The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-01
English Items.

A neat pocket reprint of 90 Emerson's Essays,
which Thomas Carlyle edited some eight years
ago." has appeared in Skaters Shilling Series.
When the government messenger carried the
despatch to Sir Charles Napier, announcing his
appointment to the command of the army in India
he was surprised to be received at the door by a
female servant, and much more when the noise
brought Sir Charles to the head of the stairs to
answer the call. He told the messenger that he was
at dinner, and had no other room to ask him in.
Lieut. Col Tyler, of the British army, is dead
He was in this country during the revolutionary
war; and in the actions at Brooklyn, Monmouth
Court House, and at the storming of Fort Mont
gomery.
Mrs. Trollope has written a novel called the
Lottery of Marriage
The late governor of Gibraltar Sir Robert Will
son, has returned to England.
James Douglass is the new Governor of Vancou-
ver's Island.
The London Atheneum criticises Mr. Herman
Melville's new work rather severely.
Lord Camoys has invented syphon 10 draw off
milk from beneath the surface of tine cream.
Col Bird, of the East India service, has commit
ted suicide at the age of S. years. He had been
separated from his wife, and was in depressed
spirits in consequence.
The new locomotives in on the Great South
ern and Western Railway, are now enclosed in and
upon the same frames with the tenders.
The great ceiling of St. Georges Hall, Liver
pool is just finished. Its span is seventy five feet.
The arch is turned with hollow tiles which weigh
six hundred tons, one thousand four hundred tons
less than if it had been constructed of solid brick
An attempt is making in England TO open an ex-
tensive commerce with Japan.
The English county jais are alarmingy over
crowded with prisoners, SO much so as 10 excite
public remark
The opera of Ernani holds its ground in London.
Pontoon bridges, made of India rubber, an Amer
lean invention, and such as were sent 10 Mexico
during the war, but were not used, have been eN-
hibited al Chatham, by Mr.. Moulton, in the pres
ence of the Duke of Wellington and large num-
Der of British officers. They had been previously
tried in 1S47, and were in use in Africa by the
British forces there. The East India Company
has ordered large number for the use of Sir
Charles Napier, and his battles may hereafter be
won through the aid of a Yankee contrivance and
little India rubber.
French Items.
NJ Lahouaye has been appointed professor Of
general history, vacant in the College of France by
the resignation of M. Lerminier.
The Journal des DeJats has contradiced report
which prevailed that M. Guizot had relurnedsto
Paris. NJ Guizot is still in London, and does not
intend to return to France for two months.
The woman Leblanc, who tried by court
martial in Paris, for having taken active part in
aid of the insurgents of June, and for having nfht
lated the dead bodies of several gardes mobiles,
sentenced to hard labor for ten years.
NJ de Bassano the son of Napoeon's former min
ister has been appointed charge daffairs at Frank
fort.
NJ Sampayo, a nephew of General Cuberes has
been named principal secretary to the French en-
bassy at Stuttgart.
Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, has arrived
in Paris.
Louis Napoleon has been paying visit to the
Marchioness of Londonderry, at the Hotel Meura,
ont of gratitude that lady for her efforts to obtain
his release when prisoner at Ham.
suberranean map of Paris has been made on 40
sheets of large paper
FROM BkAzIL.-By letters received in Boston,
says the Traveller, dated Pernambuco, March 18th,
five days later than heare received, it would ap-
pear that the instruction in that province had been