Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-12-18
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A Bucharest dispatch say$: tic report OF
The suicide Of Osnao Ps:ha IS false, aud there
is 10 foundation Of the runur OF MS death lr1a
al, y cause.
The Rus>i,ns alter cceupyiu2 Ei"na, pushed
forward their troops TO Bstr1va sunday.
1t is generally believed at ConsfaotnopIc
thst the Porte; appeal for the mediation or the
Powers will have no result Mr. Llyard. the
British Ambassador has informed the turkish
Government that EoglaDd Will continue TO 3D.
serve neutrality.
A Vienna correspondent teegraphS as fol-
lows: "Turkey's first pacific effort may be re
eardcd as failure. Germany limited that
treating directly with Russia would be the
shortest way Of coming TO an understanding. 1t
s,clDa that when the note was first mentioned
the Austrian Government replied that it could
not hold out any hope ol success oil mcdalon
on such basis.
A Belgrade correspondent says it is reported
that General HarvatOvich has taken Adllr, near
Widdio.
General Potrovic, the Montencgrin comuan
der, has been summoned to take command ota
Monte0cgrin force to be sent to Novi Bazlr to
effect junction with the Serviaus.
Col. Wellcsly, British military attache. says
that O3man Pasha had less than 50 600 men at
PIevGa, ADD in his sortic lost 6 900 killed alone
The wounded must have been 5000 more.
q telegram from St. Petersburg, which is Of!
q semi official character, says: "rhe statement
that Germany aud Austria have refused Tur-
keys request for mediation has produced a
favorable impression here. The universal sen
timent is that after the great sacrifices of Rus.
sia, peace on the conditions foreshadowed in
the Portc's circular would be iusory and that
the questions raised by this sangoinary war
must be definitely aud extensively solved"
France has replied to the Turkish note. The
terms of her reply are almost identical with
those Of ItaIy'a.
1t is said tho Porte has dccrccl to grant a
fuller autonomy to Creto to alay the discomfort
10 that island
A correspondent ct Bucharest says it is
known to many that the Car was privately
warned last August that if Russia entered on u
second campaign it would be impossible to re
strain Eogland from hostile acton. The Cor
respondent does cot believe there will be q
second campaign. Influential Russians Goa
slider the present moment highly favorable
for direct negotiations between Russia aud
Turkey
The London papers publish an official con-
tradictiun OF the report Of Oman Pasha' 5
death.
CONsTANTINoPLE, Dec. lS.-Erroneous TO-
tcrprctations having been givcu to the circular
OF the Porte inviting mediation, it is officially
explained that Turkey does not approach the
Powers as a varqulshed State since she sill
has two lines Of dI.nce which the Government
believes she would be able to hold. The Porte,
by its circular, desires to intimate its willing
ness TO consider the proposals made by the
Constantinople conference. As the War began
owing 10 Turkeys refusal to adhere to those
proposals, the Porte thinks it might be deter
mined now on that basis
The London Times Constantincple dispatch
says: There is great disIavor here on account
of Sarvia's treachery, which EnpIish influence
n favor of Servia rendered possible. There is
a strong impression here that Eogland will op
pose the opening Of the DArdanelles, which
Turkey ard probably all the other Powers arc
prepared to couc,de. If the Tur Ks refuse the
concession ii will be because of the conviction
that England will help them 10 their ex.
tremiIy."