Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-08-16
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Lord Althorpe asserted in the House of Com
mons that many parts Of England would be I'M
able to take in their harvest but for the influx OF
Irish laborers.
DR.. William Schulz at Darmstadt, has been
condemned by court martial to five years i'm
prisonment for having written work on p" the
Unity of Germany" He could not have belong
ed to the unitarian philosophy OF our Kitchen
Cabinet politicians
Among new inventions to increase the pau.
perism of England we observe "portable
steam thrashing machine"
A woman named Mary Ann Barry, at
Southwark, London, was convicted OF" man
Slaughter for killing another female, named
Maria Drake.
The leaders Of the Regulator coach, on its
way to Carmarthen were severely lacerated,
ard one ofthem thrown down, by furious boar.
Two gentlemen walking in Edinburgh and
smoking cigars, some of the ashes fell on the
gown Of lady passing, and the flames might
have consumed her, but for the presence OF
mind of the gentleman accompanying her tax
ing off his coat and wrapping it around the UNI
fortunate LADY, She might, but for this, have
been a mere heap of ashes. like the wife of Ma
! ior Longbow, who was burnt up by sunbeam.
Singular good luck-An lrishman at Lime
rick. named Tuomy. 'on his way down to the
ship James for America, which was recently
lost, met a widow, who inqrlring where he was
going, told him he might perhaps do better
ut home" He took the hint, and forthwith
courted and married her, FORGETTING his passage
money. What is singular, two men are now IN
Jail for an attempted abduction Of the same wo-
man. We should call this curious concatena-
ton Of romantic incidents.
! A childish and spiteful system of warfare is
being carried on by the King Of Holland, by
nd fn
es, the poor Begic peasantry who happen In
advertently to step over the line OF his Dutch
majesty;s territory.
The Queen OF Spain has nominated the dig
nitaries Of the kingdom who are to constitute
the /" Proceres del Reno" viz: archbishops
| bishops, fifty Of the grandees, and number oil
the tituios of CASTLE, which latter are equiva.
lent to an English baronetagei only that the IT,
tie does not, as in the grandee, descend in the
female as well as male line. There are 1900 oil
these titulos in Spain. Some distinguished pri
vate citizens are to be added to the number, SO
as to make It amount to 1873, the number desig
mated for the popular branch.
| Among other results Of the disastrous expert.
ment Of Gen. Andrew Jackson, is sad decline
| in our trade to Constantinople; England now
supplying Turkey with rum, cotton stufts, indi
go, &C., for which she receives among other
things arool, which would have come to oul
manufacturers but for the mldew which oul
usurpers have shed upon every branch o.
our manufacturing as well as commercial and
agricultural industry. England now also ia Ike:
the Turkey opium to China. The total number
of British merchantmen that entered Constan
tnople from JAM to June 4th, was 81.
A Steamboats, nearly finished at Trieste, te
run between Constantinople and the towns or
the Danube, where steam navigation is ALREADY
in successful operation. This project is consl
dered a deadly blow to British trade in the hear
of Europe.
Awash ofthe chloride of lime has been fount
an sffectual remedy for the bite of an adder: i
| is recommended, also, for hydrophobia.
A woman in Easingwold work house was de
lvered of child born with four teeth! llk'
Richard HIN y Star.