The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-20
FOREIGN ITEMS


Company now contracting to build two pad
die. box steamers, each $500 tons buithen and
300 horse power, to convey the India mail be.
tween Southampton and Alexandria. These yes
sells will he as swift as the mail packets that run
between Liverpool and America, and the passage
between Southampton and Alexandra will he re-
duced from Ii to 10 or IL days, including stop.
pages at Malta and Gibraltar. A communication
with Gibraltar will be effected in four and hall
days, and with Malta in eight days. Letters
from India, which now reach Southampton abou,
the 18th and 26 of the month, will then arrive in
time to be answered by the India mail, that leaves
London by way of.Marseilles, on the oath Of the
month.
A document has been printed, by order Of the
House Of Commons, showing that the eXpendi
ture Of medical establishments, under the poor
law, in the year ending the 25lh Of March last
was Git ,O39 lis cd. The total number Of hos
pta patients in the year, was 468O29.
The cost Of obtaining patent for England, is
clio for Ireland, el35; for the whole British
Empire and its dependencies 6375; being three
times more than the cost Of "a SINH ar privilege IL
any other country in the world.
The will Of the ExKing Louis Philippe, has
just been proved in the Prerogative Court of Can.
erhury. Louis Philippe bequeaths all his prop
erty and securities in England, Sicily and Amer
ca, to Her Majesty, the Ex-Queen. The castle
and estate at Eu, and the estates at Treport, are
left to the Duo De Nemours. The will is written
in En- glsh, and signed "Louis Philippe" Az
ter the death of the Queen, the property is to be
divided among the grandchildren.
Che pair Of rats, with their progeny, will in
three years, produce many GAG, S08 rats
which will consume day by day, as much food
as Ga $50 men, leaving eight rats to sarve.
The total receipts OF all the boroughs in Eng,
land and Wales, during the year ending August
3lst, l849, was FL Pal ,655, viz : 9254 1923 Dor,
ough-rates, S907,3 from other sources The
it,,ra him no rinl
0l9 the balance in the treasurers hands was f79,
500, and the balance due to the treasurers I'll >
232
The oldest Bishop of the English Church, is
the Bishop of Durham, now in his 80th year. The
youngest Bishop is the Bishop of Down, aged AZ
According to the return Of the beet-root sugar
trade in France, they were, in October last, two
hundred and siXty-three manufactures at work
which had made about eight m lions two hundred
and slNty-eIght thousand kogrammes OF sugar,
which was rather more than at the same period
last year. The quantity delivered for consumption
was two millions seven hundred thousand kilo-
grammes, or nearly seven hundred thousand kllo-
grammes less than last year
The imporatons from Russia to Enean OF
grain, are larger than from any other country.
The propretors of the inn, where Gen. Haynau
retreated, when he was mobbed, known as CLAY
nau's Refuge" have become bankrupt. The
reason of this was, that crowds Of visitors coming
lunch and dinner, fell off, and the keeper of the
hotel was ruined in consequence.
Improvements are to he made TO n considerable
extent in the city of London. Furnaces and fire.
places, used in manufactures, are to be compelled
to consume their own smoke, -nuisances are to be
removed, and part Of the area around ST. Paui's to
be laid into the public thoroug hares.
new steamer, called the Dragon-fy, has been
launched on Lake Wndermere.
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has been having
private theatricals, Ito which large audiences of
his friends were invited,) At Knebworh The
first night he invited all his farmers and tenanrv
the last two nights many Of the nobility and gen
try.
The charge for entering music at Stationers
Hall, London, is five shilIings.
LabIache was formerly huflo-actor in Italy
he was extremely popular, but was induced by
his wife 10 devote himself to a more extended
career.
1t is in contemplation, in Edinburg, to employ
nau0ers IN the cultivation of waste land.
The Registrar General has drawn up a schedule
for the ensuing year, in which every English
house -hol Ter will be included, in which name,
'ank, profession, etc, and every particular will
,e demanded. Persons refusing 10 give informa-
ion will be fined 65.
A sudden increase OF the deaths in London, has
'een observed, and greater mortality than at any
ime since April last. Diseases Of the organs Of
aspiration, and consumption, are the most preva-
Miss Catharine Hayes is en- gagged to sing in
Rome, as prina donna.
AS the men employed in HYDE Park, on the |
reat building for the exhibition, were leaving |
heir work, one evening, about two thousand of
hem sang in chorus " Rule Brttania, ~ and God
ave the Queen"
The French Government have recently ordered