Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-04-17
Foreign Intelligence.
ATE FROM ENGLAND.

LATE FROM ENGLAND.
By the packet ship Roscoe, Captain
n,lano, which sailed from Liverpoo
an the a5th of February, files of Lon
ion papers to the Gath, and Liverpool
% the s5th, both inclusive, have beer
,eceiyed in New York.
ENGLAND.
The House of Commons were en-.
gagged as a committee of Supplies.
The Liverpool Standard of the 25th
February states, that the British cabi.
ne, had refused 10 grant any remun.
Grafton to Capt. Ross and his officers
FOR their immense losses and sufferings;
except the promotion of the officers OF
the expedition, and the payment of the
men, which was considered sufficient
and ample remuneration. Proposals
we're making for petition to Parlia.
ment in favor Of Capt. Ross and his
officers.
Mr.. Beardsley Of the House of Re.
presentatives will probably be gratified
10 know that his name has crossed the
Atlantic, and that his "perish credit,
perish commevce" speech has attract.
ed the notice of British politicians.
They do not give Mr.. Beardsley credit
for originality in the expression; this
thew claim to be due to one of their
own Radicals. They are candid e..
nough, however, to admit that their
Radical has been greatly excelled by
ours, in an exclamation, which they
say 1--WE quote the words) swell de.
notes the furious character of party
spirit in that country"
M. Newton, the Artist-The Times
of February cath says: "We are re-
quested to state that the reports which
have been lately current do not apply
to MIR. Newton, the miniature painter,
of Argyle street, in any one respect.
The Dublin Pilot.-The English
Journals would have been perfectly
insipid, as it regards the affairs of
their own country, had it not been for
the timely interposition Of the Com
missioners of Stamps in Ireland, in
the case Of Mr.. Barrel, 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 seditious
libel.
This section Of the act remained a
dead letter upon the statute book, until
it was put in force on the 18th Of Fe-
bruary upon Mr.. Barrett, the pub.
Usher of Mr.. O'Connell's libel, now in
Kilmainham Jail and the paper sup
pressed, under an official order. The
publishers, however, have ingeniously
defeated the law, by issuing second
edition under this title "1he Morning
Register. The Pilot is suppressed" y.
In all respects the paper is, with this
title, complete fac smile of the Pilot.
Thus do the politicians "whip the old
fellow round the stump" in Ireland.
The press is loud in its donuncia.
tons of the enforcement Of the act in
question. The Irish Government de.
MES having interfered in the premises.
In reply to question in the Commons,
as to whether government had inten-
tionally revived this detestable provi-
sion of the Irish Stamp Act, Lord AL
thorp said "the provisions Of the Act
were positive and left no discretion 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 con6scated, as we have
seen, has been long suffered to remain
in allegiance. 1t was last enforced a.
bout twenty years ago, against Mr..
John MAGGIE, proprietor of the Dub
lin Evening Post, whose property was
ruined. The Morning Herald of Fe-
bruary 25th says, the act of suppress
ing the Pilot is worthy of Bourbon ty-
ranny, and rivals the most energetic
doings of the Citizen King" to extin-
guish the liberty of the Press in France.
No Government Paper that we are
aware of has dared 10 defend this act
of legal confiscation-for il is, in eff
feet, a confscation of property; but
some of the journals that bear the
stamp of treasury inspiration, have set
up the plea of ignorance for the Gov
ernment, and attempted TO shift from
the responsible advisers of the Crown
the whole weight of public odium re.
sulting from this transaction to the
shoulders of subordinate functionaries
the Commissioners of Stamps"
The Queen held a drawing room on
the oath, in honor Of her 42d birth
day. 1t was very brilliant. The de-
scxiption of the pageant occupies sa
columns rthe Morning Herald.
FRANCE.
Paris papers are to the 22d tebrua
nv. inclusive. There were difficultie
between the Silk Weavers and thel
Employers, at Lyons. The former ha
turned'out. No compromise had bee
effected at the last advices, but no sc