The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-15 00:00:00

glisullana.

Tim tit:to/AN rot: r, HENRY HEINE, has for many years
past been struck with paralysis. Ills litub•, his laxly, his
features. even to his very eyelids, are lame, and to all pal-
poses like those of a dead man. Indeed it may lay said
that lain only lingers in the brain and tongue—the man is
a were corpse: the. poet alone survives. An exile from lo s
country for many long years past, and for many yeats past,
bit), a eettthe to illness in the back room of a small apar:•
Intuit in the Faubourg Poissootiere at Faris, the poet, vilatke
vaily flights of Cutey civateol a ucw Celt in ticrutato lyne•—•
and, one might almost say, in t;,11111111 politics and relign..n
—ll:is still been active; and, if not his best, at least Its
ti140.4t pungent books have issued from that his hg head s:•
tangled too a dead loooly, which keeps Its long etgtlß in the
heart of the !label of France.—Netr Qua rterly MTh-or.
Moil of the select committee appointed to take
into consideration the subject of assurance associations,
together with the vulumilattut) cviticuce, was publiAtcd
TuvA:ty hut.

OCTOBER 15, 1853.

The Parbonentu of Turin calettlates that ' kilometres
(about 330 English miles) of railwaY will be ePeu
to
circulation in Piedmont by next year. This result is the
most extraordinary. as the works hare not been in progress
wore than three years. The names of the lines are :
Turin and Genoa, 105 kil.; Alessandria and Novara, 100
kil.: Turin and Tessane, 05 kil.: Twin and Susa, re: kil.
Turin and l'iguerol. 36 kil. ; Mortara and
kil. Turin and Novara, 03 kil.
The works for the railway of Central Italy are being
unshed on with great activity. (heat and unforeseen
thihealtioa have, however, been met with, and three
large. an
many suuill tunnels are now found to be

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reuisite.
Lines of electric telegraph are now living established
between St. Petersburg and Warsaw, and from St.
Petersburg to Cronitadt. The latter line sill be very
difficult, in consequence of the numerous islands and
canals which it will hare to cross. SL Petersburg will
be made the ventral point of all the telegraph lines of
Russia. All the quartets of the capital are also to be
united by link.' of wire in the same manner as has been
done at Berlin.
A specimen of the ducking-stool is still preserved iu the
museum at Scarborough. It is said that there are persons
still living in the town who remember its services being
employed ehen it stood upon the old pier. It is a
substantial arm-chair of oak, ill' an lion bar extruding
from elbow to elbow, just as the wooden one is placed
in a child's chair to prevent the occupant trout falling

rward.
Et.vi %ItK 111 LE Escyrr: ratom PtosoN.—A convict., named
James I escaped in an awe ii i(( 11011111er fOOIU the
Sing-Sing prison. He made Ilia way under water !Ivan the
prison to • point about a mile distant, whore he went on
shore, and could not afterwards be found by the Alcoa of
the prison or the authorities. Ile neeemplished this by
means of it waterproof pipe, the lower end of which he held
in his mouth, while the upper end nay joined to a small
bag of air which looked like a duck, and Hooted upon the
surface of the water. this means he breathed while he
made his way slowly tinder water. After defying svial.lt
for some Week*, DUIIII Mettillitista ut the house of a
relation.
Her Majesty's atagl its commenced the tionsin ou
Monday last. The pack will, as usual, hunt the forest
country for the first two or three weeks, after which the
regular fixturea will be announced.
A West Indian paper of the Ist of August contains this
unusual announcement :—" The inclemency of the a eather,
yesterday, was such as to prevent our compositors from
attending at the ottiee, consequently no paper was issued
by us. Our readers will, of comet', excuse the omitution
under the circumstances."
The Etoperer of the French has conferred the order of
shevalier of the legion of Iloneur On NI. U. Guilwrt,
of
!helically, the pivainstiT of the enterprise sif it HOC Of Vi.i.,c1.4
lit`tWVl'll that place snit Paris, of Willett the Sub., now in
the Seine. is the Oran, efatrier.
The Submarine and European Telegraph Companies
have opened an office at Gravesend.
Twenty-seven French and foreign arclibiahops and
bishops and their cardinals were present on NVednesalay at
Amiens at the removal of the relies of St. Theislosia.
'l'll4. French Minister of Finance has authorised M.
'lnland, the spline of the agentede-chauge, to make rut
arrangement with the chairman of the stockbrokers of
Loudon for the simultaneous publication the sante day,
during I 14nirse henna, at Paris and London, of the public
funds. These quotations are to he officially placarded.
The first stone of a building for ragged schools was laid
in Southampbin en Thursday. The edifice will cost be-
tweet' Is l'll. and 7001., and about ritStf. has been subscribed
towards it.
lnimense stores of grain are collected in Odessa and
the Danubian 'sorts in anticipation of purebasers. thlessa
contains 11101* than 1,200,0011 quarters of various kinds of
grain, while at tialats and Ibraila the magazines are en-
tirely tilled; and corn is piled in the open streets, render
ing them in some places impassable.
The Grand Council of Zurich has authorised the Co.
vermnent to subscribe, in the mime of the canton. for
I plat shares, value 5410.0110 frames, in the 54,1084:14. t
Swiss Hallway, on condition that the municipal council of
Zurich should subscribe a similar amount to the same
undertaking.