Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-06-20


tation. s.
A letter from Liverpool. from
rect source, to merchant ~ fhl *
dated May 8, says. in speaking Qf <otton.
z. IN the general market, there is no
change, except thatthe holders are less
disposed to sell, since it has been Inti'
mated that the duty is to be altered to
one penny per pound, to take effecto on
the 9th of July next.
LIVERPOOL Markets.
Cotton, Bowed Georgia, TITO s0t,;
sea.Islands, 9to "a; New Orleans, s
to l24: Tennessee z to g; Tobacco, J.
River. Ell to 81; stemmed. 81 to a.;
Ashes Pot. New Y ork, AZ to AZ, Bos-
ton as: Montreal SO to 81; Pearl. AZ to
as: Rice, in bond, ID to II; Tar, IL to
Is per bbl; Turpentine, IL to las Cd
Quercitron Bark, New York, IA to
l6 6; Philadelphia, Is to 49,
CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 8.
Our market was well supplied to day
with all grain. but particularly with
wheat, barley and oats; few prime
samples Of the former article sold early
in the morning on full as good terms as
this day Sc night, but all other sorts
were extremely dull sale at reduction
Of %. per quarter.
An advance Of nearly 2s per bushel
took place in the Exeter Market on the
Sd, being sold at from IS I'D. to IS. and
prime samples about IS.
FRENCH FUNDS, May I.
Five per cents. 87f. 80c. Bank Stock,
1885,.
At Vienna, on the 2qd of April, the me-
tallioues were at "a 7-I6ths. The Bank
Shares 6624-5ths.
There was report at Paris on the "a.
of May, that Spanish force was forming
in Arragon and Catalonia, Of Infantry, ca
valry, and artillery, equal to that OF the
French Sanitary Gordon"
The French Legislative body closed on
the 3Oth OF May, to meet again on the 4th
of June.
A Paris paper remarks, that there is no
news OF an authentic character respecting
Turkey and Russia. ;, ~
Mails from Hamburger, Holland, Flan-
ders and France arrived in London on the
9Th ult. The complexion OF the accounts
furnished by them were of decidedly a
pacific nature; not the smallest fear OF a
rupture between Russia and Turkey
seemed 10 exist in the minds OF intelligent
men in the great cities of the continent. !,
An article from Vienna, under date OF
April 90, says that the public attention
had been excited in consequence OF tre-
ouent conferences between the French
Ambassadors, Prince Metternich and Ba-
ron Sturmer, Director of the Chancery OF
Foreign Affairs:
1t is stated that Mr.. Canning will pro-
coed to India in the Jupiter 54 gun ship,
Capt. Thomas Briggs.
In the British House of Commons, Oh
the first of May, while the subject of Pau
pERs, was under consideration, Mr.. James
presented petition for parliamentary re-
form from the city of Carlisle; and NJ pro-
duced Gne laugh in the House by declar..
ing that he was an advocate for universal
suffrage" =, :.
In the same sitting Sir James Mackin.
tosh asked whether His Majesty's Govern
ment had yet fully recognised the inde-
rendence of the Republic, formerly COM
posing part Of Spanish America. or
whether they had done any act implying
such recognition, and whether they IN
tended to take any measures tor promo
ting a commercial intercourse with those
colonies {? The Marquis of Londonderry
said, that to the first OF the series OF ques-
tons. he answered decidedly in the mega
tive. As to the I'd, his Malesty's govern
ment. in their intercourse with those coun.
tries: had undoubtedly treated them as de.
facto governments; had considered them
as belligerents, and had, accordingly. re-
spected their blockades. With regard to
The question relating to commercial inter-
course, bill was about 10 he brought I'D
by Mr.. Robinson which would contain a
clause for promoting such an intercourse.
Recurring to the question OF recognition,
be repeated that none had directly taken
place: and he trusted that he should not be
called upon 70 give any further answer
until government should have had commu-
nication and explanation with other par
ties deeply interested in the question.
Deputations from the merchants con-
nected with the South American and other
trades in Liverpool, had arrived in Lon
don to attend to the measures before gov
eminent and the House Of Commons,
touching the commercial connexion VITA
the former colonies Of Spain in the western
hemisphere. and the other important ques-
tons affecting the shipping and mercantile
interests of the country. :.
The Catholic Peers bill was read hrst
time in the House of Commons on the 80
of May, and ordered to second reading
that Gay se-night.
Lord Norberry brought forward mo-
t;o, in The, Hovae of Commons on the Cd,