The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-02-24
Foreign Miscellany.

son of Sir Robert Peel has been promoted to a
Post Captaincy, for extraordinary merit.
The young Earl of Stamford has run away with,
and married beautiful girl of humble rank in
lile The aristocracy are much shocked at the cir
cumstance.
A new work is announced by Sir Francis Head
called "Stokers and Pokers."
In work on steam navigation, from the pen of
Professor Woodcrof, high praise is given to the
United States, for its patronage of Capt. Ericsson,
and the adoption of his propeller
The present possessor OF Abboisiord, Is the only
son of Mr. Lockhart, lieutenant in the 10th Ian
GERS. The estate has a rental of $500 per annum.
We notice the death of Dr. Pritchard, the author
of the great work, called Researches into the ply
steal history of Man.
Col Sabine has resigned the Secretaryship of the
British Association.
The aneroid barometer is likely to 60 out offavor,
because there is no correction for temperature,
made in the instruments as sold.
Professor Thompson Of Glasgow, has died of the
cholera.
Ii is rumored in Paris that the Sicilians have
proclaimed Lucien Murat King of Naples.
Louis Napoleon has been visiting the hospital of
the Hotel Dieu. He spoke kindly to the sick, and
produced strong and favorable impression.
An English Bishop. who admires Jenny Lind, is
about to present her with superb copy of the
Bible "The singers go before.''
A London physician who analysed the water at
Claremont, which made Louis Philippe's family
sick, found it largely charged with lead. He in
sinuates that this caused the death of the Princess
Charlotte.
Carved tortoise shell combs, worn at the back of
the head, are now all the rage abroad
Lincoln's Inn has been seriously injured by fire.
Title deeds of many valuable estates We're de-
stroyed and this has led 10 the opinion that there
should be registry offices in England like those
have in this country.
Mrs. Mowatt's play, g Armand, or the Peer and
~, bac hoe af Nor To-
bone theatre.
A new waltz is agitating the fashionable world,
the Valse a piuot," in two parts, composed by
Aubusson.
Charles Dickens is now the frequent guest of the
English nobility.
Gen Sir Thomas Arbuthnot is dead.
An American Bowling Saloon has been opened
at Liverpool with great ecat What strikes the
cocknies with peculiar awe and admiration, is, that
at the bar the drinkers allowed to pour out their
own liquors in quantities to suit themselves. This
is something new in England.
1t is now asserted medical fact that if child
be kept long at the breast it is sure to perish
Sir Henry Bishop has been lectring on music.
Two large and powerful steamers are to be i'm
medately built, to replace the Acadia and Britain
MIA, sold.
Charlotte Cushman has been playing in Dublin
with great success.
Alexander Dumas has declared himself bankrupt.
The British Government has resolved to remove
John Mitchell from Bermuda to milder climate,
in consequence of his i'll health.
There are now in England "a packs OF grey
hounds, 20 of barriers, and four of stag hounds.
There were e. deaths from cholera In London
during the week ending January Goth.
An American lady, who has been obliged to keep
school, is very likely to become an Island Queen.
1t appears that during the late events in Paris the
city government spent eighteen millions OF francs,
for three of which there were no vouchers.
The Rt Hon. Sir Francis Barring, Baronet, has
been appointed first Lord of the Admiralty, rsce
the Earl of Auckland, deceased