Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-10-15
Foreign News

Foreign News.
\ dispatch from London says:-ileuga, BAL
four g. Co.'S liabilities arc low estimated at
over 500 900. Six Of the largest firms OF
Blackburn are creditors, and lcss from S2o, 0UV
to 100000 each. Some other firms have given
notice of stoppage Of their wcEksln consequence
Of the faiare of orders. T. D. Flndlay i Co.,
East Iodia merchants. OF Glasgow, have S1s
pended. Their liabilities arc 81 ,Q00.O 600.
A Paris correspondent states that the qucs.
ton of the Influence Of France and Eng:nd re
spectively in Egypt has been settled BY an
arrangement giving NJ. Bignire the adninIstra'
ton of the railways aud ports, while MI. Rivers
Wilson takes the Ministry of Finance. Inc
Egyptian government is expected to ral!y this
arrangement to day.
A Bombay correspondent says it is reported
from Cabul that the Ameer's SOD, lakooh
| Khan, who was recently released, has been
again i'm Imprisoned for sta5biCg member Of his
escort
The Porte will not submit to the Powers the
| fual treaty which is cow bcirg negotiated with
Russia. The Lazis 10 Constaptuopc have pc.
titioned Prince LabanctI, the Russian Ambss
sador, for passports enabling them to return to
Batoum. Count Z:chy. the Aust!iao Ambas
sador, has requested il friendly nst@er. 30
exclamation Of the concentration or lu; H!sh
troops at kossova.
A Constantioopl" Gi<ue y s.cs The comple-
slun of the def nslv, /! . Ist= nloople has
teeu authorized. Sjl.. u d. ,rihcs Gcar Bag.
dad have revol'ed 90! c,p'ureL tie tive OF
| Dauau. The Turkish au E0r;teS kaVo tele
grapbed, urgeu,ly askiog for rclnI1tc:u"of-.
a VieDOa dispatch Ss}s new complications
have ariscu. Il is repurttd that Montrnepru
! ADD R0uDsyia refuse TO restore their Turkish
pri,vGel until they receive tbtlr allotted teri
tory aud monetary compensation rcsbec'lVEly.
DI. Smith has arrived at Bucharest with al
autograph letter from Pcesidcnt Hayes, rscog.
niziog the independence OF Rcum AHA, aud ex
pressing hope for her prosperity aud tor It.:
maintenance of cordial relaligr9.
A Pcra correspondent is informed that Rus
sia and the Porte have arrived at under
standing for the joint occupation OF the Rhodopc
district.
| A dispatch from Vienna states that the stop.
page of the Russians in the nelshborhood oil
| Constantinope seems to have caused some stir
among the Cabinets, though core OF them have
made aoy direct representations.
The Porte is adopting al apologize tone 70
| Austria relative to its recent notc.
A meeting in favor of the Franco American
treaty OF commerce was held at Rheims yesler.
| day. Resolutions we're passed advocating the
assimilation of American import duly 90 mixad
fabrics to that en- WOODEN fabrics and the su5Stl'
| tuition Of specific for ad 7alorem duties.
Eighty thousand troops are to be Withdrawn
| from Bosnia, and the Remaining divisions non
numbering one hundred thousand men, are to
be reduced to peacs footing by the dismissal
of tho reserve. It is confidently reported that
| Baron Won Prettis Cagnodo, the Austrian Min
ister of Finance, has been entrusted with the
formation OF a new Ciseithan Cabicet.
The German Reichstag has thrown out clause
6 IF the Socialist bill, prohibiting Socialist
writings; clauses 7, S. 9 aod 10 were passed
over, and clauses /. -. Is and IL were
adopted.
Plaoards Of an i1cendiary character continue
to be posted in the streets Of Petersburg, not.
withstaudiDg that policemen and military pa
trolls arc constantly securing the streets. Pam
phlets OF the same character are secretly
| distributed and threatening letters arc ad'
| dressed to the Ministers and leading members
| Of the Government.
| The details of the negro Instruction at ST..
Croix show that sixty seven sugar estates were
burned, leaving only Line Of any importance
unipiured The cause Of the revolt was short
payment of wages and the rcGu,aI Of the author.
| tiles to give passports to the ncero laborera.
The island was before declining 10 prosperity.
but is now entirely ruined. The merchants CT
| St. Thomas have lost heavily By the ravagcs OF
the Insurgents.
President Diaz. OF Mexico, has decrced the
closing Of the frontier custom houses at Mer
and Camargo, in the State of Tamaulpas. aod
section OF the guards ID established 10 each OF
these points to prevent smuggling Ct foreign
goods into or from tho United States The
IONA libre remains Az heretofore, aud can be
abolished only by law Of the Mexican Congress-.
What il now being provided against II the
| abuse which the z1na huA created.
| Nothing has been heard OF the schooner
Jordan L. NJ Oft since hhn sailed from st. Thomas
for Curacoa with * Prchidcnt GonzaIrh hud
twenty two of hin followers, aud it IN cnrcd that
| they have all persisted in the Hevoro hurricane
which swept The south oNagL ui. San Domingo
Oh the Sd Of September.
10 Peru arrests have been made OF one or
two prominent individuulp, aud their coLllnc,
ment 10 ais where polite, prisoners are usually
kept has followed. The charge sgainst them
is completely 10 revolutionary plots. There 10
no rublic excitement and no difficulty is apprc'
| hended, as the Two great political parties are
too we'll balanced to render it likely that either
ooe or the other will seek to preclpitate COZ
hict. All political excitement 10 the south OF
the republic has disappeared.
10 Chill gold Ia paying quantities has been
discovered 10 the sou bern part or the republic
and already locations have been made by E,g
lish capitalists Of Valparaiso. The gold exists
in plaocrs, which arr said % b. very extensive
There is abundant rr "c'a 10 hydraulics to
be employed 10 coDdncrlt ib.. work IT washing
out the deposits, AID exIrrsiv* arrangements
for oaualiz .lion, build" q lne,, g., 10 eaavey
the water to tho m,lcs, have already been
commenced.
| LATER.
LONDON, OF. l5.-It is amour ced 10 an
otfio.al fvru that Sir Michael Hicks Beach,
Colonial Secretary, and Mr.. William Henry
Smith, First Lord of the Admiralty, have re-
uouuced their projected visit CT Inspection to
Cyprus and Malta owing to the unsettled s'a'u
of affairs 10 the East.
A Vienna dispatch to tho Manchester Guar
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