The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-21

The Cunard Company building four iron screw
steamships OF upwards OF 1000 tons each M builders
under contract that The nrel shall be ready Tor sea IN
January, and the others IN quick succession We have
not heard VIVA, slaon they are Tor.
According to the official statistics the number Of VISIT
2o5 500 The fullest day July Is then there
"a i21 persons III the builiiDg
There seems 10 be bu, ilile doubt that The Duke Of
Norfolk Las lett the communion ri The Church OF Rome,
the hereditary iauh OF the noble house OF Howard and
become member OF the Church OF England.
The family of the late KING OF the French, on being
consulted by "A depualion OF Orleanst pariisans as
their wishes about lie presidency declined to commit
themselves in favor of the Prince de Jolnve being
candidate but abs aimed from dsavowng or dlsapproyng
We learn from Denmark that the Grand Duke of Oden.
burg refuses the proposed arrangements Of
the succession in favor of the young Duke OF Gluck.
stadi
The Pope is about the city of Hamburg into
bishoprc
The Duchess OF Monipensier has safely given birth to
princess.
Ii is stated in the Bulletin de Paris that both the
French and English governments walchfully observ
ing the large purchase OF arms and accouemenis now
According 10 letters from Berne of the goth ult, the
damages caused in the by foundations
valued al 24oo0oo or abou, $4,000: Subscriptions
open all Switzerland 10 cover the losses OF the
inundation The city OF Berne has already subscribed
i2,JU0t
The conductors Of the Cologne Gazttte have received
an Injunction TO cease commenting on public affairs
Several oi The petty courts OF Germany about TO
vve The sale OF patents OF nobility IN order TO recruit the
finances OF their rulers.
Qaileet, director Of the BRUSSELS observatory while
making some observations during violent storm, was
win lis assistant. struck down hy electric shock and
their clothes set on fire. The flames were howey-
err extnguisbed by the RAIN which fell IN torrents and
they escaped with some burns their faces and hands
their hair also being scorched.
Consumption is more fatal than any other disease in
London. IL destroyed SIS IN the second three months
OF the present year.
A Mr. Poppy committed suicide few hours after wit
Messing the execution OF Groom. which he went 10 Nor
wich to see On his return home he observed that he
thought hanging very easy death went TO his
bes Tor leather thong, and then hanged himself
Ihackeray IS writing novel IN three volumes. TO be
published IN the winter The scene is IN England. in
The early part OF the eighteenth century, and Bogbroke,
Swift, Pore, and Steele figure among the personages
Blackwood Tor this month has a dscrlmnaiive article
on that preentous and ne.slded critic, Ruskin
An admirable payer in La Prose-, By Nj Snler, argues
that mouaenism has been destroyed general tenet
in Gemany-desroyed by the tyranny Of the absolutsl-,
the ueachery OF Prussia, and The pedaDtic ineapacty
OF the docrnairos There, as IN France and Italy, the
battle must be wsged between the two OF alb
soniism or republcanism.
A paper in the London Leader shows striking uni.
fomity IN the conduct OF the European despos fcr it
shows that in Baden discriminating postage system,
double taxes political imprisonment, and courts martial,
cypress the people quite much they are oppressed ~
Naples or Rome,
The great railroad between ST. Petersburg and Mos
cow-nexrto the Efe. the creates, N the word-has
been formally opened by The Emperor OF Russia.
The London Morning Chronicle mentions the curious
fact that a second crop OF wheat which is now in
flower, has sprung up in those fields that either
much injured entirely destroyed by tue late terrible
hail .stoim and IN those fields which
after the second crop has sprung up, and appears
likely be ready for the sickle by the latter end oil Sep
TENDER. In those where the first crop left
standing it is considerable, and the farmers much
puzzled in deciding whether the FIRST crop should be
hced to the second the second TO the FIRST
as both cannot be secured
The arbrators in the lock controversy, is called
have decided that Mr.. Hobbs, the American locksmih
picked The famous Bramab lock within the time limited
and IS entitled to the f2O0 reward.
The English papers speculate at great length upon the
invasion OF Cuba-mos, OF them IN tone which indl-
Gates the convection that whatever the Yankees under
take they would DO and when the news of The disaster
came they were relieved. The Times. however, aays
that the execution OF the fifty nothing less than
butcbery
sale has lately taken place in London of the manu-.
scripts and books OF the poet Gray The chief ol
the AUTOGRAPH of the Original copy of the "Eegy in
Country Cnurch.yard." the "Long Story" the songs OF
+" fhyrss when We parted saore," and "Midst Beauty
and Pleasures Gay Triumph to Languish,r &c The
other volumes comprise msceame correspondence,
The poets notes while reading metaphysical papers, odes
&c, the whole bound in olive coored morocco, with ee-
gan, borders. This lot produced G5oo The remaining
principal lots were Chas Churchilrs Poetcal Works
two volumes, in morocco. with many OF Grays MS
notes, sold for Ell Edmund Hydes Earl OF Clarendon.)
"Hsory OF the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England"
began the year 16li, written by himself, E4s los
MS. note books used by Gray during his travel. on
the continent and his journeys TO England, Ca Lin
r@us "Systema Nature, per REGINA" Be, E36 Millions
Poetical Works, two volumes morocco, having Ms.
authors, ancient and modern, G37 the valuable col