The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-07-19
European News.


European News.
From our files Of papers received by the Can.
ada, arrived at Boston, we make the following ex-
tracts:
Great Exhibition Iems.-The Globe says that
at coffee house in the neighborhood of Covent
Garden, S6 foreigners sleeping, averaging
three and half in bed, although the house has
not healthy accommodation for a quarter of the
number.
Messrs. Watterhouse of Dublin have, in their
collection in the Crystal Palace, an entire silver
tea service, made out of four penny piece This
Liliputian contribution is perfect in all its parts,
consisting Of tea pot, with movable lid, cream
ever, sugar basin and tongs, butter knife, twelve
cups and saucers, cake plates, spoons, etc. The
ingenious artist is Mr.. Pearsall, Of Dublin dem
tst.
NJ Kiss celebrated group in bronze, repre-
senting an Amazon encountering lion, has been
purchased by the Prince of Prussia, as present
to her Majesty. The zinc model of the same work
ted States for e., 500 1t is said that Kiss has re-
ceived commission for two other models of the
same, for persons in the United States.
Two new and remarkable contributions have
just been made to the collection in Hyde Park one
OF these is a magnificent dressing case from Buck
the other is an immense black diamond in the
rough state from Bahia, contributed by Mr. May
er, Of Liverpool, SO hard that it has hitherto de.
fied the lapdaries to polish it, and weighing $50
carats.
A proposal is seriously entertained in the me-
tropos of pleasure, Paris, for eight days festi-
val, splendid fete, to which all nations are to be
invited The object is to draw to Paris the torrent
OF visitors which have gone to London, and to
answer the English Exhibition by something
more splendid still. The fete is to cost 500, 900
francs.
The Globe states that the complete inactivity Of
business in the city at this moment is attracting
general attention. There is little doing in the va
rlous markets, and the whole public feeling is CEN
tered in the Exhibition.
Bells Life in London recently stated that lady
had lost no less than 100000 on the Derby. The
Limerick Chronicle says the lady is the only
daughter of the poet Lord Byron Ada, sole
daughter of my house and heart"
The Bristol Times has spread report that the
late Richard Lalor She'll was poisoned by the Cath
ocs of Florence, because he was favorable to the
circulation of the Bible.
rival of H. M. steamer Centaur, from the coast of
Africa, on the 13th which had called off the Grand
canary, and reported that the cholera had made
its appearance in that island
A letter from Rome. in a Genoa paper, states that
two French officers having, on the 18th, bought
cigars In different paris of the town, and lighted
them, they suddenly exploded and wounded the
smokers faces, and one of them, it adds, lost an
eye by the explosion.
body of Highlanders. numbering upwards of
200, tenants of Sir John Mathesons estates, in the
island of Lewis, lately embarked a, Ooan for
America.
1t is snrmised that the Princess Charlotte, daugh-
ter of The King Of the Belgians is intended as a
wife for the Prince of Wales. This is taking to
MAJ 'ch making rather early.1
IN the West Indies an experiment has been
made for the production of gas from the Trinidad
blnmen. One hundred pounds of the biumen, it
Is said, made about 900 feet of gas of great puriy
and at slight cost as compared with coal gas.
A monastery, 200 feet in length; and to cost
fl2 900, is to be erected at Edgbason. near Bir.
mingham There will be church also.
The Madrid Gazette of the 10th publishes an
order from the Queen for one of her Ministers
to proceed TO Seville on the approaching occa.
sion Of the accouchement of her Royal High.
ness ne the Duchess de Montpensier. The corps
diplomatique, and deputation of the grandees Of
Spain are invited to attend, in order to do honor
to the event.
Alphabetical Honors.-Alphabetica appendages
to names are becoming ridiculous. In an adver-
,!sement OF sermon. which appears in The Dub.
lin Mail, the author REV. Mr.. Carson) has pinned
to TO- his name M B T C DFRCS SICTP
W." We have (says the Weekly News) made
the appendages more formidable by taking away
The full points; but at best it is a puzzle The
.iateshead Observer said, We lake Mr.. Carson
to TO be U Decor of Medicine; Bachelor of Arts of
Trinity College, Dublin; Fellow of the Royal
college OF Surgeons, Ireland and Chief Trum.
peter to the Prince of Wales "
The statement that the Briti:h mail steamers
would shortly sail twice week, between Liver.
POOL and New York, is entirely without founda-
ton.
Another witness, George Moore, of Orkney, has
come forward to testify to The existence of tiaces
OF Sir John Franklin, in the foim of a cairn in
Jones Sound. Lady franklin is still sojourning
at Stromness, Scotland
Mass Catherine Hayes Who ehall ot,oropt En-
estimate the impression which lhe "Swan of Erin"
VIII produce in her Irish ballad singing on an
American audience! How her hearers will be
moved hNm, with The harp that once thro' Tara's
nails, or Savourneen Dheelish," we can easily
understand. We know how touchingIy beautiful
Is hattys voice, how irresistible the paihos and
expression OF her singing, how simple, unpreend-
ing and pure is her Style. Since the days of Mss
sIephens-another @ Katy, by the way, although
not another Irish Katty-ho ballad singing ha, been
heard which can bear the slightest Comparison to
mat Of Catherine Hayes, and above all, no Irish
ballad singing. Catherine Hayes will land on the
shores OF America as The spirit of Irish mlnstresy
which descends from above. shedding light and |
beauty around: Her voice will recall the glores
OF the past. The strings of her harp will be- as
golden chords to strike memory into life The good
genius of Ireland will fall upon Columbia, and the |
New World will be bettered by the advent of
Catherine Hayes. Such will be the effects of
music in an inspired artist.
''S e'tohtiOu VI rTduCo mas Decn directed TO the |
of the Committee on the Revision of |
the Constitution, of which NJ. de Tocqueve has |
now oeen named reporter. Nine votes were given
70 w. os iocqueville, five to M. de- Broglie, and |
Two TO M. Odillon Barrot By majority Of eight
woes % 70 seven The following proposition was car.
union of the Rue des Pyramides: "The LerisIs. |
tive Assembly, taking into consideration the llth
article Of the Constitution, expresses desire for
that article" W
M. de Tocqueville, in his last .peecb mad.
several declarations which. if embodied in the
report, will cut the ground from under the Bona.
Partlsts He said, among other things, if the Gov.
eminent had exceeded its powers in taking the
initiative on the petitions it ought to be alluded to
IN the report. That they ought to insert in their
resolutions declaration to maintain the Republic
nay, more, that the revision was demanded in
republican spirit. He proposed simply to tell the
nation that for the present it was irnpossihle 10