Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-04-29
EGresgn News.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.

row. TIE GrauG Duke hss ir3u I'D be PORE
10 :, rG iwo nolc offers TO IFg2 The regular
troop, nho hag. j,iaed tue Mu,su'mau ipsnr
gents 10 submit. Some Greeks II !b'sce a0u
Msccavtia aIe j,ui1k H.; Mu5'u'mau ls1r
GEMS. Conli1uyu; 6ghiirg is ,eprr':d 10
Crete
The rero.t has heeo revived tiiai Gel uiaby
j. seckog 10 ;: cure the III utrslz''ljh OF me
Baltic 10 The Svcus or war.
\ correspondent at 81. Petersburg says -
There is some truth in the rumoIs that frirce
Bismarck has retired from the POSITION OF me
distor AS the pliooiple of simultaneous win
drawal from Corslautinor!c Is accepted, he
thinks negotiations as 10 tho details can be more
conveniently carried on directly between nne
psr,es concerned. Perhaps he 10 also itflu
euced by certain Unofficial insinuatlons that be
does not ardently desire the success OF the nc
go,iatiots. Ru sia is quite Iesdy 10 continue
NEGOTIATIONS oirecty, a.d hopes Lord Salisbury
viii abandon his purely negative criticism; but
il is not known how Englaud intends to act.
Some people are convinced that direct negolla'
lions can hardly fail TO be successful 1t both
sides desire an amicabe arrangement. This Is
the case with Ru isia, who is ready to accept,
any arrangement securing the ameloration OF
the condition of the Christians and moderate
compsusstiop. Ale recites the modlhoatlons
of the San Stefano treaty to which Kussla ls
wiling to submit, such as limitation OF the
boundaries, and of tho period ct occupation OF
Bulgaria, the sub;iiution Of European tor
Russian commission, and the organz ltlon OF q
E1ropoau syndicate to consider the claims of
toe holders of turkish bonds. as we'll as Rus
sia's claim for Indemnity. He says he has also
reason to believe that Russia will content her,
self with the retrocessiou Of small strip OF
B,ssarabis Inhabited by Russians She WILL
however, 70 al! appearance remlla hFm on the
question of submitting the whole treaty, as she
csuuut agree 10 any proposal which has the
evident Intention Of irfctug huml!i1tioo.
A Calcutta dispatch says it is reported that
the com handing cficers ofIunerous regiments
have received orders to have everything IN
readiness for immediate embarkatioD.
A correspondent OF Vienna Says all sides are
wiiiog to continue negotiations, although there
is soue nome utarS i'll humor 10 st. Petersburg
at the difficulties conceroing toe mutual With,
drawal from Constaotiocple. THIS il caused
By questions of detail. and not change OF mind
90 The part Of Great Britain. Efforts to arrive
at az understanding 90 this point are not con
sidered Abandoned.
A special from Berlin states that Austria Is
resolved to take immediate and torclble posses
sion of Bostia and Helz govlna
A Vienna correspondent says be be!ltvos
that The statement relative 10 the occupation
of Bosnia and Helz ,govua are based on mere
conjecture.
A special dispatch 10 the New Free Press OF
V,enoa reports that Eogsnd and Russia have
agreed to Withdraw to the Dardanelles aud
Adrianople respectively The truth OF this re-
port is extremely doubtful.
Tue Rome Dretto. ministerial organ. de-:
c!ares GA authority that Italy has not impaired
her freedom OF action, snd has neither entered
into any close relations with Germany or Aus
tria, cor iovted Eoglatd to formulate pro
gramme of her Eastern policy.
LONDON AIril 29-The news this morning
from he various capitals in regard to the po-
ltical situation is very conflicting. A Rome
dispatch oontrsdicts the statement that Italy
has asked Elyland to state her views and d
Berlin Dispatch reafirms it and says the CUES
tiou is COW 5erg repeated by Austria, Italy and
Germany
A dispatch TO the L1ndon Times, from 81.
Petersburg d"clar<s that Prince Bismarck has
ceased media.irg, while dispatches from Berio
aud FIenta state .Lc exact opposite very posi-
lively. IL is Impossible to exact the truth from
these various assertions, but the London Hines
ST. Petersburg correspondent undoubtedly d.
rivss his i'll fni.I!Du !r>m The 81. Petersburg
Charuc:iury Ii is equally impossible to d.:
trrmioe what il the iuuoduti0n fur the repeated
declarations thai Austria II about to occupy
Bosnia.
The Austrian aud Hunga.iau Ministers arc
10 council at Vitnua. Ii Is stated that Count
Andrassy is pressing tor az lmmedlato compro
misc OF the long pending controversies bo:Ween
the tW3 States because the condition OF to. ego
atFsirs dcmands 40 energetic policy which 10
testine Guards would binder.
LONDON, April 20 any corf ictiug reports
are current about the measures of prccaution
Austria will take, but noue are authoritative.
Il is said that the Scrvian activity and trucu.
leuce are bci6g excited by Russia to divert the
Austrian forces as Se1Via's only further expec.
tattoo Of proGt must lie in the direction of Bos
nia, where Austria could not permit her to 80.
The Daily Telegraph has a Vienna dispatch,
saying :-"Whatevcr measures Ut precautloD
the Government may have resolved upon Rus.
sia is not party to theM. They have Ger.
mays sanction. Possibly they were suggested
froEl Berlin, bus Austria ID still free as TO her
future movements"
1t is worthy Of notise that the Times Vienna
correspondent who is the bes Informed and most
trustworthy and careful of all the special c5p
tributors to the London press discusses tao pc
sition elsewhere to day ut considerable length,
but has not word to say about the attitude of
Austria. This is q fair indication that no de-
cisiou has been reached at Vienna.
LONDON, April 29.--Geaeral Sir Alfred
Hastings Horsford has been selected as com.
mander Of the second army corps. Il coosd
cradle proportion Of the first army corps is like
y to be dispatched to Malta 10 The course Of
the coming week, including a portion of the
guards Many thousand stand of Martini
Henri riffs arc being removed from the racks
in the tower Of London, presumably for the
equipment Of the reserves.
There is great activity at Portsmouth 10
preparing fittings for the conversion of mer-
chant ships into armed cruisers. A certain
manufacturing tirm has received from the Ad.
miralty an order for more than one hundred
wire torpedo nets for the protection of ships
from attacks of fish torpedoes All the nets
are to be delivered during May.
Immense quantities. OF shot and shell are