The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-26


In consequence of the death Of Sir Benjamin
Durham, the opportunity has been taken to reduce
the military expenditure ia British North America.
The command has been divided, and the highly
paid rank Of Commander Of the Forces abolished.
Sir John Harvey will command the troops in Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick, receiving no addi-
tonal pay as he holds also the situation Of Civil
Governor Of Nova Scotia. Mai Gen. Rowan will
receive the local rank Of Lieutenant General on
the STALL and succeed 70 the command IN the
Canadas The effect Of these arrangements will
be a saving of nearly $1,000 year.
The Hudson Bay Company have submitted to
the consideration Of the Government the expe-
dencY of allowing pensioners t. emigTate to Van
couvers island 10 be formed for service under staff
officers, in the manner adopted in the emigration
to New Zealand.
return to the House of Commons, shows that
the gross total expenditure incurred by Great Brit
ian on account of colonial expenditure in the year
1S46-47 Amounted TO the sum of 3,500,472 les.
3D.. of which f3, 35l 284 was appropriated to mill
tary charges, and .fs2 1896 to naval expenditure
The total expenditure so incurred in the year
1874 amounted to G3, 1863, 439, of which e.
1851 was appropriated to military charges.
Sir Allan McNab made a speech at a meeting of
the National Association for the Protection Of
British Industry, in London, on the Both.
Hon. Adolphus Frederick Capel (brother to the
Earl Of Essex applied 20 the lnsOlvent Debtors
Court, London, and was opposed on the part of A
creditors. The debts in the aggregate, were f32,
lS5. mere WefS no ueDiOfS, ana only about G4U
TO he given up for the creditors, numbering in the
schedule 22l.
At the meeting Of the Presbyterian Church in
Scotland, held recently in. Edinburgh, resolution
disappearing Of reading dseOurses from the pulpit
of that Church was carried by a majority Of 1865
against III.
The whaling fleet Of Van Dieman's Land num-
bers thirty vessels, measuring 7,26O tons, val
ued at El4S,0O0, and manned by 100 seamen.
An explosion lately occurred in a colliery at
Great Bridge, near Dudley, which killed 25 or 30
persons, and seriously injured number of others.
IL was occasioned by unsorewing the safety lamp.
Miss bufleu COutts received an Accession OF
8l00l0 a year 10 her already almost countless
income, besides a large store of rich plate and
other Vauahles, in consequence of the early de-
mise of the Duke of st. Adams, an annuiant OF
the former Duchess Mrs. Coutts)
John Knox, the Scottish Reformer's house in
Edinburgh, being in dangerous state, has 10 be
taken down. 1t is proposed to mark the stones and
reGrect il in exactly the same manner
There is only one diamond cutter in London.
The Dutch have for ages almost monopnlized the
diamond cutting trade Of Europe, and so expsrt
they, that on showing them a rough diamond
they will tell tothe greatest nicely what will be It's
exact shape when cut, and almost to the hundredth
part Of grain, what the polished gem will weigh.
In the bankruptcy court in London, recently, a
dividend was made on an estate, under fiat issued
IN Ivy, fifty years ago. The bankrupts were
Messrs Present and Bodicker, who had failed in
upwards Of half million There is scarcely a
single creditor surviving
1t is proposed in London to found an establish
meut in Madeira for the reception, at a very mod
crate expense, Of consumptve patients in the mid
die classes Of life meeting for the promotion OF
this object was held at the HanoVer-square Rooms
on Monday, Lord r.. Grosvenor in the chair. Sew.
era ship-owners have offered to lessen the expense
of the voyage one.half for patients.
Clarence Mangan died last week. says late
London paper, in Dublin, in abject penury He
was well known by his pOetical transIations from
German literature, being the author of +" Antho-
loga Germanica," Leaflets from the German
Oak" and a variety of essays in the " University
Magazine" The misery in which he lived fol
many years was very great, as his wretched health
prevented him from labor. Within the last ter
DAYS he was an inmate Of one of the temporary
hospitals provided for cholera patients.
A ship recently arrived at London from Zanzt
bar bringing five Arab horses, small but very SYM
metriCal, as present from the lmaum Of musoa
20 the Queen, On the voyage they we're led q
elleHke aHd aales