Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-12-11
Foreign News.

| Presidents Message. In reference to the Ala
ALBANIA claims, it declares that the English
| Government has shown every desire tomake an
arrangement and hopes that neither our Cabl-
net nor Congress will overthrow the settlement
arrived at after long and laborious negotiations
| The new Parliament was opened last evening
by royal commission The House of Commons
re elected Mr.. Denison as Speaker. The mem
bers of the new Ministry have had an audience
with the Queen and formally accepted their
respective posts. Another OF the missing
boats of the steamer Hibernia has reached port.
The boat contained only the second officer OF
the steamer and two others, twenty-five out OF
the twenty. eight who embarked in it when the
steamer was abandoned, having been lost by
the subsequent capsizIng of the boat.
A two days armistce has been agreed upon
| in Cadz, in Spain, to bury the dead and allow
non-eombatants to leave the city. at the end
of the armistice combined attack was to be
made by the feet and the Government troops,
but as the insurgents have demanded terms
the attack will probably not be made. Some
| dispatches represent the insurrection as reac-
tionary, and not really in the interest OF Re
pubEcansm. -
| Paris dispatches state that the Emperor Ma
poleon will shortly formally recognize the Am
bassador sent by the Provisional Government
of Spain
The Emperor of Austria has closed the Hun.
| garian Diet with Speech in which he declared
| the recently passed Army bill a pledge tor the
| integrity of the Kingdom and the continuance
OF peace.
The Sultan of Turkey has sent an ultimatum
to the Grecian Government, requiring an an,
swer in five days. 1t is said that France and
| England will sustain the demand.
WASHINGTON ITEMS. "A driver employed
by the Virginia Express Company has disap-
peared, having in his possession nearly 500,
collected from merchants in this city on goods
| delivered by him. The agants OF the company
| in the District Messrs. j. L. Coldwell q Co.,)
| have taken every measure to discover his where
abouts. without avail; and controversy has
arisen between the agents and the president OF
the company as to whether the Express Com
pany should repair the loss or look to the
agents to do so out of their own pockets. This
variance has ended in Messrs. Codwell 4 Co.
leaving the Express Company.
In the Senate, yesterday, MIR. Sherman in
| troduced bill to incorporate the National juno
ton Railway Company, which was referred to
the Committee on the District OF Columbia.
| The road is to commence at the Aqueduct
Bridge, and tunneing College Hill and cross
ing Rock Creek, run around the city of Wash
ington to some point on the Eastern Branch,
near the Navy Yard. The capital stock is fixed
at $50O,O00 The Company is debarred from
granting exclusive privileges to any connecting
road or to any corporation whatever.
MONETARY INSANITY. The jury in the
case OF Cole, tried at Albany, for the murder
OF Hiscock, has capped the climax of absurdity
in relation to the doctrine of insanity, by de-
caring that Cole was sane the moment before
he killed his man and the moment afterward,
but that their minds were in sore agitation and
| affection to determine whether he was insane
at the moment when he fired the fatal bullet.
The Judge instead OF endeavoring to repel
the consequences of such palteriDg with prin-
ciples which are plain to every person possess.
ing common sense, told them that If they had
a doubt, the prisoner should have the benefit
of it. Encouraged by such remarkable judi,
ca expression as this, which, in fact was all
the excuse that they needed, they brought IN
verdict of not guilty. 1t therefore seems by
this remarkable opinion that Cole was sane the
moment before he fired the pistol, he was raw
ing crazy when he fired it, not knowing what
he was about, and recovered his senses the
moment his victim fell. This remarkable dis
covery of momentary insanity, preceded and
followed by sanity, is really the most extraor
binary development of the age.-Phit0. In
quirer.
| a YOUNG GIRL KILLED BY WHISKEY.-