The Arkansas advocate., 1835-02-13
FOREIGN ITEMS.


 FOREIG.N ITEMS.
 Tuthes in Ireland. --The ferociousness with which the poor catholic peasantry of Ireland afe hunted down by inexofabie par sons for the payment of tythes, must be re- volting to the feelings of every christian. The military and civil authorities recently secured Kilkenny for this purpose, but the green-coated gentry succeeded only in caps turing poor goat. The Rev. Mr. Locke, at Newcastle, tlreland,9 is perfect Nim- rod. Aided by the military, he is daily bringing into that place sstroops of horses, COWS, pigs, goats, furniture, and geese" which he purchases in himself at mere song! Some honorable exceptions to this brutality occur among the lay proprietors.
 N. Y. Star. A woman al Ennis, Ireland, lately poi. soned herself from despondency brought OH by extreme poverty. Poor wretched Ire- land! When will thy cup of bitterness be exhaustedl-[ Ib..
 On one or two occasions, when the king and queen of England have made their ap- pearance at London, in public, since they appointed Wellington yice-gerent of the kingdom, they have been received with his- ses and groans, rather ominous and grating sounds. particularly within the neighbor- hood of Charing Cross and the statue of Charles L. Ib.
 II is surmised that if the ultra tory minis- try of Wellington should fail, the king will form one of uncompromising reform, with earl Durham as premier, and O'Connell and Hume as members.-Ib. By the report of the Chamber of Peers of France, on the instruction at Lyons, 1t ap- pears that there were three entire regiments of cavalry at Lunevile, implicated in tho conspiracy, and ready to march 10 Paris. We should not be surprised if a great DOT ton of the army and nearly all of the na- tional guards are al this moment medtating the same purpose VI lb.
 By late experiment 1t Is found that rail road cars, rigged with sails, will go, with favorable wind. at the rate of or 10 miles an hour,-[l [lb.
 Such has been tho mildness of the autumn l in Worcester, in England that some pear trees have produced three distinct crops of fruit.-[Ib,
 Capt Ross, the hero Of the north, has at Ilength discovered something in England even more attractive than that which he reached during his last exredition. The worthy Captain has recently married very young and accomplished iady. Why there has been no official announcement of their union, m the newspapers, we cannot say. With Capt. M'Heath, the great Discoverer may sing
 'sWere laid on Green!and's coast, Be-" LiJcrty of the Press in Fyance. Tho Tribune paper has been seized for the IO4th time.
 Patriotism of the ladiss.-About forty of the youngest prettiest ladies of Frankfort in Germany, all of whom belonged to the so- ciety for the relief of the Poles, were re- gently found implicated in procuring tho escape of several prisoners confined for poe litical offences. They sent saws and files to the prisoners, wrapped up in pies and cakes-a specimen of femenine tact and spirit worthy of all praise.-[ Noah.
 he yiHdSeIs Oi rei0SDerg, Tn the canton of the Grisons. have been greatly alarmed of late by frightfnl crackings, which pro- ceeded from the rocks, winch rise to height of four thousand feet above the yil- age, and threaten it's destruction by masses of falling rock, which have already begun to detach themselves.
 The failare of the harvest iii Poland threatens that unfortunate country with fa- mine, in addition to the political and militia ry oppression under which she is grooming. Neither Prussia, Belgium, Hamburg, Bremen, Tor Oldenburg have a single vessel of war, yet their commerce Is every where secure.
 Greece has been tranq.,i!izea by he. gency, but is impoverished by their prodi- galty. In 8 months they wilIresign their power to the King, after having expended 40 millions of francs, leaving that classic land without an army or fleet, schools or tri- bunals. lib.