Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-01-26
Foreign News.

The British Parliament raaS~..ntc- on tn.
9Th ofFebruary.
A report has been cnrreut thar the Duke %
Cambridge has resigned his commission %
Commander To- Chief Of th; Army, bar i! i,
positively consradicteG
The miners Of Chh:hirr Lanclahilr and
North Wales have struck for reduction Of the
day. work to eight hours.
The Bishop OF Oxford waa cjnI"cratei at
Westminster Abbey yesterday the Greek
Archbishop Lycurgus was present
Announcements ere out for workman :
meeting to promote the closer unon ct Englan.i
aud the colonies. Earl Grey is to preside Messys
Ruskin and Froude will make speeches.
Charles Thornton, an American and merchant
of Bradford, Yorkshire, committed suicide there
yesterday. The particulars are uni nown.
The proposition for the exclusion NJ the
House of Bourbon from the Spanish throne
came before the Cortes yesterday Tor final ac.
ton, and was the occasion o. an exciting de
bate. General Pnm participated and made o
personal statement. Ia the course Of Ei& re-
marks he declared the proposition urius, to ex
clude all the Bourbons. He designed to ey
plain that hia words were not designed parlc
ularly TO favor the Duke dc MontpcnS;er; he
would 90 with the ma jority, whoever mi ght he
chosen. At length a vote was reached, and the
proposal was rejected by large msioriig-- yeas
50, nays Isl.
The report that the Duke dc h,ontpcnsier
has been returned TO the Cortes from Oveido
was premature. as the election there has rot
ended. The Republican candidate running
against tie Duke de Mlon;pensier Is now ahead.
and the defeat o. the latter is considered car-
tain. Elections Gre still in progress elsewhere
10 fill the vacancies in the CorteS. La Madrid
M .,,,(D i,, ft,r,
seat of Marshal Serrano. At the closing ol the
publican candidate, Gulssalns had $1,000 and
the CarIst candidate 5000. The elections
continue three days longer.
The strike among the miners and operators
st La Creuzot has ended and order has been
restored. Carlyle, Mill and Tennvson express
sympathy with the movement.
The French Stock Board has placed the
Dominican loan negotiated last YEAR hT PrrS-
jent Baez, on its list.
At the trial ofPrnc, Pierre honaparre, De.
putty Gambeta will appear tar the family OF
Victor Noir
CONGRESS In the u. s. Senate yesterday
Mr.. Sherman reported bill designed to pro.
vide that the tax shall rot be continued on in
comes, dividends anu salaries after the close of
the present year, cut tsSes n arrears at that
time shall be collected during 1871. The SEN
ate further considered Mr. Shermans bill to
increase the national banking circulation and
provide national currency OF coin notes. Sen
ators Sherman, FeDton, Morton and others ez.
pressed their views upon the financial aspect
Of national affairs.
Ia the House Of Representatives yesterday
u communication was received from the Pfesl.
dent stating that the expenses OF the expedl-
ton tor the survey of the Darien Canal are to
be paid out OF m appropriation Of $40, 00Q
which was made in 1866. The contested cleo
ton case Of 4. S. Wallace vs.. ". Il. Simpson,
from the Fourth District Of South Carolina,
was brought up and minority report, declaring
neither entitled to the seat, was laid on the
table. The House he'd night Sc: sion for de-
bate only.
A writer in the Richmond Wing suggests.
among others, Judge 4. l.. &. Moncure,
Of Stafford. as one Of the Judges Of the su
creme Court of the State,