Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-09-25

TrEMs OF FoRE1G1 ssws.-Ihe Man.
che ter papers STATE that the number OF
mi listers of religion, who have already
sir, nified their intention Of becoming pre-
8 mt at the conference on the corn laws,
bout to be t:eId in that town is $40. The
number will probably swell to from $50
to 100 by Tuesday, on which day the sit
ting of the conference commences.
On the 18th July, the heavy rains had
so loosened the earth somewhere amid the
mountains of Switzerland, that a whe!.
grove of trees became attached, and, slow
ly sliding down. completely planted Itself
ON a field of oats, whichit entirely covered.
The Grand Duke Of ! tuscany has insti-
tuted a silk fair, which is to be held in Flo
renee in the latter part of September in
each year, the ooh of next September be-
ing appointed for the commencement,
when it is TO continue open till the follow
ing Saturday.
Lord Palnaerston has announced to the
Anti-SIavery Society, that gosernmsnt
will appoint no persons to offices under the
crown, where slavery and the siave-trat-
exists, who are not decidedly opposed 10
those systems of crime.
All the accounts received from AsEatIc
Turkey, concur in describing the harvest
as the most abundant remembered for ser
eraI wears.
The t~horoughfare ofthe Thames tunnel
IS almost completed, the Directors having
passed through It.
1t is most probable that Lord Lyndhurst
will resume the seals. His lordship, We
understand, declines to 20 as Ambassador
to Paris.
4 monument is about to be erected i,
Paris to the memory of Moiiere. The Il
ties of the different comedies will be in
scribed on the pedestal. 1t IS expectea
that the Inauguration of the monument
n1av take place on the. 17th February,
1912, the anniversary OF Mo!ierefs deata--
More than 4i,O00 pounds Of salmca
was shipped for London in the course u
one week, from a single river in Scotland,
ythe T'ay,} last July. The month hrs
been the most successful of any for manv
years.
u IFofEl OitiEEE WIVES AAtttIc W SLY ktS
Shah OF Persia cuts of heads at the rate nj
thirty or forty per day: Pleasant country.
At the Gulidhall, London, on Wed At :.
day, no less than four individuals V ere,
brought before Alderman Kelly. WHO had
committed offences for the mere pr .rDose
of gaining the Temporary shelter of n sta
ton house, and the chance ot a crust OF
bread.
The passage from Vienna t. Constant.
nople may now, BY the force of steam. be
made In fourteen days.
The Paris and Rouen r. 4lway, is pro-
eeeding rapidly under the superintendent
OF Mr.. Lock: and we u lderstand that 81
miles Of the Paris eD1 of the line will b.
opered eatiy in the s.pring of next year,
The French 81 .niral, I~.asusse, saiIed
from Tonlon fFf the Levant on the sth
ult., to unite ~ Ter his command all the
French ships i wal in those seas. Re
ports OF thf. 'aociining health CT the sultan,
and OF TIE spread oil lnsurreotlon in Syria,
have lie Co this step.
Fr,fA the extent OF the Netsh ecal fields
1t b1>. been calculated thai they would sup
py England with coal for $500 years al
, ter all the English miaes are exhausted.
4 dreadful calamity has Just visited tie
town of Smyrna, and plunged 2o,0G0 OF
its inhabitants Ii, desolatlon and misery.
4 terrible fire, such as id the memory OF
man was never knewn in this country, has
destroyed in the space Of 10 hours, nearly
4 yP "A 49, - -Ifh -s-- NN lNo
persons. A third OF the Turkish town, al
the Jews quarter, several h~azaars, among
> which were those of the gottsn,iths, the
grain dealers, me the makers, the sadlers
the confectloners, the clothes dealers, tbs
druggists, &C., u great number OF mosques
= even svnaso.ass, and 9oao 10 la,o0G
houses, were r2d4ced to ashes.