The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1885-05-29

eign ambassadors and ministers, and
members of the entire diplomatic corps.
When Lord Salisbury starts the state
ment that the time has come TO substi-
tute action for words, that the pen must
be dropped and the sword taken up,
all the organs of public opinion possess
sing accurate sources of information fol-
low in the same warning tone, and the
hopes inspired by the alliance rumors
grow faint and the actual prospect be-
comes more distinctly defined.
vALUELEss RUMoRs.
A member of the Government, who,
from his intimate relations with the treas
ury bench, must necessarily be accurate
ly informed, said last evening: "The
positive statements you hear from day to
day in quarters usually rejecting State
affairs do not necessarily mean that mat
ters have reached definite stage one way
or the other. They frequently do no
more than indicate momentary hitch or
passing phase. When it is stated, for in
stance, that the Guards have been ordered
to stop at Alexandria, on their way nome,
something may have occurred calling Tor
demonstration of some sort. And SO
with hundred instances that have re-
Gently come to light, in no idle spirit OF
display, but with serious intention OF
proving that material resources exist, and
that more of the same sort can be found
when the dire necessity arises, are these
| demonstrations made. Further drafts of
British troops under orders Tor home
from Egypt have been suddenly stopped
| by telegraph from the Horse Guards in
consequence of the threatened combina-
tions of the powers hostile to British In
terests in their country"
WILL HOLD ON TO EGYPT.
Before separating, the Cabinet are un'
derstood to have arrived at unanimous
resolve to keep possession OF Egypt at all
cost during the present unsettled state
of affairs. There are on board French
Government ships passing through the
canal, in harbor at both ends and at
points in the Mediterranean and the Red
Sea within easy steaming distance, a
force estimated at 5000 men of all arms,
and in official quarters 1t is said there If
absolute certainty that the trooping ar
rangements of the French War Office in
sure an equally large force being con
stantly in the vicinity awaiting the British
evacuation. The departure of the las
British garrison would be the signal for
French occupation. Excuses as good al
those which were held to justify the bonn
bardment of Alexandria by the British
OTHER NATIONS AT HAND.
British troops are concentrating at AL
exandra, points along the canal, Sue
and at Alden, and the naval force in thes'
waters and at both ends of the. canal !
being quietly strengthened. The Frencl
are reinforcing their garrisons in th
North African stations and on the Soutl
Mediterranean coasts. Italy is accumu
| lating war material for two corps d'arme
/ at the arsenals and dock-yards on tn
Mediterranean. The Turkish garrison
| in the Balkan districts, on the Black Ses
| In the northern districts in Asia and o
the newly acquired Russian frontier al
being rapidly strengthened, and proc
? of the extent of the war preparations no.
going on is afforded by the fact that a
conscripts liable to service have une,
, pectedly been ordered into barracks fo
training, and the War Department is raj.
, ing the army as rapidly as means allo'
to war strength.