Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-11-01
EOrafgH News.

ilcrcc they asked Gu the Afghanstan question:
and cc.aplained Of their Withholding authoE'ta'
tive Information. lie showed that The relations
with Afehauistan we're satisfactory during DIS
| administration, and be justified the displeasufo
ct the Amer ct tho British occupation or
| Ouettab. He pointed out that tho weak Power
which q profssscdy chivalrous government
| threatened to punish for receiving Russian
embassy was less culpable than the sender OF
the embassy. The sending Of the embassy was
apparently q breach Of Russia's engagements
| to England, but he feared Russia would cite as
justification the unfriandly conduct of the Brit
lsh government Mr.. Gladstone declared that
| to saddle Iuiia with the expense of defense
against imaginary dangers would be 81 lrJus'
| tice as INDUSTRIOUS a5 any recorded 10 the history
of the world.
| Mr.. Gladstone, ia conclusion. asked the peo
pie to compare the state of England in 1878
| with that in 1875 He energetcalIy defes ded
| the Geneva arbitration, and thought it tar bet.
ter to make nation of forty millions friend
than ono of eighty millions an enemy. What
| they were now protesting against was not nero
| ly series of false steps. but new system OF
government By personal responsibility OF the
sovereign, only too likely to sap the foundations
of monarchy.
The Russian press is extremity hostile to Eng
land. The Felomost says the great struggle
with England, which has been preparing for
| centuries, will occur in Afghanistan.
The Ruski Mir declares the hour hss come
when England will be held responsible for past
| delirQuenclas.
A Simla correspondent says it is 30 secret
| that tho Indian government has urgently and
| tn1
Amer further delay. The Vieeroy bes used
| bis whole personal influence, 10 favor OF imne-
| diate action. The Seeding of tho uitimatum ls
universally regarded co cru:l aud humliatipg
mistake.
The same correspondent says the ultimatun
demands full apology and the reception Of q
British mission by the Amer, with other con.
ditions. There i5 20 expectation that it will DC
accepted. 1t is hoped that tho Amecr will re-
| fuse to permit tho cmlssary, who started on
Monday, to cross the tfonticr, but it is believed
he will tenpoll1e.
A dispatch from SimG says the uItimatum
| gives the Amecr very short time to answer,
| at the expiration of which it il believed there
will be general advance.
| Is appears that tho discomfort in Spain is DOT
confined to handful Of agtators, but that a
more serious element Of dissatisfaction Exists ia
the army.
A Constantioop!e dispatch states ,ha: the
Greek Minister there has received Information
that the British note urging strict adherence or
the Powers to tie treaty of Berlin Will recon-
mend mediation on tine Greek frontier question.
| at the request Of the advocate OF Juan NJ 90
caai, the would be regcide, medical examloa'
ton OF the menta! condition of the prisoner Was
ordered, end be- has been pronounced perfectly
| Nv, ho ptnI hn
purpose
The St. Petersburg Golos rejoices over tic
delay ir the English operations against Afghan.
istan. [! says as long as peace continues Russia
can give arms and money to any one.
The National Line steamer Helvetia. which
left Liverpool yesterday for New York, was il
collision off Taskar light with The British
revenue cutter Fanny, which foundered almost
Immediately. Seventeen OF tho Fanuy's Gre"
were lest aud seven were saved.
| Tho Austrian delegation elected yesterday
consists OF about thirty five supporters and
twenty five opponents OF Count Andrassy. 1t
| is expected that ADdrassy will have a still larger
msjority 10 the Hungarian delegation.
| Although the kirg of Denmark did not make
the betrothal Of the Duke Of Cumberland add
| Princess Tbyra conditional upon tho Duke s
| sbaicstion of his olsius to the throne of Han
oser be expressed the wish TO the Berlin gov.
ernmeGt that the betrothal should make no al
| teration in the friendly relations between Pru'.
| STA and Denmark.
The London Globe states that Mr. SotherG,
the actor, is suffering from g paralyiic seizure
Il is stated, however, in other quarters that his
| illness is the result OF general breakdown from
overwoTk.
The eruption OF Mount Vcsu7iu3 has recon
mended with great activity.
Advices from Cuba confirm the report that
| DR.. Secchi had engaged to introduce into the
| island ten thousand coolies, year from Trinl
| dad and Dcmerara, to be contracted fer i've
years at one shilling day. lie sold three
coolies at Santiago de Cuba for two hundred
dollars each. The contracts were selzad and
the coolies sent back to Tri1ldad BY the British
| Consul, the coolies being British subjects.
Advices from China state that on attack was
| made by pirates 90 o merchant house Ia Hong
Kong, and fight was kept up for several
hours between The police and the pirates, who
| were forced to retreat to their boats. Leaving
one killed and several wounded. The plunder
| secured was sm all.
The United States Consul at Tangier gives
fearful account Of the lavage8 OF the cholera 10
Morocco Hs says: The misery among the
people is great. Business and traffic are almost
completely parsl5zed. The cholera is swoop-
ing over the middle and southern provinces,
and hundreds are dying Of starvation. To all
these miscres smallpox and malignant tevers
add their horrors. Never before has Morocco
passed through such fearful ordeal. All the
leading Israeltes and many Europeans have
fed from Tangier panic stricken, while the
wild and uncertain rum&s of the rsvages ct
the pestilepce in the interior which are brought
daily to Tapgier by refugees add to the general
CONSERVATION. While immense plumbers CT
persons are starving 10 the very streets of Tar
gier, and while tho merchants ere selling all
trcadstuffs at cost. the authorities still persist
in IevyiDg tariff Of ten per cent on all imports
of provisions. Add to all these further vista
lions the further fact that the neighboring
countries have almost completely cut off Mo.
rocco from communication with the outside
world, and no gloomier picture can be i'm.
agined.
The pirates on tho Persian Gulf have been
severely punished. Eighteen Of their pratical
aft hava ham eanfnrnd