Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-12-27
Latest Foreign News.

ris and Rouen is now complete.
The authorities of Denmark have
adopted the guilIotine as the instru-
ment of capital punishment hence
forth.
Letters from Pisa state that lbrahim
Pacha is improving in health.
The supply of silk from China, du-
ring the present year, has been H.
900 to $4,000 bales.
The London papers have been spec
ulating on the probability of warlikc
movement in India.
The Duke of Wellington has sent
out orders to abolish temperance and
all other societies in her Majesty s reg
iments.
The French Government are send
ing 10000 men to Algiers, not $4,000
as currently reported.
The happiest results have attended
the efforts made for the purpose of in
Producing silkworms into Prussia.
The remains Of a Roman villa have
been recently Discovered near Oxford.
Sir Richard Vivyan has denied that
he is the author Of the Last Vestiges
of Creation.
A new daily paper, it is said, will
shortly be started in London with Boz,
Charles Dickens, rs editor.
The State prisons of Rome are re-
ported to be filled with 1000 prisoners,
many of them Of the first families
The di.allections Of the people there
are not yet settled.
The Lords Commissioners Of the
Admiralty have at length determined
that Woolwich Dock Yard, the first
naval and most ancient port in Europe,
shall Immediately be placed in state
of fertilization.
The King of Sweden has appointed
Mr.. Mordin, who has hitherto been
Swedish Charge d'Affaires and Consul
General in the United States of Amer
lea, to be his Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary at the
Court of st. Petersburgh.
Such is the excitement in railway
matters that gentleman being sudden
ly asked by friend who met him,
"How do you do2" replied" SO to g."
A Mr.. Talbot has taken out new
patent for new power based on the
condensation Of carbonic acid gas. BY
chemical means and great pressure, the
carbonic acid is brought down to a
Temperature below the freezing point.
Heat is then applied, when its expan-
sive power, Mr.. Talbot AYERS, exceeds
that OF steam, while the great weight
Of tho furnace, .sco., !. dispensed with.
A sanguinary conflict is said TO have
taken place on first and second ult., on
the frontiers of Romagna, between the
Swiss and the Pontifcal troops. Italy
is in very unsettled state.
The American provision trade does
not exhibit much activity. The quail
ity Of the incoming cheese is superior
to last years, with steady, il not i'm
proving demand. Beef has not been
much inquired for, and prices are a
shade lower. Pork, notwithstanding
the high price of Irish, does not in
crease in value. The market is bare
of lard, and the quality which has re-
Gently arrived, is not up to the mark.
The Spanish Government are fitting
out several ships of war, to be station
ed along the coast OF Andalusia, to
check the smuggling which of late
years has been carried on TO an enor-
nous extent between that province and
Gibralter.
One Of the French papers, the M
tional, advocates the necessity of clo-
sing the French ports for the expor-
tation of grain, and blamcs the gov
ernment for the present uneasiness and
fears of the French people on that
subject
It is stated that medical gentlemen
are much wanted in China, and that
those who are already there are reap
ing golden harvest, having extern
sive practice and handsome pay.
The late gales in the Northern Seas
were felt all along the northeast coast
of Scotland, where many small vessels
were driven on shore.
Two agents of an English COM
pany are now travelling over Switzer-
land, and visiting the authorities of the
several cantons, in order to obtain per-
mission to construct a railroad, which
is to connect Germany with the Med
iterranean, and cross part of Swift
zarland. Accordingto their statement