Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1835-01-07

% During this century, England has acquired
the Cape, Ceylon, Curacao, Demerara, ST. Eus-
tatius, MaurItius, Bourbon, Madeira, Malta.
Martinique, Senegal and Surinem-s"veral OF
which have been coded. But what are these
and what her conquests in Egypt?-what her
successful warfare at Nepaul or in the Burmese
countTy?-what her wonderful extension OF Ter
ritory in India?-what lieI capture of Algiers2
what her sovereignty ofthe lonian islands,
what the recolections of The share she has borne
in the glories of the world, under Providence,
compared with the strides she has made in art
science and mechanism since 1900 :.
In 1900 would any man have believed-and
in 1900 men fancied they travelled at most ex'
traordinary pace would any man have believ-
ed that he could leave London in stage coach
in the morning, and eat his supper by eleven at
night in Mancbester2-or ii his credulity could
have been stretched so as to admit OF such
possibility, would he have suffered himself to
be told with impunty, that if he chose, instead
of suppng at Manchester, he might proceed to
Liverpool in one hour and three quarters-a
distance of thirty miles that he might steam
himself over to Dublin in time for breakfast the
next morning, all OF which he may now do, sup
posing the cOnveyances ready?-but as II IS,
without any hurry or trouble, a man breakfasts
at the Bull and Mouth in London on Monday,
and breakfasts in Dublin on the Wednesday &C
cording to the ordinary and established rule OF
Well then, say We, this introduction OF steam,
or rather its adaptation to vessels and loCom0-
tive carriages has becn-and il is in its infancy
yet-one of the greatest strides in so short
space Of time. Next comes gas Let any bo-
DIV read MIR Davies Glddy's, now Mr.. Davies
G bert's, formal denunciation in the House OF
Commons of the bare idea of obtaining light
and profit from gas, and the case will be made
as strong as we can wish il. Not only is the
use of gas as light universal, but it any body
will take the trouble, or rather give themselves
the pleasure, of visiting the Gallery of National
Sciences, in the Lowlher Arcade they will find
cookery performed by gas in the most perfect
and satisfactory manner.
Within the present century. vaccination has
superseded, nay anninilated. that tremendous
affection the small pnx-an event to which the
general increase of the population may, in de-
gree, he attributed. despite the evidence 10 the
contrary afforded in the maudlin report of the
Drunken Parliamentary Committee OF the pre-
sent year. Again, reducing, as we must, our
sphere of observation, for want OF room let US
look at our own metropolis within the present
century; novels and alleys have disappeared
and palaces and terraces risen in their places.
Look at those splendid bridges Waterloo and
London-the vast iron bridge across the Thames
in the city, and the extremely useful one at
Vauxhall-see those stupendous works, theW West
India Docks, East India Docks, London Docks,
erected within this century-the magnificent
Custom House, the healthy and spacious Bed
lams, the London University, the Kings Col
lege. Within this century, Ranelagh has va
nished from the earth; the Pantheon has become
bazaar; every theatre in London, except the
Opera House, which has just risen from con-
fagraton has either been burnt or pulled down;
Covent garden, Drury lane, the English Opera
House, the Surry Theatre once, and Astley's
twice, have been burnt and rebuilt-the Hay
market pulled down, the Royalty pulled down,
both rebuilt and the latter, under title Of the
Brunswick, destroyed.in the twinkng of an eye.
Carlton House, with all its spiendor and gale,
ties. and all the associations OF wit and mrth,
has, with the noble and joyous company which
made its walls ring with festivity, vanished
The Prince! Fox, Sheridan, Fitzpatrick, Hang.
err, ErSkine, the Duke Of Norfolk and fifty
others, are in their graveS-the scene OF their
revels exists no more-splend terraces and
magnificent squares occupy its site. The wretch
ed streets between Pail mall and Oxford street
have given place to grand and commodous
drives and promenades.
The interior Of st. James, Park which was
swampy meadow for the dull diversion of smoke
dried cows, has become a beautiful garden; and
Buckiugham's house, built in the full uniform OF
bad TASTE red with white facings,' has given
place to a palace much censured originally, and
iatterly much disfgured; but which still is pa
lace worthy of the country. In the Regents
Park, groves, canals, villas, parades dioramas,
(what did we know of dioramas in 1S00O cres-
cents and terraces, ranges Of splendid buildings
occupy a space previously monopolised by
grazing cattle; while nayigable canal, which
circumvents London and forms military ditch
round her assailable parts in case of rebellion,
brings all the commodities Of the world floating
TO the very doors Of warehouses in the most ill.,
land part Of the metropolis.
In order to tranquillze the country, we have
fifteen judges instead of" the t~elve'-we have
also "a yce-chancellOr'' to moderate the ri
gors of the law; and We have, what is more to
the point, Sir Somebody Macadam, who by
breaking the stones over which we used to ira
vel, has more successfully conduced 10 tranquil
ize the town than any thing else in the world,
except, perhaps, the New Metropolitan Police,
which has utterly and entirely extermiDated the
ancient race of wutchmen, except, we believe,
in the case of one deluded old veteran, who, un
der the special auspices Of the Protestant Bishop
of London, and the Popi>h Duke of Norfolk,
still continues to howl at the moon in st Jamess
square, In consequence ofthe REORGANIZATION,
the Londoners no longer measure distances by