Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-04-30
Lord Salisbury will relax his present strictly
,onot;v, otti,u1n

negative attitude.
The Tunes V,cnua correspondent s3ys IL Is
no secret hat tie clief CHI Ct Of Tic lc.a CT
the Grand Duke L. /, to !cs>:I a;d Ill
miuish ,hc d .uycr # c'sior. ne r'rpAcad
at mass il C2t>;anlinorla aii The
praud review al SUE S:ct"Lu w"re colire!y Gu;
70 hr III i.tvo Of Tie Grad Duke Nicholas,
and we're co9n,el mandCd f;om 81. PttsrstItg.
As The sGvatce TO ssh S!claCo sag also at
tributed 10 the Gracd Duke, it may well be
believed that his recall Is actusted partly by
the vi h TO spare him motlilcauon III the
event OF withdrawal helog ultimately decided
upon. Az,
TIE sauc correspondent; says: "Ine run0r
relative 10 decision on The part OF Austria to
cc,upy Bcs ia ard 11rm corps OF oohelVa
ii,n 10 Transy lgania, &c., are premature, al
though probabilities of slch measures have
doubtless Increased.
A Reuter- telegram from Bombay announces
tba! the first detachment Of troops has sailed,
and that number Of fresh regiments arc walt
ing, The expedition takes stores Io7 hVe
months. =,
LONDON, April 30.-Thc Manchester Guar
dams Vienna correspondent tclcgrapEs 10 that
Journal az ol!ows:-"Tho Hamburg Amer :an
Packet Compaoy's steamship Gin bra which
has been chartered by the Russan Go7ernmont
has taken q contingent Of forty cttlclrs anu ave
hundred seamen and started TO cruise 90 the
Chinese aud Japanese coasts.
LONDON, April 60 The first cGDtlngtnt 10
be dispatched from this country TO Mails will
number s, 00Omcn and two batteries OF artiIcry'
all Of which arc under orders for cmhalkalicn.
The torpedo service promises oil that Is desired.
Messrs John }. Thornycroit Il Co., viii soon
have ready five or six Of twenty torpedo iaubch
es thew arc building and other firms arc usakius
extraordinary efforts towards The CONF, 'etlon OF
Government orders for launches: Iortland
will be the rendezvous Tor the SLIPS no% pre-,
paripg to form the fleet Tor the Channel and
North Sea- The cJast guard aud !urfet ships
will proceed there as soon as they are ready.
Considerable excitement seems to have Dten
produoed 10 Berlin by the announcement that
an Eoplish feet is being fitted out for eventual
operations 10 the Baltic. The idea expressed
10 the Berlin letter princd 10 the Vienna Mon,
tags Revue that it is hardly 10 be EXPECTED
that foreign fleet would make its appearance
in the Baltic against the wish OF Germany, IS
declared to bs an eccentric thing which IS re-
undated by the German Government IN view
Of the present critical state of affairs.
The liverpool customs authorities Gle under
stood 10 have been instructed toeXerciso sp-cia
yigilance in the examination OF export cirgoes
to prevent contreband Of war leaving th2 couu
try. ,u .,
A Bombay dispatch ys:-"The BcgrIm Of
Bhopaul has offered his whole available i0tcc
for service abroad.
Some consolation Tor the prolongaliou Of the
efforts to preserve peace IS found 10 the tact
that the point st issue is becoming gradually
more distinct. That point IS whether NuSsla
will recognize that the rights of the Great Tow.
era as established by the treaties OF 1896 and
1871 take precedence Of the claims oil The treaty
of San Stetano. -,
1t is reported that Turkey refuses % fulfil
the stipuaions Of the treaty OF San Steiaot
and that it has been decided that the Russian:
will occupy Copssantiuoplc imm ediatcly.
The ice having broken up 10 the Neva, the
Russian iron clads will leeva Cronstadt between
the 1st and 10th of May.
Prince Gortscha koff' illness IS OF the grsVest
character. The gou! is ascending his lower
limbs.
The Mussulman revolt in Southern Bulgaria
is considered as 40 untoWard c7e1t IN L)nuou
diplomatic circles because it may lead to tie
Russian army taking possession OF the s'ronE
holds in parts of Rounelia hitherto cut OF tie
sphere of action The revolt is certainly got
due to British influence, but, tits asserted, has
been stirred up by agents Of Tue Ausirlsa Con
sui General to Montenegro, NJ. Fass'tch, who
is the leader 10 the West Balkao peninsula 81
the movement hostile to the San Stcfano treaty.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 30.-Genaral lyna
,ieff says: "Havug corc,ded so much in order
to arrive at q congress, Russis is deter mined
that The Eastera question shall &c finally de.
cided so that there will net be 3 renewal OF
the struggle next year.
"If Eoglaud aud Austria arc not contcuted
with our CONCESSIONS IL present, the English
first and the Austrians next can best
answer | can only say that we are
ready aud disposed fer whatever lnay, co:ne
The concessions which it was stated in the
St. Petersburg despatch 10 Mondays Times,
that Russia would make, limitation OF tho
boundaries aud of the period of occupation OF
Bulgaria, substitution Of European fer Rvs
sian commission and the organ ,lon OF Eu
ropeau syndicate to consider the claims OF the
bondholders as we'll as the Russian calo Tor
indemnity, the retrocession of the small slip
of Bessarabia Inhabited by Russians arc owned
to be great, but it is conspicuous that she com,
pletely ignores the treaty of Paris and ts re-
affirmation of 1871.