The Press.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

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AN ACTRESS of some celebrity on the Boulevards,
Mlle. Helen Gaussen, died lately on the passage
from Havre to San Francisco. According to com-
mon report she had a monomania for misappropri-
ating plate and jewellery. This propensity, however,
never• got her into serious trouble ; but she was ad-
dicted to politics of a reddish hue, and after the coup
d'etnt was sentenced to transportation. After a
lengthened imprisonment this sentence was corn-
muted into a permission to emigrate to California in
one of the boats sent out by the proceeds of the
Lingot d'or lottery.
NEWSPAPERS begin to abound in Madrid. Two new
ones, La Union Liberal and El Si9lo XIX., have just
appeared. Senor Iglesias, the editor of the Europa,
also of recent appearance, is appointed Civil Governor
of Logrono. The journals at present published in that
capital are El Clamor Publico, El Dtario Espanol,
El Tribuno, La Esperanza, La Nacional, El Espar-
terista, La Union, La Europa, La Espana, Las
Novedades, La Nacion, La Epoca, La Iberia, El
Catolico, El Miliciano, La Independencia, and El
Guardia. An ultra-liberal journal, called the Liberal,
was started, but only four numbers were published ;
and of the Eco de la Revolucion, a socialist journal,
only one number appeared. The Herald.), the
Boletin del Pueblo, and the Mensagero, organs of the
late Cabinet, have ceased to exist.
THE Belgian.Moniteur announces that a convention
was signed on the 12th of this month at London
guaranteeing literary and artistic property between
Great Britain and Belgium, and for regulating the
tariffs of books, engravings, music, &c., iniported from
one country into the other. This convention will be
presented to the Chambers at the opening of the
session.

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THE following States have expressed their intention
of taking part in the Universal Exhibition to be held
at Paris next year :—Austria, Bavaria, Belgium,
Bremen, Denmark, Frankfort, Great Britain, Greece,
Hamburg, Hanover, Hesse Darmstadt, Holland,
Lubeck, Morocco, ecklenburg-Schwerin, Mexico,
Naples, Peru, Portugal, Rome, Sardinia, Saxony,
Saxe Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Weimar, Spain, Sweden
and Norway, Switzerland, Tunis, Turkey, Tuscany,
and the United States. The only States of any im-
portance which do not appear on the list are Russia,
and, strangely enough, Prussia. The Fine Arts De-
partment of the Exhibition will be held in those
portions of the Louvre which are nearly completed,
d 1 which are rapidly approaching completion. The
entire space at the disposal of the French Commis-
sion is about 900,000 superficial teet fbr the industrial
section, of which 150,000 superficial feet have been
allotted to Great Britain, her colonies and depen-
dencies. The Fine Arts Department will consist of
about 130,000 superficial feet hanging space, of which
about one-tenth part will be allotted to this country,
together with a certain space for sculpture.
M. LEON PAILLET, one of the writers in the Paris
journal the Patrie, and a well-known literary man,
(lied of cholera on Sunday morning. General Bizot,
the commandant of the Polytechnic School, died on
Saturday last, after a very short illness.
THE BERLIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES recently
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Baron Alex-
ander von Humboldt's admission among that
learned body, which took place on the 4th of August,
1804. The day selected for this commemoration
was that of the Liebnitz festival.
A CERTAIN Dr. Ant.sel, of Long Island, U.S., has
invented a pulp which, in its raw state, will not cost
more than about one-sixth of a cent per pound, and,
by the aid of a machine invented by Mr. Nohlan,
can be brought into market, made into paper, at a
cost of about four cents per pound. Paper at pre-
sent costs about sixteen cents, so that the value of
the invention can at once be seen. The material
from which the pulp is manufactured will flourish
and grow abundantly in ground that is at present
useless to the farmer. It is as white and clear as
the most clearly-bleached cotton, is capable of the
most delicate tint, and maintains all the pliancy and
toughness of the pure linen rags.
THE Swabian Mercury announces, under the head
of Frankfort, that a new press law, in conformity
with that resolved by the Diet for federal States,
has been laid before the Chamber. Among other
features of this law is a necessity for journalists to
find securities in the following sums—those pub
lisping twice a week, 2,000 florins ; three to four,
4,000 ; and daily, 6,000 florins.
AMONGST the curiosities to be transmitted from
India to the Great Exhibition in Paris next year is a
carpet of ivory. It is twenty feet long by six feet
broad, and made of long strips of ivory, plaited like
matting. The price fixed upon it is 3001., and it may
yet become the fashion.