The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-02


Midsummer railway excursions between London
and Edinburgh, with a choice of six or thirteen
days residence in the former city, are now adver-
tised at 42s. sterling the whole trip
Sir Charles Napier, on his arrival at Calcutta,
reviewed the Goth regiment, and made il a strong
speech in favor Of temperance
Robert Owen is writing new series Of letters on
the advantages Of English Socialism, addressed to
the Yourselves and Red Republicans.
The iron founders in France have monopoly,
but in consequence they produce poor article,
there is but little demand for it.
The celebrated fresco OF Aurora" by Guido,
has been injured very materially by canRon shot
fired BY the French before Rome. This fresco is
over one of the ceilings Of the Palazzo Rospgliovi
The Hermann, Capt Crabtree, made her last
passage out in thirteen days
Commander Lynchs Expedition to the Dead Sea
is we'll spoken of by the English critics.
Four men were recently tried in Staaordshire,
England for rape committed in an open field, in
the presence Of one hundred male and female
operatives
A large edition of Protestant Bibles has been
recently published and circulated in Rome.
The Roman Five per Gents, which, at the de-
parture Of the Pope, were quoted at 6S, are now
at par.
An Englishman, writing from San Francisco,
says that a Major and Captain in the U. S. Army
employ themselves in rowing a ferry boat, by which
| they make much more money than by attending to
The net revenue of the British Post-Ofice for the
4 year 1913 was over f3,2OO,OOO.
All the Consular agents at Rome united in send
4 ing Gen. Oudinot protest against the lombard
ment of Rome.
VENICE.
A letter from Vienna Of the 22d June states that
| the Venetians had made a successful sOrtie and
captured a number of the besseging army, among
| whom were two Austrian Generals. Marshal Ra-
detzskY had made proposal for their exchange,
| but the terms offered by him were rejected by
General Pepe.
The Tuscan Monitor of the 24th June publishes
the following " AT Padua depntation is expected
from Venice treat for the surrender of the city.
M. de Bruck, the Austrian PlenpOtentiaTy, is also
expected at Padua."
The evening edition of the Weiner ZeitlRg, of
the 9th June, states that according accounts of
the 2ffh, from Mestre, the Austrian deputies, Pa
paiiOpOlO and Passni sent to negotiate for the sur
render of Venice with the Austrian Minister Bruck,
at Verona, have besn dismissed, and have already
returned to Venice The bombardment and the
besieging works would again be prosecuted with
greater vigor than ever.
PIEDMONT.
BY royal decree, dated Turin, Both June, the
Sandman Parliament is convOked for the 3Oth
July The elections were to commence on the
18th in Piedmont, and on the 22d in Sardinia.
A letter from Turin, in a Lyons Journal Of the
Both June, positively announces that the negotia
lions are broken of between the Governments o.
Austria and Piedmont, on account of the increa
sing demands OF the former, which, It is said
Insists on the cesslOn OF the principally Of Monaco
The Piedmontese Ministry, though DESTROYS O.
peace, refuses to accept such conditions.
TUSCANY.
The Reforma of Lucca, Of the 26th June, states
that George Guerrazzi, brother to the ex-dictatOr
ports for Marseiles, on his promise TO abandon Tus
, | canv forever