Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1844-02-22
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No less than two thousand four hundred
md f(ty.o one acts Of Parliament have hc'h
passed by the BRUSH Parliament from 1914
To 1912.
The expenses of tho city Of Now YORK. tor
the wear IS4i are estimated at S;},IIO 6'}6 ~
ot which $4,000 arc 10 he met by the rrve-
hue of the city, aud S2213 0l3 Ol by taxa
tiop. about one per cent. on the valuation.
Upwards Of seventy members of the House
of Representatives at Washington, %. C)
have pledged themselves to total abstinence.
The agricultural papers vt Great Br'aln,
say that IN five years, owing To the "rea' I'M
provements now going on there III inc cut
turs Of wheat that England viii export hour.
In Santa Fe (Mrxico) they punlah conrter-
Geitcrs by cutting their hands off. They can
never counterfeit after the first detection.
The United States government pay at pre-
sent over five hundred thousand dollars to
various railroads within its limits, Tor trnns-
portailon OF mails.
In ,G3l there was law in Massachusetts
imposing q fine of five sbhlings on every one
who kept Christmas.
Some literary ladies being nskcd how hey
couId be sufficiently interested in astronomy
To spend so much time III watching The heav-
ems, replied that they had great curiosity
20 see whether there was really a man III lhe
moon
Affections. like conscience, ar" rathe! tf
bo led than drawn; and it is to be tearcC
they who marry where they do not love, "lI
love where they do not marry.
In no country is the power Of wealth more
opprpsslvely exerted than IN our own, say
Ch,ef Justice Gibson OF Pennsylvania.
As the last drop makes pitcher run over
80 il is popping the question with consum
mates cOuttshp.
The Roman Catholics have in India. ChInp
md the West of Asa, sixty nine bishops
twenty coadiutors, eighteen hundred and fifty
six priests, and two million two hundred an
eleven thousand mcmbers. Three prlesi'
as many monks eighteen ccclcsiOstcal stu
dents. aud four nuns, are abnnt 10 proccc
from Ireland on a mission TO ludIa.
The Republic Of Mexico now conta in
about even millions OF inhabitants. VI theS
only one million are whites-four million
nre Indians.-the rest blacks, Mestizos, et
Out Of these seven millions, only seven hur
dred thousand Of all classes can read an
write. The city Of Mexico contains popI
la,on of about two hundred thousand.
From an official return just presented
the British Government, 1t appears, that sine
the wear 1929, no less than forty five thot
sand new houses, forming seven hundred an
fky new streets and squares, have bee
erected, or are in the course Of building,
London aud It's suburbs.
D,pRAvIrY.-A report presented to III
BOARD Of Aldermen ~ New York city, say
there are three hundred and fifty houses
IN fame in one ward alone and that major
~ the owners of the houses devoted
such inIamy are considered as worthy, n
snectab.e aud pons men. The high rcn
which houses ol t- kind pay are probab
the mo,iye which iudnccs the owners TO l
them to such purposes.
The Emperor ol Russia has resorted TO
pip,ntic act nl lcspotlsm directed against i
Jewish subirci. Under some vague pr
tcnce tina, thny had hccn guilty. oi smnggllr
and pcrsu,dng his soldiers to desert, he h
issncd an lmpcrial ukase' banlshng u
lows from all parts of hs domlnon1 bordc
inc on Austria and PRUSSIA; thus, with
stroke IT the p"u, cxpelllng SOME three hu
Jrcd thousand individuals from house Al
hnmr.
There arc upwards of 6vc hundred Jot
nsla ~ China cnnsecraled exclusively To u
musical art, and almost all the consldera5
csrhpls contain two or more theatres J
operas.