The republic., 1851-06-07
Fersss. us..~s.

THE BRIrisH NAvs.--A rct4rn. pxinssd 81 q q
instance OF MIR. Sydney Herbert. eoassys tks a
lowing Information relative 10 navel slks~ss
There are ON the present hat sdsns.sA, I, viss-
ndmirals. and II resr-admirsls. Who have so<
served sufficient time captains 70 eutills thsu ~
their flags. Amongst the first hundrvd "a sbs
captains list 81 are in the saue prsdscsm~ns. ssa
among the second hundred. ~. 6incs orpssnslsss.
1896 2Is officers accepted the retirement retsssa
-admirals retired captains. of vhon " have
died since their retirement. There now fssli
pay IL nag officers, 15 captains. 80 cosnmsadsss.
aud 43s licuteuants. The number IL ofIicsss hesd.
ing employment, but not pay. V ~ follovs
captans, g under the admiralty and uadss ~
customs; % commanders, Of whom 5s are un6ss
under the customs.
THE ScREw ron SrxA MEns.--In bis examsualiou
before Lord Joceiyn's steam navigation couuni1tso
Captain Claxton, whose connsxiou with the coa,
struction and sailing performances Of the Great
Western and Great Britain screw steamer ,ss
gained for him deservediy- earned reputation.
gave evidence in favor OF iron steamers and III ac
screw, which, he AYERS, must, many years
clapse, be applied universally a. the motive power
Of going vessels To IRON built veasels Cspsain
Claxton gives decided preference. the advantaess
which he ascribes to them being durability, insx-
pensiveness In repairs, greater capacity In proper
ton to tonnage, than wooden vessels for CAIRO,
healthiness, and swift sailing. Az regards duSa.
bity, he described the state Of the Great Britain
when lying for many months exposed 70 series of
heavy gales in Dundrum bay. II was also men
eAoASu thosB uiuiuuBu quantity OF COCkIG8
cumulated on the bottom of the Great Britain since
lying In still water at Liverpool was 90 large NJ 20
sell for E5 los. in the market, no i'll effects were
apparent when they were scrapod of.
death ny LIaHrNINo.--1hs Journal olss Vosrss
says: "On Sunday the llth instant ubout EIGHT Ia
the evening, when TIE church of Fraizs was filed
with people listening to the evening service, the
electric fluid fell on the outward wall oftho edifco,
breaking in pieces large cornice- stone At one Of
the angles, and then entering into the organ Ioft
it carried away the shoe which man wore at the
time, but without doing him any injury. The fluid
then ran down one of the pillars and killed q man
standing at the foot Of it, II next struck throe
persons seated on a bench, bruising two OF them
and killing the third. At this moment il was dis
covered that the fluid had set some of the wood
work on fire, and immense confusion cnsued, each
person endeayoring to get out first In tho midst
OF the confusion young man was observed to re-
main motonIess in his seat, paying no attention to
the noise; and some person going up to warn him
OF the danger ne was incurring found to his horror
having killed him! The fire was soon after got
under, and no further damage was DONE"
M. DE BERlor, the great vionist, has immortal
lied his attachment to the memory Of his wife, Ma
dame Malibran, by the execution of life-like bust
Wellington will not commemorate the victory of
Waterloo this year.
EARTHQUAKES IN AsIArIc TuRKEY.-We extract
the following from letter dated Constantinople
April 49, "All accounts that reach US from Rhodes
and Maori are repcte with details of tho calami-
tous earthquakes which have taken place since the
latter part OF February. Strong shocks were felt
daily; all the stone buildings of Maori and Levipsy
had been upset, crushing the people who happened
to be underneath. The shocks appear to come
from the southwest, and are the strongest expert
enced In this country for perhaps centuries past
The government has sent steamer with stock of
provlsions In order TO give immediate assistance
70 the most necessitous OF the sufferers. Osman
racha has likewise been ordered to Maori to draw
up report Of the extent of the destruction
RAILROAD THROUGH THE AFRICAN DEsRRT-
The viceroy Egypt has sanctioned the project of
railroad from Alexandria by way of Cairo, to the
without delay. With the most skiful European
engineers at his commapd. and able at any time 70
summon one hundred thousand Arabs and Copts
TO- the labor, the energetic and enterprising Ibra-
MN fasha will not allow long tmc to elapse be-
fore the whistle Of the locomotive will wake the
solitudes OF Petra and Mount Sinai, scare the ma
rauding Bedouin out of his wits, and render the
journey from Alexandria to the Holy Land a. easy
and as rapid as tho passage from Buffalo to New
York. The traveller will start from the base Of
Cleopatra's Needle, reach Cairo in six hours, re-
iresh himself at mammoth depot in the midst Of
the ancient shores Of the Red Sea in two days after
leaving the Delta of the Nile.
railroad through the scene ofIsrael's fight and
rharaon's Keen pursuit-through the regions
where the silence of death has rcigned ever since
amid thunderings and loud elemental strife, the
law was given from Mount Horeb-now for the
frst time in thousands of years to be disturbed by
the clanking and roar of modern machinery. Here
Job drove his numerous ocks to the great marts Of
the South. Over this hallowed ground his contcm-
porary Moses led the murmuring and mutinous
Hebrews to the Land Of Promise. In this now
drcar solitude the hand of cultivated architectural
science scooped magnificent palaces out of the solid
rock, and bid sumptuous mansions and temples
and mighty cities rise at its mandate.
This was the path Of the multitudinous hosts of
Amru the raurcp of Nah alolh 4; &.
nacal and victorious thousands from Syria to Cairo
and Alexandria, poured his dense dark masses upon
southern Europe and aimed to subject the Cross to
the Crescent These vast and arid deserts over
which tho bald and rocky Sinai frowns in stern
grandeur, long afterwards trembled beneath the
tread OF armed millions, whirlng like some horri-
BILE tempest through the scene Of Israels trial and
punishment He who, from the position Of an hum-
bic subaltern, reached the throne of the Bourbons
by series OF usurpations the most wonderful on
record, would rival the fame and miracles of the
closed over the cngulfed chariots and horsemen of
Pharaoh, and exhibits the tcmerity of attempting
to pass dry through the stormy waters Of the
Arabian sea.
with the painting and coughing of the iron horse.
within view OF the spot where the burning bush ex-
hbited Its mysterious sign to the trembling Noses
where the tables Of the law were brokeninto frag-
mcnts, and over which the pillar OF cloud by day,
and OF fire by night lowered. and guided the peO-
pie Of Israel to the lovely region of the Phstincs
and Canaanitcs.
The tour of the Holy Land, which, in the days of
the Crusaders, was pilgrimage of imminent peril,
and accompanied by privations and sufferingv lit
tie short of martyrdom, will soon be accomplished
biy a party from New York or st. Louis. within the
limit of > single season. The tomb of Aaron, the
site of Calvary the Mount of Olives and the shores
OF the beautiful Sea of Gailec, will soon be as ac-
cessble az the Tower of London the Lake of Como
are now and all the scenes of scripture history be-
come familiar to the eye, and commonplace in the
mind Of almost every transatlantic tourist.
NAPLEs.-The Official Journal of the Ttao S;ciiies
publishes statistical account Of the population Of
number OF inhabitants amounts TO 4l6,475 souls,
viz: 203,433 males and 2l2,S92 females There
were l4,99l births in 1850 viz 1905 males and