The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-06-08
Foreign and Domestic Gleanings.
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A public meeting was TO be held i'll Lon
don to relieve the manufacturers.
Some French Bishops had waited on the
King of France to contlole with him on the
progress of vice and immortality, and partc-
ularly of free opinions in France. They were
received with marked distinction, and the
King pledged himself to ADOPT the sugges-
tions which were privately made by them to
him in his Cabinet.
| 1t is now understood that the session of
the Panama Congress will be deferred un-
til October next, owing to the approach Of
what is called the sickly season Mr.. Ser
geant, and the Secretary of Legation, Mr..
Rochester, will therefore spend the summer
in the U. States.
During a recent thunder storm near Rich
! mond, man and his child took refuge un-
der tree from the rain. A flash of light
ming struck the tree, and killed the father,
but the child which he held in his arms was
not injured. After he fell the child made its
way more than hundred yards, and said its
| father was asleep.
A new and curious carriage has been built
| in London for peerof France. 1t was made
so as to carry treble the usual number of
| persons without any material difference III
the size from that of the common descrip-
| tion of coaches
| II BRIGHT 6ov,-An old schoolmaster, who
usually heard his pupils once week, thro'
| Watts Scripture History, and afterwards
asked them promiscuously such questions as
suggested themselves to his mind one day
desired young urchin to tell him who Jesse
was9 when the boy briskly replied, "thc
flower of Dumblane."
The legislature of Connecticut has passed
l tbf,,i OH LOTT tn nj q ba i'm
of 81 900 for the purpose of erecting mo-
nument on Groton heights, where the brave
Ledyard and his companions fell in the re-
volutonary war, beneath the treacherous
blows of their own surrendered weapons.
A work entitled " Glance at the internal
situation of the United States of America,
and their political relations with Europe, BY
a Russian" is announced as having been
lately published in London. Say you sos
Beauchamp. whose trial for the murder of
Col. Sharpe, has excited SO much attention
I in Kentucky, has been found guilty, and SEN
fenced to be hanged on the 9TH of July next.
1t is said that Mrs. Beauchamp has been ac-
quilted.
The Norfolk Beacon informs us that the
U. S. ship John Adams, Capt. Wilkinson,
from Havana. for Carthagena, was seen off
the Isle of Pines, on the 25th April.
The U. S. ship Hornet, Capt Woodhousc,
was spoken in latitude 49, long. 81, So
j A Mr.. Sweetlove has applied to the Con-
nectcut Legislature, and obtained the pas
sage of bill changing his name to Shelton.
The charter of the old Concord Bank in
". Hampshire, will expire by its own limi-
!, tation. on the 1st of July; and all bills not
presented before that time for payment will
be lost to the holders.
The aggregate of pupils in the schools OF
Boston, is 1o,4S6, OF which 7,o44 arc in the
public, and 1892 in private schools. The
: annual expense is S152,722; of which india
vi,luals pay 97,305, and the city S55,417
The number of schools is 2l5.
The citizens of Boston are making spirit
ed exertions to organize the Society for the
: promotion of Manufactures and the Mocha
mic Arts, which has been Incorporated in the
4 State. A meeting of members of the asso.
[: citation was to take place on Thursday las
for this purpose.
4 The sums subscribed for the benefit OF thu
! Episcopal Theological Seminary, to be es
/, tablished at New York, amount to s17,7l8
: Western Canal Flour is selling at Albany
$ for IS IS per barrel, and, owing to the ex
r treme depression in the Albany and New
T York markets, a considerable quantity
: the Genesee -four has been recently sent tt
Montreal.
The U. States troops from Sackett's Har
bour arrived at Lewistown on the 18th ult
y Those from Fort Niagara came up to tina
n place on the 18th; and on the following ga.
l. the whole proceeded on their march for But
. falo, where they embarked for Green Bay.
= Locusts.-In the vicinity of New Bruins
wick, millions of Locusts are said to nay
j. made their appearance. They are descrip
ed as making their way over the alread
g half-devoured vegetable kingdom, strippinl
= of their foliage and verdure alike the state
II ly tree and tender plant.
On lady's entering the assembly room !
r. York. Sterne asked her name; he was told