Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-08-15
FOREIGN News.

ACCUuutS ilOu TUG ldLuluC oloV1io'o Va AooiN
report that the famine vii! rage with increased
intensity for at least six months longer. La
order to afford facilities for carrying food the
Madras government has directed the discontln
uance of several passenger traus daily on the
railways At public meeting held 10 Calcutta
to consider the situation, it was stated that fully
eighteen millions Of people will have to be pro
vided with subsistence, and it was determined
to make appeals for aid to the various cite:
and towns throughout the Uoited Kingdom.
The Paris Mouiteur says that The question
of state Of siege has pever been discussed OF
| raised 10 the Cabinet; that there has never eX
listed, either on this or any other question. any
division within the Cabinet; that the most per
| feet understanding has always existed betWeet
the Duke de Brogie and NJ. FourtoD; thai
| neither the German nor any other governmen
has made any representations on the presence
of the Duke de Broelie at the head Of the Cab
met; and that the President of the Republic II
firmly resolved to retain the Ministry of the l6tt
of May until the election. 1t is believed thai
the Jouroal Official will repeat these conlradic
tons tonight, aud that the Duke de Broglie'!
acting for N. Fourton during his absence il
| an arrangement evidently designed as an ad
dtional proof of harmony between them. There
| is, nevertheless widespread belief that NJ
Fourton advocates the proclamation OF state
| of siege, and the papers which sound BIZ
praises unquestiouably advocate it.
Dispatches from Pot Au Prince say grea
excitement has prevailed during the last tort
| light The enemies of the government raised
| rebellion and the city was declared to be 10
| state Of siege Troops we're dispatched under
| command of the Secretary of War to suppress
the riots. TIE rioters were completely dis
| persed, five Of their number having been shot
The country people at St. Mark and Cape Hay
tien also took up arms, but this movement va:
considered uuimportant. The government ex
pected to conquer the rebellion easily.
| The Jamaica telegram reporting oonhagra
ton at Port au Prince was false. The people
arc tired Of revolutions.
An abundant coffee crop is expected 10 bt
gathered.
President Canal requested permission Of ths
Chambers to visit Europe for the purpose O
curing dangerous throat disease, but they re
fused TO grant leave. Canal has now beer
CURED by his physician from Jamaica, and i
Improving
Gen. Crespe. chief of the movement in favo
of ex. President Gonzales. was arrested and i'm
prsoned. This was the Gonzales movement
The partisans Of General Luperon have nov
commenced rising 90 the Northwestern
| frontier.
The general impression is that Presiden
Baez vii! be unable to much longer resist these
constant attacks. 1t is reported from Caraco
sas that plot was discovered to assassinat
President Alcantara. The chief Of the plo
| V,non,;, D,lonr mbo hod hooy
arrested and imprisoned.
The London Times Bellary correspondent
writing under date of July 18th, describes thu
awful effects of the famine in southern India
A few months ago. he says, the working gang
contained fair proportion of stalwart men ant
women, on whom the famine at that time hat
made no visible mark, but this is 20 longer tht
case. The great bulk of the people are nov
emaciated. Their ribs are sticking out in pain
| full prominence and their skins covered with {
dirty looking disquamation Of cutiole described
10 the Irish famine of 1916 by DR.. Donovan
as a peculiar famine eruption. Ii we look q
the thousands OF people collected on the relic
works these famine marks are Of almost uDlver
sal prevalence. The superintendent OF the relic
operations 10 Adoni reports that journey owe
one of his roads rcsembled the path of erea
battle in the numbers OF dead and dying
| If the people had been smitten BY local out
break of cholera 10 ordinary they would have
| fed from the works and never returned, but 81
severe is the pressure for food that none oOulC
afford TO leave the works and lose their pay to-
single day.
India Council !bills were allotted TO- day a
| "a per Rupee decline. i
1t is reported that the King Of Holland To-
| tends to abdioate.
William Lougman, the we'll known London
publisher. who had been seriously i'll for some
time past. is dead.