The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-18
GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS
AND CORRESPONDENCE.

AND CORRESPONDENCE.
The Aston Place riot is commented on at great
length by the English papers. The Times gives
great credit to the authorities for their conduct in
the affair, but regards the outbreak as evidence of
the unfavorabe working of republican institutions.
To this view Of the subject, the Daily Ns,1s has
long article in reply Jerrod's Weekly .Nei0s con-
dennis the authorities for inviting collision with
the mob, is severe upon Mr. Macready, and adds
that " the is not yet closed, the tragedy
completed "-and that "the revolution at Naples
began with scramble for apples and the revolu-
ton of the New World may date its rise to an
equally insufficient cause-and the contention of
players for notorety." The comments of the
Paris papers are not at all complimentary to the
Forrest party, and exonerate Mr.. Macready from
all blame
Walter Savage Leandor has addressed letter to
the German people, IN which, after expressing his
sympathy for their cause, he suggests that if the
articles and armies of rulers should prevail, there
is land enough and employment enough in Ameri-
ca for Germany whole population and concludes
by asking What, then, would be the result if the
most intelligent, the most provident, the most act
i've of the same nation, were to unite their coun-
sells, their ZEAL their experience, their larger pecu-
mary means, in coonizing the vast and fertile
regions Of Central America, thrown open to
| enterprise and sciencei"
"Who'l buy town. asks the Liverpool Al
bion, ga very pretty town indeed-the town of
Parkgate, which has, above all other towns, the
singular privilege of being sold by auction. Many
town has been battered TO pieces, but Parkgate is
only to be brought to the hammer"
Jenny Lind has Just paid visit to the French
capital. She is said have suffered cruelty from
the breaking off of her intended marriage. Her
detection is such that she has refused the most lib
era offers to appear at the Paris opera, and has al
ready left for her home in Sweden.
On reading in the Morning Chronicle that Jenny
Linds marriage with Mr.. Harris was broken off,
and that she had gone to Paris, Punch remarks:
Dear Jenny Lind has changed her mind,
And run away to Paris;
So Betsey Trigg right, we find
There is Mrs. Harris
Among the deaths announced is that of the Duke
Of ST. Adams, a nobleman chiefly known TO the
public from his marriage TO the rich Mrs. Coutts
A black Episcopal Bishop is about to be conse-
Grated in England, and sent TO Africa
The Count Montmon son of Don Carlos, a
claimant to the crown Of Spain, is about 10 marry
an English lady, Miss De Horsey.
Dr. Harteaux, Of Paris, has published a state
ment that the of tobacco is preservatve against
the cholera, TO great extent Of two thousand
people engaged in its manufacture, he found but
twelve persons who had been attacked. Vidal,
Diemerbrook, and Ruef, all agree in this opinion,
and Dr. Moore says tobacco injections will cure the
disease
La Democratic Pacifque tells of foreign mar
ned young lady having been presented to the
French President, and having fanced she was but
haughtily received: care you for a long stay in
France" coolly asked Louis Napoleon. "No,
prince" was the reply, care your"
The Medical Times affirms: ain the water col
lected from lead roofs there is no inconslderable
danger. There is Likewise reason TO believe that
the Of zinc utensils, for variety Of domestic
purposes, as well as for roofing, is not altogether
without danger"
At the completion Of the sale Of the late Mr..
0Connell's books, pictures, engravings, &c, on
Monday, small portrait of Lord John Russell
could not be disposed Of at ALL the auctioneer could
not even wheedle forth bid of I'D. A portrait of
oConnell, in oils, brought only 30s.
The Hants Independent says that at the Queens
last visit to Osborne there no fit vessel to con-
vey her from Portsmouth The Victoria and Al
bert were locked up for repairs; Fairy, tabooed on
account of smallpox; Fire Queen, no accommodate
ton; Elfn, too small. Ii was resolved to run all
risks, and send the Fairy
The Morning Herald says that in debate Bugeaud
is a provoking and compromising speaker ne is
not dexterous OF happy dialecucian, but one of
those fluent, bu-headed, mounting declaimers that
"Runs muck, and tits at all he meetsn
letter from Montpelier, we learn from GaIig-
mani, gives an account of the discovery Of a mine
of silver mixed with gold in the Herault.
Punch declares that a sporting paper wrote to
Meyerbeer's Prophetic" to ask him for the name of
the winning horse of the Derby!
DIR. w. b. Carpenter, in lecture at the Ipswich
museum, allowed the possession of reason, TO a GER
tain extent, in animals. He nstanced that the
young Indies in Bristol school used to lunch in
the garden at twelve, and crumb-pcking sparrows
congregated a little BEFORE but on Sundays, as the
girls did not lunch, the sparrows never appeared.
The Stamford Mercury states that gentleman
who has entered into a contract with Government
for the supply of oak for ship-buildng, has been
making large purchases around Stamford, and that
several thousand trees will be conveyed down the
rivers Weand and Meme in the present summer.
! As M. Marrsst can no longer be President of the
Assembly, not indeed being even member, he
has taken the editorship of the Steele, which will
now be as the National Of old.
The Greeks have been digging somewhere in
Sparta for buried gold After an incessant toll Of
ten days, they discovered most refreshing spring
OF water and pair Of old Turkish slippers.
-Four thousand people out of population Of
bO,OOO died at Limerick, in one month, Of the cho-