The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-02-12
Foreign Items and Extracts.

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Foreign Items and Extracts
The gross revenue derived from the Liverpoo
Custom house, for 1913, was f3 4S1 1885, an in
crease OF t25O,S75 on the previous year.
Experiments have been made at Folkestone or
| the practicabty of submarine telegraph across
the Channel 1t was proved practicable to insulate
the wires under water, leaving, the Liverpool Jour
nal says, It's extension across the Channel merely
question of detail" 1t is to be apprehended tina,
in this case, as in many similar cases, the mere de.
tails will render the work impossible Its estimated
! cost is f5000.
M. de Lingueville, a Frenchman who died lately
at the age Of ITO, had been married ten times es-
poused his last helpmate at 80, and had son at lOl
The first church bell which has ever been heard
in Egypt, since the occupation of that country by
the Moslem conquerors, has lately been suspended
| in the tower of Roman Catholic church, built by
the Jesuits at Alexandria.
| A steam plough has been tried on farm near
Stanford, in Essex, by stationary engines at the
| extremities of the field, and the experiment is
said to have been satisfactory. The engine is ten
feet by six in bulk, portable by pair of horses
and may be used for ploughng thrashing or for
any purpose where power of the kind is required.
There are 800 booksellers in London, and there
| are annually 1000 book advertisements.
During the last year fourteen lives were lost at
fires in the metropolis.
statue of Richard Lander, the African travel
Ter, is to be erected in Truro, of which town he
was a native.
Mr.. Smith O'Bren has recently sent beautiful
prayer-book to the wife of Mr. John O'Donnell of
Ballingary in token of the fidelity of her husband.
The Ednburg Review condemns the mainte-
nance of squadron on the coast of Africa, for the
suppression of the slave trade, having produced
no ascertainabe results except the loss of officers
and men, the interruption of the commerce of the
world, the suspicion hatred excited against us
among all foreign nations, and the aggravaton of
the horrors of the slave trade"
The total exports of Great Britain in the first
eleven months of 1917 were EAT 345, 1854 those of
1913, fl2, l5S, 1874. Decrease, f5, 1877, 160.
The Niagara, in her last trip from Boston, took
out to Liverpool 100 carcasses of fresh pork packed
in ice. They arrived in good condition. and were
sold at auction at from 32s cd. to 35s Cd per ll2
lbs. This is the first importation of the kind ever
made.
A man named Robert Owens was so badly in.
jured in prize fight in Liverpool, that he died in
few days. His opponent, named Campbell was
arrested for mansaughter.
The Times says that there has never been time
since the accession of Queen Victoria, when Eng
lish intercourse with other nations had been in so
bad position as at present. Ii adds "There is
not single State in either hemisphere with which
we can be said to have a cordial good understand
dHu WIFI several VI TIE principal ndLlOHS we
are on footing little short Of hostility. Throughout
the world, our foreign policy has provoked resent
ment and distrust.'
The Rome correspondent of the London Daily
News says that the revolution in Rome, so far from
destroying the Catholic Church, as is frequently
apprehended and predicted, will greatly strengthen
it. He says: "Far from being fatal TO the great
Western Church called Catholic, land by accident
Roman,) it is the harbinger of new vitality; and
by the destruction of the Italian excusiveness
which has been corroding ulcer for ages, that
Church will really become what it scarcely has
been of late, really universal and, instead of be-
ing under the narrow management of an Italian
club, will seek for intellect virtue and sagacity
throughout the range of Chrstendom and recruit |
its staff no longer from the petty boundaries of
very ignorant territory but from the whole domain
OF civilized Europe and America
REVIEW OF AMERICAN TRooPs BY Mex
ICAN GENERAL. - Gen. Trias reviewed recently
the United States troops under Col. Washington at
Chihuahua, which is described in the n Y. Spirit
of the Times, from which we extract: ''As the |
General assembled the hill, Bragg's battery. com
manded by Lieut.. H. B. Judd, fred salute-the |
ranks were opened and prepared for review-lhen |
closed, as directed by the General-and he and his
numerous staff mounted on their mustangs, galloped
off, keeping the respectful distance of seventy or
eighty yards from the line. Then followed bat
terry and cavalry drill, which did their eyes good"
VENFzUELA.-The N Y. Sun learns from Can't.
Doyle, of the brig Reindeer, that there had been
an engagement on the morning of Dec. 18th, at
Maracaibo, between the parties of Generals Mona
gas and Paez. The fleet of each party having
been at anchor in the bay, within six miles of each
other, an action was commenced by the Monagas
party, who We're the vcors, four of Paez's vessels
not being able to come into the action. The fleets
We're about equal, numbering some twelve or thir-
teen small craft EACH
FAST SAILING.-Capt. Sturgis informs the editor
of the Gloucester Mass Telegraph that few days
since, in northerly breeze, the cutter Hamilton
run from Georges Island, in Boston harbor. to Prov
incetown harbor distance of 81 miles, under three
lower sails, in hours and 30 minutes, being at the
rate of II miles per hour
OF An ingenious Englishman having invented
a method of splitting sheet of paper, the Governor
of the Bank of England sent him a pound note,
much worn, test his skill. He delivered it next
day, most scientifically and beautifully dissected
into two notes. This is equal to hair splitting.
Do Harrison C. Hobart, formerly editor of the
Salem Advertiser. was chosen Speaker of the Wis.
consin House of Representatives, al the first ballot
On the 10Th ult
o. The Native Americans OF Cincinnati have
nominated Samuel Perry for Mayor. He is one Of
a