Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-08-30
Later from Europe,

The steamship Baltic arrived at New York
on the 10th inst, after a remarkably short trip
of nine DAYS and thirteen hours, the shortest
ever made.
ENcLAsD.-The Ecclesiastical Titles AS
sumption act has received the royal assent
This bin is said to have been the joint produce
ton of her Majesty's Ministers, Mr.. Walpole,
Sir Frederick Thesiger, and Mr.. keogh.
Parliament was to be prorogued by the
Queen in person on the 9Th inst.
The Great Exhibition continues as attractive
as at first.
Notwithstanding the passage of the Ecclesi-
astical Titles bill, the Roman Catholic bishops
in Ireland persist in assuming the prohibited IT,
ties.
A report is current that two duchesses of
high rank and consideration at the court of
Queen Victoria have decided to abandon the
English church for that of Rome. One is said
to be the Duchess of Kent, the Queens moth
err; the other the Duchess of Sutherland, the
first lady in waiting.
The Queen has replied to an address in favor
of preserving the Crystal Palace, that the
question is too complicated to be decided at
the present time.
Mr.. Hobbs, the American locksmith, it is
said, will likely succeed in picking the famous
lock of Bramah Il Co. He had already, in
the course of a few days work, removed sever
al of the main bolts.
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have
adopted a petition to Government advocating a
reduction in the rate Of postage to America and
other countries. They also urge the necessity
of charging a small sum 1.-TWO pence) only on
ship-letters.
IRELANp.-A long spell of bad weather clo-
sed on Monday, the 4th inst. The crops are
very backward; the harvest scarcely begun; the
grain crop is likely to be light. The potato is
very luxuriant and promises a bautiful harvest,
though there are reports of disease in some To-
calities. H
The Midland Railroad, from Dublin to Gal
way, is in full operation, and high hopes are
entertained of a direct communication by steam
with America. Dublin is moving on the sub
ject.
Lords Arundel and Surrey were elected to
Parliament from Limerick without serious op-
position, on the lst inst. Mr.. Russell declined.
Lord John Russell has been burnt in efigy
in Limerick, on account of the Ecclesiastical
Titles bill.
FRANcE.-The Court of Assize at Douai
has just condemned the publisher of the Voir
du Proscrit, to three months imprisonment and
500 francs fine for two seditious articles. M.
Cremieux pleaded for the defendant.
Charles Hugo: editor of the Erenment is
lodged in the Conciergerie to undergo the
imprisonment to which he had been sentenced
for an attack on the respect due to the law.
Another clandcstine printing press has been
seized.
In the Legislative Assembly the bill to ena-
Bile the city of Paris to borrow fifty millions of
francs for the purpose of carrying on the inn
provements in the city was carried by an i'm
mense majority.
Mr.. DeIthiel, a Ministerialist, has been re-
turned for the Department ofthe Lot. Several
of the late elections have terminated in similar
results; so that the present Government may
be said to be increasing in strength.
The declining trade Of the capital and the
provinces has wonderfully increased during the
past few days, owing to the great influx Of for
eigners particularly English.
The accounts of the wheat crop this week
are much more favorable than those previously
The ensuing vintage, too, it is
thought, will be equal to a fair average crop.