Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-03-03
From the New York Evening Post.
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.


has lost his seat, for some informality He
declares he will be reelected by large ma
jorify.
Foreign salt is admitted into France, in
foreign vessels at IL francs Der 100 klo-
CRANES.
Power-loom weavers are in grea, demand
at Manchester.
The bank Of Vienna has borrowed ten
millions of francs from the Rothschilds.
The canal navigation at Belgium was
closed by the frost on the LIST Of January.
The English skaters have had great
time of it on Derwent lake, which has been
completely frozen over.
Mrs. Mowatt and Mr.. Davenport have
commenced an engagement at the Maryle-
bone theatre, and were well received.
Jenny Lind has settled her law suit with
Mr.. BUMP, by paying him $4,000.
Madame Castelar, is to appear at the
Italian Opera at Paris. She is to appear
in Meyerbeer's Prophetic.
There are nineteen regiments Of the Brit
ish army serving in India number of cav
airy 800, Of infantry 10000
Milk is now conveyed in large quantities
by railway to London.
A lump of gold weighing four ounces,
from the Sacramento, has been exhibited in
London, and an engraving of il appears in
the Pictorial News
GoLD IN lRELAED.--The Railway Ga
zette (Eng.) has the following:
We perceive that an association has
been formed 10 work the gold mines of
Wicklow and Wexford. as the discoveries
in California have turned attention to gold
seeking. Ii is announced that more than
twenty trials during three months labor
have proved that the aurilerons deposit in
Ireland occupies an area of upward of 100
spare miles in the counties of Wicklow
and Wexford. The gold is found in quartz
and black iron sand as on tbs Western
coast Of America, and it is said that by an
improved method of working, sixteen men
and women can wash 100 tons of sand a
day, at an outlay Of rs. The managing .
director of the association is Mr.. w. X.
Collect, who mistaken very active part
~ The extension OF the railway system IN
Ireland"
Derbyshre spar has become SO scarce as
to he worth from so TO $500 per ton. The
ornamental works produced from this sub
stance are made thinner than formerly.
The families OF Henry 9TH aud Louis
Philippe are to be permitted to return to
France.
We notice the death of Charles Smart
Evans, celebrated composer of glees.
The subscriptions for the relief of Mrs.
John Mitchell have amounted to $4,000.
Lamartne's Medltatons have been trans
lated into Chinese.
A specimen of the frigate bird, which /
lives and sleeps ia the air, never visiting
the land except at the breeding season, has J
been presented to the Ipswich museum, by /
the Bishop of Norwich,
Coal is so injured by transportation TO In
dia that lis value is essened one half.
Coal has been discovered in the Straits
of Magellan.
American galvansing machines are now /
sold in England.
Mrs. Hewitt is charged with becoming a
little American ~ her language, where she
speaks of one Frcderika Bremer's heroin-
es as +" a regularly splendid girl"
WATERS are now used az some of the En-
glish Puseyte Churches at the Communion
IN place OF bread.
General Cavaiguae's behavior, since his
defeat, has been much commented upon
lie has scorniully repealed all the advances
which were made 10 hun, aud he refused to
appear as officer of the State at the review /,
aud at the reception of new years day.
The great cheese exhibited at tho Fair
of the American Institute, weighing nearly
1900 pounds, has arrived out safely, aud
attracts great attention.
Remington has been building bridge of
] % feet span, over the Trent, in Stafford
shire, for Earl Talbot. 1t has no intorne-
diate supports.
Mourtaus have been discovered on Sat :
urn,s ring, by the aid of Rosss telescope. !,
Lola Monies has arrived in London +.
steam plough has been tried on farm
near Strattord, in Essex, by stationary en-
gines ut the extremiics OF the field, aud
That the experiment is said to have been
The engine is ten feet hy six
ia bulk, portablewit pair of horses, and
may he used for ploughlng, ,hrashing, or
Tor any purpose where power of the kind
IS required.
The Edinburg Review condemns the
OF a squadron on the coast o {
Africa, for the suppression Of the slave trade |
as having produced "no ascertalnable re- q
suits except the loss of officers aud men, "
The interruption OF the commerce of the
world, the suspicion of hatred excited
against us among all foreign nations, and
he aggrayatlon OF the horrors of the slave
rade.i'
Mrs. Maury, the author of two well known
works on the United States, is about 10 re-
move hilher with her family.
a large space OF ground, covering 500 =
Get, at Middlelown, slid down lately, car :,
ying with II = huge oak tree, and destroy :,
ny some valuable collicry works lying IN :.
Is track,
A statue of Richard Lander, the African
rascller, is TO be erected in Truro, of which
own he was q native. q
IL is stated that the Repeal Association !,
Will renew its operations as soon as tue sus.
pension OF the habeas corpus shall be ended.
4 he debts have all been paid of; the news
lapers accepted Il. in the pound, and there
; balance of G24 pound to commence .
With, /
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