The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-28
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Thomas Starkle, an eminent English lawyer
died on the 18th of April, last. Mr. Starkie was
the Downing Professor at Cambridge, and after
wards County Judge at Isington. He was well
known by his Reports, his works on SANDER on
Criminal Pleading, and on the Law of Evidence
The Count D'Orsay is in Paris, enjoying the par
ticular friendship of Louis Napoleon
Mr.. Bancroft Minister at the Court of ST.
James. has been paying brief visit to Paris, Mr.
Brodhead acted as charge ad interim
The Countess of Blessington has gone to Paris
Miss O'Neill, the celebrated actress, has recently
married VIM Becher, Esq.
Eliza Cook the poetess, has commenced publish.
ing weekly journal.
Able de Genoude, the late editor of the Gaz cite
OF France, recently died, after long illness.
Sir Charles Lvell is about to publish ga Second
Visit to the United States.''
Lord Ashburton has bought the Stowe MSS. for
$4,000.
The creditors of MORE, the sculptor pressed him
so hard, while he was out of employment, that he
committed suicide
Sir J. F. w. Herschal has published a valuable
work for the use of officers and travellers called
Manual of Scientific Inquiry.
Mr.. Rodd, a second hand bookseller in London,
the agent of the Trustees of the British Museum
and of the Bodleian, Oxford is dead He was
photographer of the highest grade.
We also notice the death of Professor Endlicher,
the great botanist, of Vienna.
The Bishop of Oxford has Withdrawn from the
Sterling Club.
The last Roman Minister of Finance, Manzoni,
has left Rome with an immense collection of its
of art, be disposed of for the benefit of
the Republic. Lord Broughman has warned the
public against the purchase of the stolen goods.
Mr. Hudson, the Iron King, has received a con-
doing address from bis constituents of Sunderland
MI. Layard, the Ninevite Antiquarian, has been
appointed an attache of the British Embassy at
COnstantinope, with $3.50 year, and the British
Museum has voted him SIS 900, to assist him in
further researches
Sir Charles Napier has reached Alexandria, on
his way to India.
Charles Whitney was, at last accounts, giving
his limitations of American at Willis rooms
London.
The London Atheneum says that at a recent per-
Torrance of Romeo and Juliet, Mrs. Mowatt being
the heroine cotiilOn was introduced in the first
act, set to ''slow and solemn music, in which she
deported herself with singular elegance"
We are told that the Bank clerks in Lombard
street, carry their checks and bills about with them
in cases chained to their arms. The thief cannot
steal the case without carrying off the clerk Gold,
at the Lombard street banking houses, is told by
weight, and the teller counts small sums by two 81
and three's at time
are accepted, receive $40 for sixteen pages. A
writer Of reputation is pretty certain of $50, for
the same work
A young man in England, aged % years, may
obtain a Government life annuity for 5000, which
will produce him $3.50 per annum. A man aged 30,
would get $3.50 a year by paying $500.
The duty paid on bricks the las, year in England,
amounted to more than So 100000
Fourteen thousand searnen have deserted the
British merchant service the last year.
The alkali manufacturers in England, are suffer
ing dreadfully for the want of birthstone a scarcity
being felt in consequence of The blockade of Sicily
The Socialists of Paris have adopted as candi.
dates for the representation of the Seine Sergeant
Major and Sergeant.
Organized emigration, on large scale, is begun
in Ireland The parish priests intend to accompany
their congregations.
Two powerful war steamers are building at Bris-
tol for the German Confederation.
Tours in France, is said to be French town
Anglicised, overrun with English, and more ex-
pensive than Paris.
The steamers between Hamburg and Hull are
laid up in consequence of the Danish war.
proposition was introduced into the House of
Commons for the abolition of the punishment of
death The vote was 81 ayes, IS nays.
The British man-ofwar steamer Columbia is
ordered to the Bay of Fundy, on surveying eI-
petition.
In an old mansion in Sweden, belonging to the
Iamily of the Count de Fersen, attached TO Louis
AVi, there has recently been discovered by the
workmen, while repairing it, collection of dia-
monds worth sixteen hundred thousand dollars,
and sum of nine millions of francs.
The English telegraph lines invariably adopt the
galvanized iron wire
" kidds of Limerick, speaking of the cholera.
says he has tried everything, but has fallen back
upon camphor. The camphor segars, late inven-
uon IN Paris are said 10 be useful in preventing the
A''orp'ion OF the eholeretc poison into the lungs
MRS. Mowatt is to appear in a new classic tragedy
written for her by Mr. Oxenford.
FLO horace fwlss the author of the " Life of Lord
I'aoh' died suddenly on the 4th inst.