The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-08

vi AAio sfbiig all communication with ATQOEtO
was cut of, and the police being driven out of
Scala were compelled to take refuge in a guarda-
costa boat. One of the most respected citizens
named ZannatO, was burnt alive in his house. with
TWO OF his servants. Other buildings were either
destroyed or Threatened by the people Of Leo and
the COntadina movement rapidly increased. In the
end, as we have before stated, through the ener-
getic conduct nf his excellency Mr. Ward the
Lord High Commissioned, and through the pro-
ciamation Of martial law, quietude was reGslab-
lished. -
English Items.
The second regiment of life guards is likely 10
become one Of the most remarkable in the service.
Since the extraordinary marriage of Me- Head
With Lola Monies, an officer Of the corps, possess
ing fSO0O year, ran off with the " lady frail +"
of a brother officer, who had been her protector
for months, and, having settled on the fair but
taithless one no less a sum than Gl500 per annum,
married her at Brighton last week.
1t is stated in military circles that brevet pro-
motion, commemorate her Maiesty's first visit to
Ireland, viii be gazetted about the middle Of the
present month; and rumor attributes to the SOve-
reign an intention of comforting a distinguished
honor upon Rear-Admiral Maney Dixon, Com
mander-in, Chief of her Atajestys naval forces on
the coast Of Ireland.
The three Queens Colleges in Ireland are to be
united under the name of the Queens University
and to have the power OF comforting degrees. The
opening Of the College at Belfast is announced for
the 7th Of November. The naturalization exsmi.
October; and the scholarship on the ID, Sd and
5lh of November
The 18th annual report of the commissioners for
building churches, states that during the year
twenty-nine churches have been completed with
the aid of grants, making in I'll 449 churches with
accommodation for 4S3,273 persons, including
29l ,O76 free sittings for the poor. Twenty-one
new churches are in course of erection, and plans
for twenty-five more have been approved
A correspondent of the Athen9um describes a
Spanish booksellers puff displayed on a church
door in Pampsluna " After dT1V advertising the
title and price of a history of a certain image of
the Virgin, the publisher stated that, by the bsh-
ops authority, he was enabled 70 promise forty
days indulgence for each Of the eighty sections
composing the work to all pure who should
devoutiy read the same %
It seems that the Lauer-dav Saints are of the
never-say-die" class; for we learn from the
Stamford Mercury shat one of them preached the
other day at COrby, near COlsteHworth, and assu-
red his audience that California was the promised
land, the new kingdom prepared for them, where
they would never diei The sermon terminated
with great abrupness and burly constable.
Phe Railway Times comforts a shareholder, in
polished slang, by telling him that he must efur.
cate :"
The Liverpool Albion says: " Mr.. Hancock, o.
StOrr d MOrlmer's, the jewelers., is understood tC
be frequent visiter to ClaremOpr, and to find lib
eTai patrons tor his wares IN the old Aware aud his
offspring, who eontTive to live rent free, and ex.
empt, no doubt, from the income tax, though su-
perabundantly wealthy"
The King of Prussia has presented the Rev. w.
Cureton, of the British Museum with the gold
medal for literary and scientific merit, as a mark
Of the high appreciation in which the King holds
Mr.. Cureton tOr his recent edition of Ignatus 1"
DR.. Stanley, Bishop of Norwich, died of conges-
ton of the brain, on the 9Th ult. He was the sec
ond Of Sir T. J. Stanley, and was therefore
younger brother of Lord Stanley, of Alderley.
DR.. Stanley was born in I779; married, in 1910,
the eldest daughter Of the Rev. o. LEICESTER, rec
tor of Stoke-upOn Trent, and was c0nsecrated
bishop in 1927. He was clerk of the closet TO her
Majesty, and patron Of forty-seven livings The
annual value of the see of Norwich is f4455
The bishop was liberal in politics, and was favor
ably known as an author, by his Familiar His
tory of British Birds and other works.