The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-11-10
Foreign Items.

The list Of awards at the Great Exhibition occu-
pies twenty -four columns Of the London Times
Advices received in London state that the Brit
ish troops had experienced another severe repulse
at the Cape Of Good Hope, and that ten thousand
more have been asked for.
The Roman authorities, instead of facilitating
the residence Of foreigners increases the tax the
carte dc sej0sy, and insists on every member Of
family, the children excepted, having = separate
license to reside in the holy city.
A priest Of the name Of PROT has been con-
demned by the courts of Vense to four years i'm
prisonment in fortress, for having belonged to
secret society.
The papers announce an act Of amnesty, granted
BY the Emperor, for all political prisoners in the
Lombardo Venetian kingdom, whose term Of i'm
prisonment does not exceed one year.
Hon. R. F. Walker, late U. 8. Secretary of the
Treasury, has written letter to the town clerk of
Southampton in answer to an invitation to be pre-
sent at the kossuth banquet, accepting the invita-
ton, and expressing his high opinion Of the Hun
garian leader.
Queen Isabel, Of Spain, completed her twenty
| first year on the 10TH 1t was celebrated with the
usual salutes, hosting Of the national flag the
public ed6ces, ETC., and is also kept holiday at
| the Bolsa.
The English Mediterranean squadron continued
in the Bay of Rosas on the 4th and attracted num-
bers Of persons to visit the vessels causing great
deal of animation to prevail there.
| The Arehduke Ferdinand of Austria returned to
Malaga from Granada the 4th, and embarked
| on board an Austrian frigate which was lying in
| the bay.
The Epoea states that the sentence Of death
passed by the court-martia against Lieut.. Vita, Of
| the engineer regiment for the murder committed
by him at ST. Sebastian, has been confirmed by the
higher court, but that the sentence has been com.
| muted to imprisonment for life.
Count de Villanueva, former intendant in the
1 Of In yvh ho ad baT
| arrived in Madrid
Mr.. Sanders, young artist from Mississippi, ii
making some good sketches from life chiefly por
l traits of the flower-girls Of Florence. He leave.
for Rome in few weeks, at which place hi.
brother, also an artist Of great merit, is Untet
| States Consul.
Mr.. Crawford is occupied in making a colossa
group of statues, by order of the American Gov
srnment They are to be equestrian, and abou
twelve feet in height. He is, just now, MAXIM
those of Washington, Patrick Henry, and Jeffel
son, and is to receive $1OO, 900 for the three. Th
whole group will be composed Of seven fgurel
and is to be in bronze at the celebrated four
dry at Munich,
On the 9th September, the Austrian militar
tribunal, at Leghorn, condemned five men to b
hung, and to be sent to the galleys, for murd,
and robbery; but in consequence of no hangma
being forthcoming, the sentence was commute
into shooting for two, and imprisonment for Il
Il otner IouI ne Two cuiprlb were docOToln2
| shot through the back on the morning of the 49,
by platoon Of Austrian soldiers, in the prsssne
! | of 10,000 spectators.
A dispatch from the Spanish Naval Command
at the Philippine Islands, of the 9th Of June,
| tons sharp combat between five Spanish felucc,
and four piratcal vessels called pancos, manned
, Moors which were captured on the Sd of May, O
the Island Of Paraguay being boarded by Il
. | Spaniards. The loss OF the Moors is calculated
) | hundred men. One Of the Spanish feluccas BILE
| up, occasionng the loss Of about twenty men, ar
| there were two officers and eleven soldiers al
sailors killed, and one officer and sixteen sodie
wounded in the action.