The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-22
EFIom the New York Evening Post.1
Foreign Items.

Since the introduction of railways in England
the turnpike roads have been dead weight upon
the country. The annual expense of keeping them
in repair is about thirteen millions of dollars year.
The splendid furniture of the Hotel LATTE ha
been sold in Paris. 1t brought large prices.
An English company has purchased the cele-
brated silver mines of Guadacanal Sierra Morena
which have been flooded with water for $50 years
An immense steam pump has been at work with
success, to drain the mines, which it is believed
will produce large profits.
Habeneck, celebrated leader and trainer OF
orchestras, recently died in Paris.
The pay of a Surgeon in the British army is 13s
sterling per day.
Paralysis is now said to be cured by alkaloid
strychniq, in doses of grain, given two or three
times day. Rather dangerous remedy
1t has been proposed in Parliament 10 register
deeds and membranes on real estate in Great
Britain.
1t is noticed in England that the mercury of the
barometers has recently indicated an extraordi-
nary rise, and often repeated-3l3 IS and 81 40
have been repeatedly noticed. The same curious
fact has been observed here.
An act is about to be passed excluding insolvents
from the House of Commons
The Italian Opera in London has % principal
singers, and chorus of "a persons.
Mrs. Mowatt is still playing at the Marylebone
theatre. with success.
The French Government has received an official
report in relation to the gold mines of California
From whom!
Westmacott, jr., has been elected /. Royal Acade-
mician.
The sale of portion of the ex-King Louis
Philppe's race horses took place on Friday, at the
Royal stables in the Faubourg de Roule. 1t was
numerously attended All the foreigners of rank in
Paris were present, together with a considerable
number of the French nobility. The horses, which
were in capital condition, brought good prices, and
were eagerly contended for Col. Feury attended
for the President of the Republic, and bought an
untried colt Altogether, the prices obtained were
considered high. particularly by the English sport
ing characters present, who were generally outbid
by the French.
On Saturday a seizure made at bronze
mandatory in Paris, in the quarter of the Hotel
de Vile, of great number of medals, hearing the
profile of the Duke de Bordeaux, together with the
dies from which they were struck.
The President of the Republic has made pre-
sent ofmany thousand pairs of blankets the poor
Of the Faubourg ST. Jacques, which district, per-
haps comprises the miserable part of the popu
lalion of Paris.
A considerable augmentation is daily taking
place in the number of persons visiting Paris, or re-
turning to it after long absence caused by the
late political commissions. This is especially
noticed in quarter which is remarked for being
preferred by Englishmen-the neighborhood of the
Madeleine. Some short time since notices of
houses TO let were most numerous. These signs of
desolation have, however, gradually disappeared
and 1t is now rather difficult than otherwise to pro-
cure accommodation in the quarter referred to.
House rent has, of course, increased in proportion
From Gaeta we hear simply that the Pope enjoys
good health. His Holiness had held convoca-
ton, at which eleven cardinals were present.