The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-08
Items of Foreign News.

Several vessels laden with Belgian potatoes have
arrived in London from Antwerp.
The Jews of Rome have raised subscription to
present field piece to the civic guard of that city.
1T is stated that in England there persons
employed in the trade of casting idols for the Indian
market.
A garter had not been bestowed upon a Roman
Catholic since the days of James L. until the wings
gave the vacant blue ribbon to the Duke of Norfolk.
The Turkish Government is about to lease its
wooen and cotton manufactures to Armenian cap
taliss, who to work them on their own account
Dost Mohommed Khan, the Ameer of Caboo, is
said to have sent 20 pairs of curious pheasants as
present to the Queen.
J. B. Uniacke is appointed Attorney General, w.
r. Des Bars Socitor-General and Mr.. Joseph
Howe Provincial Secretary, at Halifax, n S.
1t is said that Lord Hardinge, who is now on his
return from India, is bringing with him. present
to the Queen, large tiger which is renowned for
having slam several men,
The Kolnische Zeitung states that in Moscow
there is now living lady who is in her 168th year,
and who was married to her fifth husband when
she was 12l years old.
Mr.. Thomas Wright Civil Engineer of Leeds.
is about proceeding to Barcelona with staff of
men. engines, carriages, materials, etc, to conduct
the first railway opened in Spain.
On the day after intelligence of the new Sardi-
Man, Tuscan, and Neapolitan constitutions re-
celVeu at rome, all Roman newspapers were
printed with red INK as sign of rejoicing.
The Kurrachee Advertiser says that one of the
principal objections of the natives of Scnde to the
Introduction of vaccination is, that by submitting
to the process the patients become inocuated with
Christianity.
A ball was lately given at the Lincoln Lunatic
Asylum for the recreation of the patients, and was
attended by several inhabitants of that city, who
shared the amusements of the inmates in perfect
amty and harmony.
The total number of slaves captured from 1910
to 1916, and for which the of FL ,061 ,S6l has
been paid as bounty to captors out of the public
purse amounts to ll6, 1862, all of whom were landed
alive.
A French surgeon at Guadaoupe where inter-
mittent and other tropical fevers are common, has
discovered that the bark of the Adansomia dgstata
NAV be used instead of sui phate of quinine, and
that it is even more efcacious in feyers than the
latter expensive medicine.
At late meeting of the Asiatc Society," it was
stated that the inferior kinds of Indian tea, which
are unsaleabe in India, sent across the frontier
into the empire of China, were they sold to the
Tarars higher price than could be obtained for
real China tea.
IRELAND-There is no dminution, we regret to
saw in the- amount of restitution. The accounts
which daily reach us, from the South and West,
are really heart-rendlng-n some cases horrifying
and unnatural. No doubt there is exaggeratiOn
employed but, notwithstanding, there are,
convinced, entire parishes in these districts, in
state of absolute want. Evictions not, attery,
numerous, but one case being published during
The fortnight-hat of six families, of thirty per-
Sons, i'll the parish Of Shrue, county of Mayo
The election for the representation of the city OF
Waterford, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Daniel
OConnell, terminated on the 29fh nt In the re-
turn, by a small majority, of Sir III. w. Barron.
FoURIERIsM IN PARIs.-Several large printing
establishments, railroad company, and other busi-
ness organizations, in Paris, have arranged their
affairs henceforward, on the principles OF FOURIER,
the g Socialist"
A FAcr.-Liferary men seem to have been not
onv the prime starters of this French revolution
but to be recognized as the ones from whom liber-
alism is to take body and form in a new Govern
ment there,