Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-03-21

reGH I'M yOFttstl Ia - al Vsk{ci ptokf -
Britsin. THIS extra quaint IS not more
than sufficient for the demand Ut our ma
nufactures, which are eagerly bought up
as sooil as the webs are out OF the looms.
Indeed if there we're double the number
|cf looms going, the produce Of them
would be no more than sufficient to supply
the demand. Dundee Courier.
Glasgow. Jan. l9.
COTTON WOOL.
The sales during the last week amount
ed 10 1881 bales; 10 Sea Island l5dd; loi
do. stained lid a i3d; 333 bowels s
g. Sd Ioid; 81 New Orleans 1old IL
SOD: 10 Pernambuc l23d; 30 Bahia lIad;
20 Maranham I'D; 80 Bahama load a
| Io4d: l49 Demerara and Berbice Gid a l2
Sd; IS Carriacou lo4d: 282 Valencia
Sid; 5 Bengal I'd
! Imported bales from Charleston.
London, Jan. %. "
We received Yesterday the Paris papers
| OF Saturday last There was no pubic
sitting on Friday Of the Chamber OF De,
| puties. The Keeper of the Seals assisted
| Ito use the French term, but shich IN this
case may probably have good deal OF
meaning) on that dav at the last sitting OF
! the Committee on the project regarding
the Police of the Journals. M. de Martg-
nae was to make Report Of the Commit
tee to the Chambers on Saturday, when
also the project for the repression OF the
offences OF the Press was to be discussed.
The Moniteur contains two Royal ordon
| nances, one snppressng the general direc-
ton of the Departmental Administration
and of the Police, and the other re-ests-
blisbing the ten Sedentary Companies.
suppressed in 1877
A meeting of Lsnd Owners and Agricul-
turists of the County of Huntingdon was
held on Tuesday last in the borough oil
| Huntingdon, for the purpose OF consider
| ing the distressed condition OF the AgrI-
cultural interest The following isa copy
of the petition which was adopted by the
| Meetlng:-
"To the Honorable the Commons OF the
| United Kingdom Of Great Britain and
Ireland, in Parliament assembled.
"The petition Of the Land Owners,
Farmers and Traders, whose names
are undersigned, residing in the VI
cinity of Huntington, and parts
adjacent:
"Most humbly sheweth,
"That the affairs of your petitioners are
in state of embarrassment, and them.
selves anc families in state OF distress
and alarm Of which they are wholly. IN
bic to lay an adequate description before
your Honorable House-tbat it IS their
sincere conviction, that unless an effIcient
| remedy be speedily applied, CONFUSION
of the most alarming nature must be the
final consequence; for they see the hour
approaching when rents must 60 unpaid,
taxes and tithes uncollacted, relief to the
poor undi.fributed, and when the laborlng
classes, raging with hunger, will be IN
duced to satisfy that hunger by acts OF
violence. ;,
"The cause OF this state OF suffering and
danger cannot, your petitioners humoiy
presume be other than manifest to your
Honorable House; but you. humble peti.
TONERS beg leave to express their dec'ded
opinion, that The immediate cause IS that
act of yonr Honorable House, which has ID
fact, ,rlpled the value of money compared
with the price of produce, aud which,
lesving the taxes unreduced and contracts
unmodi6ed has, in fact, triplsd those tax
es. and disturbed and violated all existing
contracts.
"Your epetitioners, therefore, hunbly
pray that your Honorable House will be
pleased to adopt measures 10 rectity all
contracts according to the alteration in
the value of money-that you will be
pleased TO abolish all sinecures and grants
all pensions not fully merlted by real public
services-to discharge the standing army,
to curtai the civil list and reduce the in
teres, of the public debt, so that the bur-
then of taxation may be greatly alleviated;
these measures being, in the fixed opinion
of your humble petitioners, absolutely ne
cessary to put an end to the present dis
tress and misery, and to turn aside the
dangers which row menace every species
of property, as well commercial as agri-
cultural, and which in the conviction Of
your petitioners, threaten to produce
scenes Of disorder, confusion and violence
which duty to their families their country
and their King, compels them to sntici-
pate with a degree Of sorrow and alarm
not in their power to describe.
our petitioners are not inseBsi5le 10
the defective state of the Representa-
ton in the House OF Parliament, as at pre-
sent constituted, and cannot, therefore,
help expressing their decided opinion, that
the manifold evils that at present aflict
this unhappy country are increased, If not
occa,ioned, by this unhappy circumstance.
We, therefore. earnestly hope your Hon
orabIe House will lose no time iastituting
an inquiry into the present state of such
Representation, in order that your petit
oners and the people atlarge, may receive
that which they feel j. their birth righ:-