Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-02-28
FOREIGNE EXTRACTS RECELVED
BY THE ROSCIUS

a 1he steamship Great Britain made an
/, other trial Of speed on the 9Th January
S with l4O visitors on board. She wen
e nineteen miles exactly in one hour an,
= nine minutes, head 10 the wind! Sh,
S pertormsladm;rably.
;. The Duke of Normandy, heir to th
:. throne OF France, has narrowly escaped as
: sassination in England.
Y The London Chronicle of the 10th ult,
. contains the entire report of the Secretar,
: OF the Treasury on the opening of Con
e gress.
+ The postage reform in Russia is produc.
5 ing the very best results.
An old lady Of Aries, terrified of being
t buried alive, left. by w,II GOO francs to the
= person who should continue to tickle her
feet for 40 hours after her apparent death.
= A female domestic commenced the task,
, nut wassobliged totakc.a partner.
A match ior f1OO a side was run on
+ Monday last, between Sheppard, of Bir-
mlngbam, sand Jackson, alias the American
Deer, near Barnet. Jackson, who was the
winner, ran eleven miles within the hour.
According to thei Spectator, Sir Charles
MetcaIt, Governor of Canada, is dying
slowly but surely, Of cancer in the face, for
which he has already undergone two pain
tu operations in vain.
The Lords Of the Admiralty have enter
ed into a contrat for the conveyance of
; the mails between Suez and Calcutta and
China.
The pension to Mr. Hood, E1OO a year,
has been considered granted for the life of
mis- wife, his own health being: considered
unfortunately very precarous.
MIR. Grecnhow, the medical attendant
OF Miss Martineau, has published an elabo-
rate account Of his patterns case, His
opinion is that. .Mesnerism had nothing to
do with her.
The wages Of agricultural iaborers in thc
neighborhood of Chppenham have recent
Iy been reduced tots per week
Sir Robert Peel has offered to Miss Fran
ces Brown, the blind poetcss Of Ulster,
pea sion OF eco per annum from fund at
the disposal Of the. lady OF the first minister
Of the Crown.
A report is abroad that a messag, rom
the Queen will be delivered to Parliament,
shortly after the opening of the session.
asking the Legislature to authorize her to
confer the title oGKing upon Prince Albert.
lhe'precedents are numerous.
Among the important information from
Windsor it is recorded that on the 10Th
the Queen and Prince Albert walked ont;
1t is presumed that they subsequently wak-
ed in, but as that circumstance is not stat
ed, the matter is involved in mystery.
According to private letters from Berlin. |
the Queen and Prince Albert will pay a |
visit to the German CouM at an carly day.
A journey of one hundred an njuct,
four miles on the Great Western Railroad
was recently performed in four hours and
twenty-five minutes.
IRELAND.
ThegBequcSt net and hc Clcrgy-.-The
iernent against the Most Rev. DR.. Murray,
Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Dublin, and |
hls clergy, bear some resemblance to that
excited by DR.. PhiIpott's, in the dioces of
Exeter, by his famous rubricaI DEGREES. For
the last fortnight the attendance in the
church OF the Conception in Marlborough
street, where Archbishop Murray oniciates,
mas wonderfully diminished, and 20 thjn
was the congregation on Sunday, that the
matter was the subject Of general CONVEX
sation in Roman Catholic circles. The |
chapeIs Of all the lriars in the city were. in |
the meanwhile crowded to excess. The |
"rcgular' clergy are Just now in high order .
with the party Of which Mr.. O'COnnell and |
Mr.. M'llele are the respective lay and the .
clerical leaders. DR.. CroIIy was waited on
by Il depuation, in order to induce him to !
change his determination of acting as !
commissioner under the bill, but his ab-
sence from the meeting proves that he still
retains his opinions. Popular feeling
throughout the CouHtryruns very high on
the subject, and hints have cbccn'CrcuIated |
that any priest sane ioning the principles of
the bill will have his dues withheld 1t is
surmisedsthat a concordat from the Pope,
giving the British Government any voice
in the appointment of Bishops, and pro-
hlhtlng clerical agitation on politics, would |
lead to rupture with Rome. The Tablet,
Pilot, and other.Cathoc papers. are furious
on the subject.
1t is generally reported in Dublin, that
MaynooIh College to 20,O00i. per 0nnum,
.stpuatinE, however, for certain changes
in the system OF education, bat not nterler-
ing with the spiritual control. at present
exercised,
The Dublin Evening Mail has dubbed the
colleges about, II is said to be established
by Government in Ulster and Munster, as
"Auti-Trinilarian.
FRANCE,
The Paris Constitutional intimatos that
the Jesuits wrote anonymous letters OF the
most fearful character to M. Villenain, late
Minister of Public Instruction, because he
refused to favor their plans for obtaining
the control Of the schools. These letters
resulted in driving him crazy, and now the
Jesuits say his loss of reason is a judgment
from Heaven for refusing to favor their
measure.
SPAIN
Mocready has been highly successful in
Paris-Lord Byron's Werner was produced
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