Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-06-21
{ ALEXANDRIA:
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 81, 1884.
VERY LATE FROM EUROPE.


Kearney, arrived from London, with papers al
so of the 18th, and subsequently the packet ship
Henry w., Captain Castof, arrived from
Havre, which port she left on the 10Th of May,
and brings Paris dates to the nth.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Col Tensions motion for repeating the
Septennial Act was debated at large on the
18th of May. The proposition was negatived,
by a vote of253 to 1875. The leading speakers in
favor of the proposition were, the mover Sir
d. Sanford, and Mr. O'Connell. Against it
Lord Althorp, Lord Dalmany, and Mr.. STAN
ley The chief objection urged most effectively
against the motion, was that reform has been
effected which was held out by those who in
troduced il, and accepted by those who support
ed if, as settlement of the question of parlia-
mentary reform The reform act was never
talked of by its authors or its friends as step
ming stone to further demands, but as secu-
rity that further demands would not be insisted
upon.
The Irish Church amendment bill, has been
ordered to third reading in the Lords.
Lord Wynford's Bill for the better observance
of the Sabbath, was opposed by the Lord Chan
cellor and the Bishop of London, and has been
rejected.
Notice has been given in the Commons for a
bill to abolish Imprisonment for debtin certain
cases.
calling the attention of Parliament to the dis
tressed condition of the hand loom weavers.
From the unusual prevalence of diarrhG in
London another visit of the cholera is appre-
hended.
At the levee of the King of England, on the
9TH ult., Captain r. F. Stockton and Lieut..
Alex Slidell, of the United States Navy, were
presented by Mr. Vail, the United States Charge
dAfaires.
FRANCE.
Animated discussions have taken place in the
Chamber of Deputies, on the grants required by
the Ministry for the increase of the army
The Ministers carried their proposition BY
majority of 100.
Some curious facts came out on the adjourn
ed discussion, as to the characters of many of
those who took an active part in the disturban-
ces at Lyons and Paris. According to one of
the Deputies M Fulchiron, )no small proportion
of the reckless people at the former town were
brigands and liberated convicts. For it is
right you should know, gentlemen" continued
the Hon Deputy, "that there, as well as in other
places liberated convicts, have played very
remarkable part man that could name,
but that he is now in the hands of justice, en-
tered, at the head of6O0 brigands the Faubourg of
Vaze, aud took possession of the Mayors
house, saying to the municipal chief There is
no question now of tariffs or wages-the ques
ton now is the Republic, and it is in the name of
the Republic that establish myself here as a
provisional public Mayor"
General JacQuemnat also spoke very signifi-
cantly. sit has been asked" said the General,
what are the causes Of the troubles and re-
volts that we have so often 10 deplore? ] reply
that they are caused in part by those ineendia-
ry speeches which we sometimes hear within
these walls. Much has been said ofthe wretch
ed situation of the working classes, but also
have right TO speak on that subject, for every
week six hundred workmen are paid in my of
fee and can affirm that never at any former
period have the workmen been happier" The
honorable deputy then stated " that the great
majority of the prisoners brought to the Hotel
de-Ville on the night of the 18th April were
young lads not more than fifteen years of age,
and scarcely covered with rags" !" And it is
of such beings" he exclaimed, Kit can be
gravely asserted that they have been driven
to despair by the political errors of govern
ment?"
The Marseilles Journal of May 9TH, has the
following postscript
an Mailefer, principal editor of the Pea.
pie Souperain, and Messrs. Bartheiemy and
Richard, two other EDITORS have just been ar
rested, and placed in the most strict secret con-
Tinement"
In Paris arrests continue to be frequent, par
icularly of newspaper editors. Domiciliary
visits, and all the Irritating and eXasperahng
workings of an immense police and espionage
system supply innumerable paragraphs to the
press, and extend naturally the spirit of hostili
~ to the Government which had been already
sufficiently rancorous.
The King has granted from his privy purse
she sum of 10,000fr. to be distributed at Lyons
amongst the innocent victims of the late riots.
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.
In the House of Lords, on the 10th of May,
Lord Pamerston in answer to some questions
from Sir r. Vivian, on the affairs of Portugal,
stated" that a treaty which related to the af
fairs of the Peninsula had been signed by the
Plenipotentiaries of England, France Spain
and Portugal and that as soon as it should be
ratified it would be laid on the table Of the
House; that the Publications of three of the par
ties had been received in London; that the ap-
preaching arrival of the ratification Of Portu-
gal had been officially announced, and that it
might be confidently expected that the vessel
bearing if would reach England in few days.
His Lordship stated also that it was true that
General Rodill was within the territories OF
Portugal; that he had entered them with the
full consent of the Portuguese Government. and
certainly without the disapprobation of the