Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-04-19
aleanings from European Journals
and PAPERS.

aleanings from European Journal
and Papers.
The Americans in Rome celebrated Wash
ington's birthday BY grand supper, in whic|
some three hundred ladies' and gentlemen par
ticipated.
The carnival this year passed off withou
much spirit. The Roman people are discon
tented, and would rather play at sword exer
else with their oppressors than to race horses
in the Corso. French bayonets are not goot
provocatives of mirth.
Letters from Paris say: "Louis Napoleon
is reported to desire an union with one O.
Queen Christmas daughters by Munoz."
Lately, in Belgium, a man shot his father
during a dispute, but abandoned an intention
to commit suicide on religious scruples." A
conscientious rascal that!
The French Government has decided to ex.
ecute a railway round Paris, for the purpose
Of connecting the termini of the different rail
ways.
AT Ysadon, lii England, d fine cock, Of the
silver pheasant breed, being chased by a little
ooy, turned upon its pursuer, and selling him
by the nose, struck his spurs into the temple
and cheek Of the little fellow, with such force
that one of them was left imbedded in the cheek
bone, nearly an inch in depth.
Mr.. James Wallack has returned to the
stage, after suffering a long and severe illness.
At the farewell dinner given to Macready
in London, Bulwsr presided. Bulwer, Ma
cready, Dickens, w. ]. Fox, Thackeray, Che.
Waller Bunsen and Others, made speeches, and
a Sonnet by Tennyson was read. Nearly all
the literary and dramatic celebrities of London
were present.
Another Artic expedition has just been fitted
out and was to sail from London so as to reach
Lancaster Sound by the middle of June.
The Duke of Brunswick and Mr.. Charles
Green made a balloon ascent, lately, with a
view of going to France, but when they had
reached Gravesend, the violence of the wind
shifted their course, and they were obliged to
land. They will make another attempt.
Great sensation has been lately caused at
Florence by an intended duel with pistols be-
tween two countesses, in consequence of a po-
litical dispute. One Of these ladies' had taken
active part in the war of Italian indepen-
dence, and the other was the wife of a distin-
guished diplomatist. The combatants were
on the ground and the pistols charged, when
fortunately their husbands arrived, and put q
stop to the affair.
At the Carmelite convent at Pontoise, a pic
ture by Murillo, called "Jesus Pasteur," has
been discovered. The painting is of
great beauty, and belongs to the Able Trou,
of the Carmelites.
The Russian Government has decided that
he thousandth anniversary of the founda-
lion of the Russian Empire, which according
20 the historians Of that country, dates from the
year S52, shall be celebrated next year with
he greatest pomp in all the cities and large
of the European and Asiatic provinces
If Russia.
The late Duke of New Castle, the bigotted
Tory, bequeathed the whole of his property to
lis second son, the eldest, to whom it would
lave legally fallen, not having been as staunch
protectionist as his father wished.
The French workingmen are e%ndeavoring to
ret up a second Worlds exhibition, in imita-
of that held in London. They offer to
'ay the expenses by subscription, if the 60
eminent will allow them.
The weekly Repeal meetings at Cancellation
Iall, have been adjourned till further notice, in
consequence of the want Of funds. So ends
)Connelism in Ireland.
1t is estimated that forty thousand persons
re confined to their beds, in Paris, by a pre-
ailing influenza.
NJ. Jules Coutin has left Paris for the Uni I
ID States, charged, by the Minister of Public |
Works, with the mission Of studying the rail. /
ray system of this country.
George Bentano, the banker of Frankfort, is
cad. He was a brother of Bettina Won Ar.
lin.
The estate of the late Baroness Rotherchild
as been valued for stamp duty, at f80,o00;
OF the late Marquis of Northampton, at
The cholera has been raging with great yio-
nee at Bombay, twenty-five hundred persons
aving died in a month.
A slight shock Of an earthquake was .expe-
enced at Calcutta, and a more severe one at
urrisaul, on the 9Th of January; another was
1t at Mooltan and Lahore while the moon
as under eclipse, OF the l7th.'
In the Heathcote divorce case, now pending
the House of Lords, the party crimina-
d is the lady'sown brother.