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Anxious to be in a Row.

--The Irish people are assuredly the most bellicose of men. It is not enough that they should recruit the armies of President Lincoln in a quarrel with which they certainly have nothing to do, but already they are designing an intervention in the Dane German conflict. A gentleman of Cork, well known from his professional abilities, his social eminence, and his success in the hunting field, has written to the King of Denmark, offering the services of a hundred Irish gentlemen in the war, the corps to be called the "Alexandria Cont Guards, " In honor of the Princess of Wales. These heroes are all to be men of good position, to equip and mount themselves, to wear uniform of the national colors, and to exhibit the metro "Right against Might," thus exactly reversing the watchword of their brethren in the Federal ranks To improve the idea, the projector has written to the Prince of Wales to ask his sanction for the movement. Sixty-four gentlemen have already agreed to take part in the enterprise, but the names are at present wisely concealed. A ball is to be given the night before the troop leaves, and on the following morning at six o'clock the men will mount and ride to Queenstown, where they will embark on board of a Danish frigate. Many horses have been purchased, and the uniform has been determined. Whatever be the success of the scheme, it will at least afford another opportunity for exercising the powers of the Foreign Enlistment Act.

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