Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-06-12
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EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
Important Ne1es.-G Great success OF Donna wa.
ria,s cause Settlement betloeen Don Miguel
and Don Pedro Don Carlos fed to England.
Bv the packet ship Sylvanus Jenkins, Capt.
Coffin. which sailed from Liverpool on Sunday,
the 18th May, the editors of the New York Dali
" Advertiser are put in possession of London
and Liverpool papers to the 18th inclusive, be-
ing eight days later than any previous date.
The news is of a most decided character: it APP
pears that the long contest between the two
brothers in Portugal was about drawing to
close, and that Don Carlos, by his flight to Eng
land would no longer keep Spain in a state of
agitation. The Liverpool Journal of the 10th
May says:
We have great pleasure in announcing the
probable cessation of hostties in the peninsu-
IA. The Lord Nelson in five days from Lis
hon. has arrived at Dartmouth, with news that
the Pedroites had taken Figuera: that Coimbra
had declared for Donna Maria that the whole
of the road from Oporto to Lisbon was open to
the Pedroites; and that Don Miguel and Don
Pedro had come to settlement, an armistice
having been agreed to- Nor is this ALL a tele-
graphic despatch was received at Paris on the
9Th instant stating that Don Carlos had en-
harked for England; it also corroborates what
we have above mentioned respecting Portugal;
for the despatch says g The affairs of Portugal
have been arranged between Don Miguel and
Don Pedro" These letters by the Lord Nelson
confirm the fact respecting Don Carlos. and say
that he had placed nlmSeA unaer the protecuon
of the English.
The news reached Paris from Bayonne, viii
ther il had been brought by the French secreta-
nv of legation, who had left Madrid on the Sd
instant. Coming to US from two sources, be-
sides its extreme probability, we are inclined to
give il every credence We understand that
the ratification of the convention between the
four Powers would be immediately and finally
executed.
The Irish Tythes Bill, as it is called, came mp
for discussion in Parliament on the 9th, and on
decidin8 for second reading the vote stood
29S to SO; majority in favor 1876.
The letters from Paris of Tuesdays date,
bring the prices of the French funds very firm,
the five per cent Rentes having closed at flO5
45c, and the three per cents at f79 Csc. Spa
nish Cortes bonds, which closed at 80 Sd. The
Portuguese Regency bonds were att
Reduction of the Four per Cents.-Public an
nouncement has at length been made of the
plan for the reduction of the per cents.
OF this plan, in the form now proposed, ia
vorabIe opinion is generally expressed in the
CITY, as plain, straightforward measure, ma
nifesting proper confidence in the resources
of the country and not threatened with any
serious objections or difficulties in the course
of its execution. 1t is obviously indispensable
TO its success that the 3 1-2 PER cents. should
rise to par at the least, as all persons would
otherwise be dissenters to the conversion, and
in this there are some persons certainly who
anticipate difficulty; but we suspect that the
measure has been prepared with too much fore
sight to leave any probability of it, and that
command of money is in reserve far greater
than there are likely to be dissentients to call
for. At present there is an actual advantage
TO be made in the sale of per cents, and by in
vesting the money in the existing 3 1-2 per cents
Of about 3-S per cent; but few operations of
this kind would soon do away with that advan-
tage and bring the stocks to the same level.
The union of the new stock with the large mass
of the existing l-2 per cents, though the divi-
dends are payable at different quarter of the
wear is held to be a judiciOuS feature of the
measure, and has been adopted, without doubt
because the other class of 1-2 per cents are re
deemable at the will of the government; while
the others, with the per cents now converted
are not redeemabe till the year 1910. fur
Their conversion, therefore, and on much
larger scale than this, istooked for early in the
next year. Times.
The Dublin papers report that Mount Tren-
chard, in the County of Limerick, the seat of
Mr.. Spring Rice, has wilfully been set fire to,
and burned to the ground. We hope, for the
honor of old Ireland" that the report is with
out foundation.
Trades Union.-The tailors, as well as jour
nevmen of other trades, are becoming dissatS-
fed with the unions. Six, who lodged in one
house. returned to their work on w ednesday
morning, after having lost, by their strike, two
pounds fifteen shillings each man.
The king of Denmark has issued an ordnance
abolishing all distinction in his colonies between
the whites and men of color; the latter, having
proved himself of irreproachable character for
three years, is to be declared free, and allowed
all the political and civil rights as the white po
pulation.
Mr. Audubon was at Liverpool, where he Wis
tied the Geological Garden.
An incident of a serious nature had occurred
at Toulon, during the celebration of the Kings
Fete. general salute was 6red-two of our
frigates in port paid the same compliment to
the day. In firing from the Constellation it
was forgotten that one of the guns was shotted,
and going off the ball entered the Suffern-one
of the balls passed through port hole, killed
sailor, carrying away the leg of another-some