Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-04-04
LATE FROM ENGLAND.

By the packet ship Roscoe, Captain Delano,
which sailed from Liverpool on the 25th of Fe-
bruary, files of London papers to the oath, and
Liverpool to the 25th, both inclusive, have been
received in New York.
. ENGLAND.
" rbe House of Commons were engaged as
committee of Supplies.
Mr.. OConnell has introduced bill to amend
the law of libels, and to regulate the freedom OF
the Press.
The Liverpool Standard of the 25th Februa-
rv states that the British cabinet had refused to
grant any remuneration to Capt. Ross and ms
Officers for their immense losses and sufterings,
except the promotion of the officers OF the ex-
pedition, and the payment OF the men, which
was considered Sufficient and ample remuaero-
ton. Proposals were making for petition to
Parliament in favor of Capt. Ross and his off,
GERS.
MIR. Beardsley Of the House of Representa-
tiyes will probably be gratified to know that his
name has crossed the Atlantic, and that his
"perish credit, perish commerce" speech mas
attracted the notice of British politicians. They
do not give Mr.. Beardsley credit for originality
in the expression: this they claim to be due to
one of their own Radicals. They are candid
enough. however, to admit that their Radical
has been greatly excelled by ours, in an eXcla-
nation, which they say Eve quote the words)
"well denotes the furious character of party
spirit in that country"
bruarv 24th says " We are requested to state
that the reports which have been lately current
do not apply to Mr. Newton, the miniature paint
er. of Argyle street. in any one respect"
The Dublin Pilot-The English journals
would have been perfectly inspd as it regards
the affairs of their own country had it not been
for the timely nterpoStion of the Commission
ers of Stamps in Ireland, in the case of Mr.
Barrett, the publisher of the Pilot. An act Of
Parliament passed many years ago, prohibited
the Commissioners of Stamps in Ireland from
selling or delivering any stamped paper to any
publisher who had been outlawed or convicted
of seditOuS libel
This section of the act had remained dead
letter upon the statute book, until it was put in
force on the 18th of February upon Mr.. Bar
rett the publisher of Mr.. O'ConnelPs libel now
in Kilmainham Jail, and the paper suppressed,
under an official order The publishers, howe
yer, have ingeniously defeated the law, by is
suing a second edition under this ttie The
Morning Register The Pilot is suppressed"
In all respects the paper is with this title COM
plete fac smile of the Pilot. Thus do the poll
ticians " whip the old fellow round the stump"
in Ireland.
The press is loud in its denunciaton of the
enforcement of the act in question. The Irish
Government denies having interfered in the
premises. In reply to a question in the Com
mons as TO whether government had intention
ally revived this detestable provision of the
Irish Stamp Act, Lord Althorp said 81 the pro-
visions Of the Act were positive, and left no dis
erection to the Commissioners as TO how they
should act they were, in fact bound to do as
they had done"
The act under which the Pilot was seized and
Confscated, as we have seen, has been long suf-
fered to remain in allegiance. 1t was last enforc-
ed about twenty years ago, against Mr.. John
Magee, proprietor of the Dublin Evening Post,
whose property was ruined. The Morning
Herald of February 18th says, the act of sup
pressing the Pilot is worthy of Bourbon tyran-
nv, and rivals the most energetic doings of the
"Citizen King" to extingush the liberty Of the
Press in France. No Government Paper that
we are aware of has dared to defend this act of
legal confiscation-for it is, in effect, conis-
cation of property; but some of the journals
that bear the stamp ofreasury inspiration have
set up the plea of ignorance for the Govern
ment and attempted to shift from the response
BILE advisers of the Crown the whole weight of
public odum resulting from this transaction to
the shoulders of subordinate functonaries-the
Commissioners of Stamps"
The Queen held drawing room on the 24th
in honor of her AID birthday. 1t was very bril-
liant The description of the pageant occupies
six columns Of the Morning Herald
AMERICAN STOCKS, in London on the 22d of
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FRANCE
Paris papers are TO the 22d February, inclu-
sive-There were difficulties between the Silk
Weavers and their Employers, at Lyons. The
former had turned out No compromise had
been effected at the last advices, but no serious
disturbances were anticipated
The Project of Police in Paris has issued a
decree, ordering all theatres to be closed at II
o'clock and when that hour arrives, the curtain
is 70 fall, and the police are to turn the audito-
ry into the street. Such decree, dangerously
enforced upon such theatre going theatre-lo-
wing people, and so mercurial withal as the
Parisians, must be more likely TO create dissat
isfaction than even serious acts of oppression.
The London Times contains the following
letter from Paris, Feb. Odd
Gen. Lafayette is still indisposed. AT the fu
neral of Mr. Dulong, which the old General
wished to attend on foot, his fanatics, or per-
haps his enemies, made an attempt to carry the
hero of the two worlds in triumph The old
General did not seem to relish this. The en-