Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-04-15
FOREIGN ITEMS.


tortion of the tythe system in Ireland, may be
given in Parish in Kilkenny, where there's on
ly one Protestant, and she woman. The inha-
bitants never having seen the clergyman, and
not knowing where he lives!
1t is lamentable to see the parliament of Eng
land after all the promises of the Reform minis
try, fittering away their time in puerile debates
upon the subject of marriage registers, by dis
senting clergymen, and other trivial matters,
while the monstrous and crying grievance of
the Coru Law, and other taxes, with which the
people are chained hand and foot and ground
down to the earth, worse than eastern serfs, are
left untouched and unnoticed.
When we hear such humiliatng expressions
as the following from members Of the English
parliament we can readily conceive how perfect
y imaginary is all their boasted independence.
In introducing BILL one member said he had
the consent Of the crown" Another, upon a
similar motion, "that government had no OBJ
lection" &c. Does not this vassalage sound
very much like something similar we have re
Gently been in the habit Of hearing from our own
woud-be dictators at Washington?
1t is said the repeal Of the malt tax, by break
ing up the gin and beer shops, or kidty- ,cinks,
as they are called and by enabling every Gotta
ger, as once was the case, to brew his own ale,
and that of pure quality, would almost produce
moral revolution in the Incorporate habits of
the English people.
One of the most notorious Hells" in London
is next door to the house Of the Bishop of that
metropolis. "Facilis descensus," &c.
A rector of Bishopsgave, London, enjoys
G25OO year, and is empowered by an act of
Parliament of 1925, in case of deficiency of his
income to seize on the property of 80 of the in
habtants This is as bad as "Marcy's mort
gage"
It is said Louis Philippe, is becoming so obi
Gus by playing into the hands of the Holy ALI
ance, that he will soon have to set out upon
his travels"
Sir William Ingiby, who appears to be the
Colonel Crockett of the British House of Com
mons, under the disguise of an equivoque, in.
duged during one of his harrangues, in a strain
of profanity which one would scarcely think
would be tolerated in any assemblage, much
less in grave, deliberate body. He proposed
to impose a tax on gentlemen who frequent
gambling houses, saying 81 they ought to take
out licences for the privilege of going to Help
Continued roars of laughter were Produced
Another remark of his had more point. He pro-
posed to lay an I" ad valorem" duty on all IL
ties from duke down to a knight.
The story of the lion and tiger breaking loose
and gobblingup some half a dozen men & sheep,
and which is now going the rounds of our pa
pers, proves a ridiculous hoax, as well as that
of the kangaroo getting into the wrong bed,
&c.--something like the New DIRK snake story.
A good joke is good thing; but when innocent
names are used in these practical jests, they re-
coil upon the heads of the inventors.
The Queen of Spain hesitates to call the Cor
tez, and to include the patriot Nina in the am
nesty to eXiles infatuated woman after all,
the prime minister La Rosa's influence for the
constitutional party turns out bagateile.
The subject of bringing the remains of Napo-
leon and his son into France, has been referred
to the Council of Ministers. Would not their
dead ashes be like the torch to mine of gun
POWDER in the present combustible state ofthat
devoted country?
The petitionro remove the act of exclusion
against the Bonaparte family has received the
goby in the Chambers. Marshal SouIt, for
sooth, admitted they were without reproach but
they formed he said points characterization for
the schemes of intrguers--N Y. Star