Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-04-01
Foreign News.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.

General lPna.Iet lett Tor 81. PETERSBURG yCs'
terday morning. The semi Official Mootaes
Rsvu, says: 'G4neral lguaIetf asccrta'ned
from Count Audrassy that Austria rejects the
treaty of peace signed at Sac Stefano as clash
iug with both her OVID and European Interests.
Count Andrassy also Informed Gen. lgnaef
oe Austria's interests with great exactness, but
General Isuatieff, being withoutpoWers to con
cude any arrangement whatever, could only
accept the declaration ad referendum.
The London Standards correspondent at
Berlio says: IN consequence of Austrla's re-
| fusal to come to an arrangement With Russia 1t
il believed that Prince Gortschakotf has already
informed Lord LOTUS that Russia is ready to
yield to Eoglaud's demand in regard to the
A special from Vienna says runor is cur.
! rent there that the immediate mobilization OF
| 400, 900 men on the Bosnian frontier has been
| ordered.
Ia consequence of demonstration in The
Hungarian Diet on Saturday, when an aliuslon
to an understanding with Eog'and was made,
there was much cheering.
A telegram from Athens states that rum0r
is current there that England has asked per.
mission to encamp an cxpedtlooary corps lo
| Greek territory
The Turks have reoccupied Bujukdere. The
| evacuation cf the Qua6riiateral by the Turks
has been deferred for the present.
! 1t is reported that the Immediate ramobl'iz'
| ton of the whole Servian forcas has been or.
dered in consequence of the report made by the
committee of the Austrian general staff that
the treaty Of San StefaDo would compel Austria
| to extend her military power over SerVa, Mon
| teneero, Bosnia and Albania.
| A Turkish force estimated at ten thousand
has storned the insurgent positions on Mount
| Peliou, and captured Macrinllzl. The lnsur
gents are entrsnohiDg new positions. The
losses on both sides we're heavy. News of an
other battle is momentarily expected.
| A special dated Coustautnope, Friday, states
| that if the English feet is not withdrawn the
| Russians will occupy Constantinople Gith the
approval Of the Sultan.
| The same correspondent understands that
Mr.. Laysrd, 10 accordance with instructions of
| the British government, has asked the Porte
what it's attitude will be in the event Of an
Anglo-Russian war;
| LONDON, April 1.-The Times aud the Morn
| Jog Post both reiterate the statement that Lord
Salisbury has succeeded Lord Derby as Secre.
tary of State for the Foreign Department.
The official announcement is probable to day.
The Post also repeats the report that Right
Honorable Claiborne Hardy, now Secretary Of
State for War, is to be raised to the Peerage,
and will succeed Lord Salisbury as Secretary Of
State for India and President Of the Council Ct
Indie, and that Hon. Frederick Arthur Stanley,
Financial Secretary of the Treasury, will sue
coed MIR. Hardy n the war Office.
Reuters telegram company have the follow.
ing dispatch:
The Grand Duke Nicholas had an interview Of
two hours duration with the Sultan 90 Satur'
day. Nj. Onon. the Russian dragomsD, was
the only other person present. The Russians
are terrifying the liocs Of Chataja and erecting
eutreDchments at all straigIcal points. Oman,
| Fuad and Reouf Pashas have gone to the Turk
| ish camp at Marak. Moukhtar Pasha has been
appointed chief of the general staff, and OsmaD
| Pasha commandant of CoDstanlinople. The
| Russian Admiral Popoff has arrived here. The
Egyptian contingent from Varna arc encamped
at Uokiar Skeless, village Of Asia Minor, 10
| the Bospborus, eight miles north northeast OF
| Constantipople 1t ia believed in military cir.
Giles that Russia and Turkey have arrived at az
understanding, but there is 20 visible Indication
of this. 1t is still hoped that peace will be
| maintained
LONDON, April lat Lloyd's Oh Saturday
war assurances were FIVE shilll0gs per hundred
pounds on British bulls and cargoes, and ten
| to twenty shiiliDgs on Black Sea risks, which
arc regarded with great disfa7or, and halt to
one per cent on Russiao bulls
The Money Market Review weekly paper
directs attention to the fact that Russian ex-
change bas fallen eleven per cant during the
past week, and that The rouble is now quoted
at 2lf to % pence, depreciation OF about
| Al per cent. from par-thirty seven and a.
half. The Money Market Review co1c!udes
that L is morally certain that war you'd be i'm
medatey followed by Russian bankruptcy and
40 entire suspension of payments on the debt.
The London Times 10 its column Of naval
and military Intelligence says:-"rha adml-
rally have made an urgent requlSluon on con-
tractors who arc manufacturing large uumber
of picks and sho7es at Northampton AND do
manded to know wien they will be ready. Re.
busiocss AID the men coming in are OF supe-
rior class. [! was expected that with the close
| of TIE ioancia year March 3D. beyond which
| the six million pounds credit does not ruD, an
extensive dismissal Of extra men from the
government works at WoolWich would occur,
bu. the war Office has ordered that the extra
men he retained, only su5paodlog over time
work
The Times Rome correspondent telegraphs
as follows: Count Cort, FOREIGN Minister,
has promised the Cham Der of Deputies to
expIan tho Governments Eastern Dal!cy on
the S:h iust So far as he may feel iuclined to
explain be will undoubtedly say that observaot
ioactou a1d neutrality are ineXorably ItsIy'5
policy. She may be alarmed at Russia colossal
growth in the East. but homo complications
add the necessity OF keeping on good terms
With Germany and Austria will keep her
quiet"
The Times Berlin despatch says: ''Tbe de
cree prohibiting the expectation Of horses from
Germany which was to have been cancelled 90
The first Of April remains 10 force until further
notice.
A St. Petersburg despatch to the Times
states (thcreu contradioting semofic Ut,
teraute5) that Lord Derby's resignation of the
foreign cfiee was a complete surprise aud
caused az immense sensation 10 official circles.