Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-02-23
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iLVerpOOl uattS " tlio itAA ii'e h'hAo Ai'''' oA
hoard IS Boston passengers and l 49 Lancashire
operatives, the latter. sent out by the lberallty
Of Miss Burdett Coutts,
The Confederate ship Conner was lying in
Cardiff docks, awaiting favorable winds. She
is painted pink and blue.
The Southampton correspondent writes that
the steamship Adriatic is just ordered to get
ready for sea, and proceed to New York from
Southampton for the present.
The Times city article says: lit IS reported
that an offer was made about two months ago,
by certain parties in Paris, to negotiate loan
for the Confederate government OF i've millions
Of pounds sterling, on the basis Of cotton at 5
pence per pound the holder having the option
after certain period Of exchanging ms cotton
for Confederate bonds at TO- bearing eight per
cent. interest, and that the offer was partially
accepted. =
The opening Of Parliament and the Queens
speech were sent out by the Glasgow and Nova
Scotlan.
The Queen $ speech contains very little of
Importance, excepting the following: Her
Majesty has abstained from taking any step
with view to induce cessation OF the conilct
between the contendlng parties OF the North
American States, because it has not yet seemed
to her that any such overtures could be attend
ed with probability of success. Her Majes-
tv has viewed, with the deepest concern, the
desolating warfare which still RACES in those
regions and she has witnessed, with heartfelt
grief the severe distress and suffering which
that war has inflicted upon large class OF Her
Maiesty's subjects, but which have been borne
by them with great fortitude and exemplary re-
signatiOn. It is some consolation to Her Ma
jesty to be led to hope that this suffering and
this distress are rather diminishing than IN
. creaslng, and that some renewal OF employ
ment is beginning to take place III the manu-
. Iacturng districts. y
At thr opening of business in the Lords, the
Prince Of Wales took his seat for the first time:
with the tormalities usual on such occasions.
Earl Derby moved, and Earl Granard secon-
ded, the address IN response to the speech from
the throne.
], Earl Derby criticised the Queens speech at
. length. he spoke in congratulatory terms on
. the Prince Of Wales marriage. He said he
mad no objection to raise against the course the
Il government had adopted in regard to the
. American war, but he regretted that the gov
. ernment had not felt themselves justified in
}olMng the attempt in which they we're invited
!. oy france, not to intervene nor for the pur-
pose OF putting an end to the wal, but to OBJ
IAN by their good Offices, if possible, such an
5srmlstlce and cessation Of hostillties as would
!Gad the two parties themselves to reflect Oh
'll slle mlserles and hopelessness Of the war in
"l1ch nc they were engaged.
1here was considerable discussion Of Ameri-
Ian affairs both in and out of Parliament. The
. I'Ssq1rlectlon aS in Poland continued. The throne
y ureece still goes begging, the Duke Of
otI oIze Coburg having declined it. The news is
'of money!