Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-05-08
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Tho Postmaster General of England has de-
lined on abolishing the whole Of the privi-
e,as enioyed by the clerks of the Post-office as
Nsards the transmission or dealing in newspa-
I. ~ whether English or foreign. No other
pe '., of persons will be allowed an exclusive
S.;s;leoe with regard to such trade, which will
Pacome entirely open and free in every respect
%hsse privileges ceased, so far as English news
iansrs and the circulation of them within the
United Kingdom are concerned, on the otn OF
snr;I last The transmission and supply OF TO-
APar, newspapers abroad, as well as the sup
lIT If foreign newspapers from all parts of the
P ug1rld will cease to be included in the Post-of-
Co privileges at periods varying according to
.hs distance from which such papers are to be
OStaned or to which they are required to be
.ant which periods are not yet, we believe, de-
6nitely settled A compensation is proposed to
ha made to the clerks of the Post-office only in
those cases wherein their privileges, as in the
instance of foreign newspapers, are established
nv an Act of Parliament. Hereafter any Post
office clerk dealing in newspapers will be dis
missed.
The belief in witchcraft appears to be notyet
extinct. even amongst those who can write, and
therefore read. The Mayor of Yarmouth late
" received letter from LoweStoft, the writer
If which complains that he is bewitched by a
woman living in one ofthe rows near St.George's
Chanel: that he can get no rest, night nor day,
sitting. standing, or walking, and that even at
church he can find no comfort. He therefore
humbly implores the Mayor TO have his torment
or examined!
The directors of the Liverpool and Manches-
ter railway are about having the carriages light
ed with portable gas one of the best class has
been fitted up as an experiment. and has been
running for some time with complete success.
This arrangement, when carried into effect,
will add much to the comfort of the passengers;
particularly to ladies, not only In travelling al
Ter dark, but in going through the tunnels
Wine an China-The Chinese are said to
make a small quantity of wine, though they pre-
fer the produce of the still from animal flesh, as
in their spirit offambs flesh said to be very po-
tent and disagreeabe They have rice wine
called Sam Zou. The Chinese say that under
the Emperor Yu, or Ta-Yu, twenty-five years
before Christ, wine was invented by an agrl-
culturist named I-tye. The government OF that
time however, laid what are now called heavy
probibitory duties upon it, not with the MERGE
nary and ignoble motive of modern rulers, to
fill their pockets, but lest the people should grow
efeminate from the use Of so delicious beve-
rage.
Machine for .Subterraneous Correspondence
NJ. M. Jocard and Steldorff have recently OBJ
tanned from the Belgian government patent
for a newly invented instrument, called the Lo-
gophore, by means of which it is said that ver-
bal correspence may be carried on from one
place TO another, however distant. A practical
Bile application ingenious invention is to be
Immediately made between Brussels & Anwerp,
by means Of subterTaneous pipes, which will
transmit words uttefeu by voices from place to
place. at intervals of two miles. Thus IN less
than quarter of an hour question be ask
ed & answered between the royal Palace at Brus-
sells and the Castle at Lacken. The expence
willnot exceed fifteen or twenty thousand francs
The Carniral-A private letter frome Rome
states that the Pope had removed the interdlcton
put upon the carnival, and that the delighted
Romans were preparing for the pleasures OF
that Joyous season.
The Emperor Of Austria has conferred the
Order Of the Iron Crown, second class, on the
Irish Peer Lord Kingsborough.