Arkansas intelligencer., 1848-04-29
FOREIGN ITENS.
The income Of the Bishop of Manchester has
been fixed at El200 per annnum.

The income Of the Bishop of Manchester has
been fixed at Gl2O0 per annnum.
When Holsters are in season, from 30 TO 25 600
are often daily sold in BiIIingsgale Market and
the annual supply Of Norwegian Holsters to Lon
don IS estimated al 100000, while about 10000
are brought from the coast Of Scotland.
It is said that it has lately been a common prac.
tice to hiss while d" God Save the Queen is being
performed in the theatres of Dublin.
Ninety five thousand Irish children arc said to
be now receiving weekly rations from the British
The captain and mate Of the barcuo Severn, oil
New York, have been arrested at Cork. for iuhu-
man conduct to two Of the crew-one who was
lying dangerously III in the inGrmary, and the
other being ordered to 90 up and unfurI Il sail
under tho threat Of being shot by the captain If
he refused, and being unable 10 do so by the rca-
son Of iameness, jumped OvorbOard and was
drowned.
Crime in Ireland since the close Of the Special
Commission has declined generally. Dcsututon
is, however lcarfuIiy on the increase, particularly
in CCnnaught and Munster.
A priest named Nolan, It IS stated, hos been
suspended, for altar denunciation. by his Bishop
the Rev. Dr.. Kennedy, of Kil,aIoe.
The Roman Catholics of Belfast having petit
toned in favor Of the emancipation of the Jews,
Baron BothschiId has acknowledged his sense OF
their hJeraiity in courteous Ietsor.
a French paper states that, a few days since.
such immense shoals of anchovics, supposed to
have been chased by predatory fish, were driven
into The rivers Nivo and AdOur, thai the people Oh
the banks cauyh: enormous quantities, by merely
dipping pals into the water.
Many ladies' a: Naples, when attending balls or
private parties, now wear tricolor cOckadcs, in
stead Of flowers in their hair.
The ticks of admission 70 hear Jenny Lind, a.
Stockholm, are actoUed to the highos. bidder and
thus realise 400 to 500 per cent. on the usual
opera price.
A statistical account of the population of italy.
up 10 the end of last year. gives the following
numbers: The two SiciIios, S,5GG.O 900 Piedmont
and Sardinia, 1, $4,000; Roman States :, ,S77 900;
Tuscany and Lucca, l,7OI 200 Monaco, 1850 ;
San Marjno, 1860 Modena, 433,0 600 Parma
and PIacentia, All 600 Venetian Lombardv. l.
$4,000; Italian TyrOl, 522 ,GO3 Isria, 45S, 600,
Total, 1867, ,238.
The guns captured from the Sikhs are to be
placed muzzo to muzz'e in acolumn $50 fee,
high at Calcutta and the top Of the pillar is to be
surmounied with figure OF Britannia, supported
/ by two scPoys.
/
q ridiculous fiction invented by tho biogruphers OF
/ Mohammed, who have colorad it with such ex-
| travaganco and minuteness of detail that we have
venturcd to narrate: The horeish wishing tc
confound him before the ewes ofhis fellow citizens
had challenged him to verify his claim by bring.
\ ing the Moon from Heaven in presence of the
whole assembly. Aiahouet accepted the proposal
with confidence. At his command the sky was
darkeued at noon; when The obedent planet
though but five days old, loapel from the firma-
mont, and bounding through the air alighIed on
the summit of the koaba, which is encircled by
seven distinct revolutions. Turning to the Prophet
it did him royerance, addressed him in elegant
Arabic and pronounced discourse in his praise
concluding with the formula of the Moslem creed
These salutations finished il entered the righ
5 sleeve of his mantle, and made its exit by Iht
, left. Then descending from the collar Of hi
soizEsdfae fringe, it mounted IN the air, separating
a52>f yRr rhalves. In this m0nner1il resumed ii
station n the sky, the parts gradually uniting il
.. one round and luminous orb, as before.