American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-02
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH
! EUROPEAN ITEMS.

Inc London journals are exercised by the
Bloomer movement in the United States but
are evidently SO surprised and overwhelmed by
the universal protest against petticoats, that
tthey can say nothing, but quote the sayings of
the American press. .
The Great Exhibition attracts several Euro
pean notabllities to London Gen. Naryaez is
there, and M. Thiers has lust left. full of adni
ration for the wonders Of the Exhibition. We
find that I'M. Theirs asserts that there can be
no dispute as to the high position France holds
at the Exhibition, especially in her silk manu-
factures. he was struck with the fact that
France is pre- eminent in all the articles of lux
pry, which none but the wealthiest can buy !;
whereas England excels in the productions usu-
ally consumed by the middle and poorer classes.
Thus democratic France works for the rich, and
aristocratic England works for the poor
DIR. MERLE D'AUB1GSE, also President of the
Theological Seminary at Geneva, and the famous
Historian of the Reformation, has been preach
ing, to the great indignation and horror of
certain sd. c. L." in the Chronicle, at the Wo-
burn Chapel, an Episcopal church, in Tavistock-
place. The alarmed Doctor of Laws announces
that by this admission of his Evangelical Excel
lency to an Episcopal pulpit, DR.. d'Aubigne is
liable to three months imprisonment and the
Bishop to partial suspension for one year ~
M. DUPIN, President of the French Assembly,
met the Queen as he was leaving the Crystal
Palace, and was presented to her majesty, in
company with several distinguished Frenchmen
staying in London. t ala Aa "A.
What Yankee, rowing through Europe, has
tipped cigars with amber on the mouth end,
thus anticipating cigar-tubes and avoiding the
rankness Of the weed? ".''.>.@' .@
A judicious Journal says Of the shilling days
of the Crystal Palace: t4a IL a.@aa ~ 2
"To our own fancy, the influx of the real
people has been the crowning grace of the Great
Exhibition That which at one time seemed in
danger of degenerating into brilliant lounge
has now permanently assumed the character of
national spectacle" .t'sM &a@ t@. i.s
Russian gentlemen wishing to travel are now
obliged to file written declarations that they will
not go to London. s#1-
Lord JOHN RUSSELL has announced that the
English Government will pay the passages Of
ninety Hungarans to New York, and will pro-
vide for their subsistence in Southampton. Ma,
turally the Gear decidedly prefers not to visi
the Great Exhibition. " .l>s .sa
| JULES JANIN announces the return to Paris
| of Mile Caroline Logo, whom, he says, the
| New Workers applauded beyond measure, call
ing her the Jenny Lind of Equestrianisin. lie
makes use of another phrase, new in Feuilleton
literature, but natural and characteristic. Ra.
chel is now said to deign to play Phedre, &C..
and the viyacious JULES says that Mile Caro-
line will deign to mount her favorite horse, Ju
| piter. saG .g. H.s #*
At the present time the competition on th
Huh and Hamburg line Of steamers is so grea
that they are bringing wheat from the latter
port into England as ballast-in other words d:
freight, gratis. a...
Out of II population of 700, according to the
last census, 81 agriculturists have emigrated
to America from Blandesburton, near Beverley,
Yorkshire.
On Tuesday evening the splendid Liverpool
terminus of the London and North Western
Railway was lighted experimentally, with the
electric light, with great success; one small
machine superseding all the ordinary lights.
From return which has been obtained at
The instance of Mr.. Anderson, il appears that
the number of steam-vessels that were registered
At the port of London on the 1st of January,
1851, was 3S2; at Newcastle 1873; Liverpool
~; Shields 90; Hull "a; Sunderland 32
Bristol 81; Southampton "a; Glasgow 80;
Leith %; Aberdeen Is; Dundee 10; Dublin
"A Cork 20 Belfast 10, &C. &c.
Favorable accounts relative to the growing
crops in Ireland continue to be received.