Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-06-01
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.

arrived yesterday from Liverpool.
bringing regular advices to the 10th u'>
timo. spd from London to the evening
of tho l4tb, inclusive. They afford nc
intelligence ofimportance.
LONDON, April "a.
The Paris papers contain accounts
Of horrible msssscres and excesses
which have taken place in several cite.
of Spain. The prisons At Madrid had
been broken open, and many persons,
detained for political offences, saeri'
feed. At Csrdovs, about ten have
been mastered, for the plot succeeded
only in part. At Vslencis. the eIoItes
threw numbers into prison: These
circumstances explain the cause OF tho
Spanish proclamation which we pub
lished yesterday from q Gibraltar pa
per.
FRANCE.
The French budget has been present
ed TO the Chamber Of Deputies. Ac-
cording to this. the whole expenditure
Of 1928. ordinary and extraordinary,
was only LA Col .67l fancs, or about
.S45, 500, 900 sterling. The produce OF
the taxes had exceeded the estimate by
Ia, $50 585 francs; bnt all the receipts
fell some what short Of the expenditure.
The interest of the national debl and
the sinking fund is fixed for 1925, at
23S 0S5, 7S5 francs, or rs 100000. The
ta yes continne a in 1925
Reciprocity uties.-By British Order
in Council, duty OF &c. Sd. per ton has
been laid on French shipping. This duty
is imposed under the Reciprocity Act Tor
The purpose of placing the trade OF the TWO
countries on an equal footing-Englis
vessels in French ports having tor long
period been subjected to similar duty.
Spanish prohibition Duties. The last
letters from Madrid and CadiZ, state that
the Spanish government is about to remove
the prohibition or the importation OF cot.
tons and other articles into Spain, and that
import duties generally will be reduced.
Owing TO the prevalence OF smuggling,
both on he coast and frontiers OF France
and Portugal Inc Spanish treasury has hi
tberto derived but little advantage 10 the
way Of duties and il is wisely proposed so
TO reduce the duties as to remove the in-
ducement to resort to contraband agents.
Letters from Rio Janeiro, state that Lord
Cocbrane had had serious difference
with the Brazilian Government, and was
about to return to England. Lady Coch>
rane is arrived by the packet.
Mr.. Justice Best Is appointed Lord
Chief Justice Of the Court OF Common
Pleas.
The Hecla and Fury, discovery ships,
are rapidly preparing at Deptford for the
Polar expedition. Every precaution seems
to have been taken, that comfort and inge
nuity can devise, to render their success
complete They will proceed about tbs
middle OF May.
TRiEsTE, March %.
Letters from Corfu OF The lSth of March
give an important piece OF news, but
which needs con6rmation-it is the sur
render OF Arta, by q particular convention,
to the Greek General Bozzaris. II is al
ded, that the Albanian troops had Joined
with the insurgents, who Immediately ad-
vanced to JOANNA which they hope like
wise to bring TO population When the
Greeks are once masters of these two tor
tresses, they may consider themselves as
finally established in Epirus.
A letter from Corfu, OF the I lth inst. re.
ports that the Algerines have squadron !
cruising in those seas: and that the Co.
vernment there had laid an embargo on
all British and Ionian vessels.
Palermo, March l7-The Mariner.
from Bristol, arrived here, was fred at of |
Bona. by an Algerine cruiser, but escaped
without damage.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL Is.
In a Committee of the House, Mr.. Hus-
ksson moved for leave to bring in bill
to enable those who bad foreign grain in
warehouses, to convert il into -four, on
giving security TO replace il with a cor.
responding quantity Of -four. His reason
for doing this was, to enable the British
capital, now shut up in this produce, to
20 cut and seek a market. There were
immense expectations from Hamburg, end
other places. to the West India colonies,
which, but for the existing regulations,
might as well be supplied by British ca
patalIsts. Leave was given to bring in
the bill
Mr.. Curwen feared there was q great
probability that the ports would open for
the importation of foreign grain on the 9th
Of August-a measure which could not
but be ruipous to the agricultural interests
of the country, which were only just now
recovering from distress. But he thought
that the measure then under the conside.
ration Of the committee, would be very
confined 10 its operation; he therefore saw
no reason for opposing 1t. The whole
quantity OF foreign grain now in ware.
houses in this country. was only 44o, 900
quarters quantity not equal 10 the de.
tciency 10 the produce of the last harvest
as compared with an average one.
Dir. 4. Wilson was favorable to the
nYnpoapd ms aaura. tho doo oo. o,,,,o., -