. The latter Informed them that it
was impossible to reverse the decree Of anncxa.
ton, but he would hear any representations
from them relative TO the administration Of the
province with pleasure
The British Cabinet has Informed the rari.
Gus Cabinet officers that the feet was seat 10
Bcsika Bay for the protection OF British inter.
ests and the Christians 10 Turkey.
In the Pan-Presbyterian Council in L iln.
burgh, yesterday, paper on pulpit eoquence
was read. After discussion, n which Rev.
Mr.. Willis, Of Toronto, and various Scotch di
vines participated motion was adopted that
simple preaching of the Bible vas the true
work of the ministry. La the evening addrcsSc:
we're delivered on home missions 10 the Unite1
States and other auds by Rev. Mr.. Vaudyko,
of Brooklyn, Rev. Cyrus Dickson, and Others.
a private dispatch from Rome states that
the i'll health of the Pope is aggravated. Dropsy
has Set 10. An operation Was attempted, but
the weakness Of the patcnt prevented its sue
cess.
A Paris telegram says that the French croys
are reported to be generally good, especially ID
Central France, around Bloi5 where the bar
vest promises to be better than for many year;
past
The municipality of Paris, yesterday, formal
" resolved to petition for law permitting ere
nation.
Mr.. Bebj Rush, whose death from heart
disease in an omnibus on Regent street, Lon
don, was cabIed last plight, was PhiladeIphan
LOUISIANA State Senator }. Henry Burch
was arrested Tuesday evening, uoder writ o.
the Disric. Court Of East Baton Rouge
charged with the embczzlemeut Of school lunds
aud was yesterday remaDicd to the cus:olg Of
the Sheriff of East Baton Rouge Burch
sought release uoder writ Of habcas corpus,
but failed.
Ia the Superior Criminal Court Of New Or
leans, yesterday, Attorney General Ogden and
the District Attorney filed information against
j. Madison Wells, Il. Z. Anderson, Louis NJ.
kenner and l.. 6. CassauaVe, charging them,
under section S33 Of the Revised Statutes, wilh
utterog and publishing as true certain altered,
false, forged aud couaterteited records lmmc-
datey after fling Information caplasys we're
issued for the arrest OF the parties named.
Wells and kenner surrendered themselV TO
the Sheriff. The information is very lengthy,
and charges them with having, on the 4th of
December 1876 falsely and teIonlously uttered
and published as true the altered. forged and
counterfeited election returns for Presidential
Electors from the parish Of Vernon, at the
election of November last. By adding Us votes
to each of the Hayes Electors and deiuctIug
39j from each of the Tilden Electors. Bail has
been fixed at $1,000 cash, and has tc:n fur.
uished by Wells and kenner. Anderson aud
Cassanavo will surrender themselves aud FUR
nish the required bonds.
BANKRuPrS. The following sau4og rule
has been promulgated BY Judge Hughes 10 the
U. S. District Court for the Eastern district Of
Virginia:
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