New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-02
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1t is called EUerard TNasiaH, and boasts for h.
author Nr. Thomas Forester. Lady Emmellu.
Stuart Worileys Naraiire Of Trarel, an q.
United States, &c, during the year 1850. is an.
nounced by Bentley. We trast her lady,hio'.
travels are more entertaining than her poetry
The same publisher advsTtises No60dys Sea a,
the Adventures Of Percivsl May berry. The
RtrelaioEs Fl Russia is out in a third edition.
-Hsndel's SGmsOa was recently performed n
London under the direction OF Costa, and with
decided success. The instrumental music was
excellent, and the principal yocalists, Misses
Brush and DOlbey, Messrs. Jockey, n Phillips.
T. Williams and Whitworth are highly praised.
"A cheap editionof the writings Of the Coursesr
Hahn-Hahn is about to be published ia Germany
under her supervision. This disproves the state.
ment that she has become Catholic, as, IL il
were true, she would rather burn some Of her
books than reprint them.
Putting is carried higher at Paris than else.
where, or else writers are harder pushed for mo.
ney, il we may Judge by the fact that no len
Mterateur than Alexander Dumas ills paifs at
length over bis own name, lottery In which che
main prize is lump Of gold worth $4,000. He
dence. Among other arguments to make you buy
tickets, he says: Lotteries OF great snIiqui.
ty; a trustworthy tradition afrms tina. the sons
of Noah, before quitting the Ark, played at
INQUIRE, species Of lottery still in use among the
lazs0rOni Of Naples" The following 10 a cach-
er: Is not every thing in the world lottery
Life is perpetual lottery for the profit Of death;
love, the lottery of the heart; ambition, the lot.
terry Of the brain the future, the lottery of ALL"
Two Chinese merchants, Ahuug and BY. have
arrived at erin on their way TO England to visit
the Exhibition. They have preferred the over
land journey through Russia to the sea.voyase
which some of their associates are making in
junk.
I'm newspaper Of Munich is an advertise
ment Of n new article, specially manufactured Tor
the thirsty population of that ctyi 1t is "beer.
watch" which registers how much OF that faid
the wearer imbibes; the maker recommends
these assistants to the frequently falling human
memory for the "solidity of their mechanism"
and their cheapness; they cost forms 30
kreutzers each. Another advertisement ia the
same paper announces q " dumping balI' for the
last night Of the Carnival
IKE Empire Of Austria generally isremarkable
for the proportion of Legitimate children among
the births, and its Italian Provinces are not much
better than the rest By the statistical tables en-
listing since 1860, it is proved that the number OF
foundlings has been increasing year by year In an
almost geometrica ratio. In 1861 4l0 infants
were abandoned in 1850 there were no less than
1860, or more then eigh: times more, although
-. l.. l.. 10, IL hat uaa From
1860 to 1850 tbs number of foundlings had been
doubled, and the same occurred Id 1899 with re-
spect t. 1880 At present tho founding hospitals
have 1924 inmates. At Brescia, the ratio OIL
foundlings to the inhabitants is as ] to 1885, m
Como and Sondrio to 364 at Pavia. TO PSI AZ
Esntna to 33s and at Milan, to 70. IL has
been at the same time remarked that che number
of illegitimate births has diminished and tina
foundlings born out OF wedlOck are only 30 per
cent Of the total number Of foundings, so that the
enormous proportion Of 10 per cent are abandoned
by their lawful parents.
Louis Napoleon has broken with Veron, the
Editor of the Constitutional b. Veron, as 1t Ia
said, suggested, on the occasion OF bis last inter.
view with the President the prudence of keeping
well with the press, to which Louis Napoleon re-
piled, "Bak, la p,eSse ne peut rten y
Tho very name OF Poland is now extln'
guishsd from official language in Russia. Tho
country 10 now known TO that language solely 10
the Government Of New Russia, and 1t 10 as per-
fectly incorporated into the Empire as any other
Province.
The most eminent German authors are not
badly paid in fact, the writers OF scientific
works are as well If not better rewarded 10 Ger
many thanlelsewhere Dieffenbach received Tor
bis book on Operative Surgery some $500; and
Perthes the publisher, OF Hamburg, has paid 70
Neander, on the sales of a single work, more
than 500, O0O exclusive of the interest his heirs
still have in it, Poets like INLAND, FrelliBrssh,
Lenau, Geibel, have also received as much Is
81, coo or $4,000 on the sales OF angle little
volume.
"A musical prodigy, who is compared with
Mozart has appeared in Germany. IL boy
of 7, the son OF clergyman at Iserlohn. Inc
ineness Of his ear is Incredible Lately, having
heard q difficult choral On the church organ no
went home and not only repeated it all on 1ns
piano. bat transposed it twelve times. MS tai
ent is as great for other instruments.
Julius Cornet of Hamburg understands 30
different llDguages, not in the superficial manner
of Elihu Burrit., but 10 well that he is able TO
write them with correctness and to make transla-
tons from one into the other. He has issued
circular to the German public offering his services
az a universal translator, and refers TO the most
prominent publishers of Leipsic, whom he has
long served in that capacity.
Victor Hugo has Published nothing for sew
eral years, ia consequence Of a contract with bis
publisher, who paid him large sum for so doing.
The term has nearly expired, when he will at
once issue three volumes Of poetry and twelve o!
romances. He is now engaged in finishing novel
entitled Misery, which is spoken Of by those who
have saan nortiona of IL m n Ynagnifcent work