New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-09
FOREIGN ITEMS.

are soon to appear il two volumes, octave. Mp.
Samuel Bailey, the author Of Essays on the For
nation and Publication Of Opinion has nearly
ready a volume called The Theory Of Reasoning.
The Nile Notes is warmly praised by some OF tie
principal London journals. Aariottis Italy In
| ls4s is announced. A new novel BY Mrs. Troll
lope will shortly appear with the title OF Second
Lore, OF Beauty and IHtsLleet Another novel,
iSilrood, 10 praised pretty strongly.
-Oersted the eminent Danish naturalist, died
at Copenhagen on the 18th ult. His age was II.
he was the diIcoverer Of Electro Magnetism.
Green peas are imported into England from
Madeira.
Mile Caroline Duprez was to make her de-
but in London on the 22d uls., in LSeiG.
in Ulster, Ireland, $4,000 acres are devoted
to the culture Of fax.
"A new daily paper was begun at warsaw by
Count Henry Krewuski, the novelist on the LIST
ult It's title is D=iennek Wrssa'cski, which
means The Warsaw Journal.
The Spanish Government has suppressed the
post of ambassador, though in extraordinary cases
it may name ENJOYS of that grade.
Fourteen persons were killed at Stockport
near Liverpool, on the 18th ult, by the explosion
of boiler in Mr. Morelands cotton factory. The
boiler huge cylinder 40 feet long and about IL
inches in diameter, weighing II tuns and having
its fire in the center Of one end, suddenly gave
way from the pressure Of steam it contained, rose
from the immense bed Of brckwOrk in whicals
had been fixed, and shot like an arrow distance
of from 40 to IS yards, through wall OF immense
thickness, about twelve feet, destroying large
portion OF the building, and causing portions of
the floors and machinery to fall through on the
top ii. To add to the calamity, before many Of
the hands rot killed could be extricated, the
boiler, which carried mass Of fire with it, set the
building in flames and these spreading with great
rspidity completed the work Of destruction.
The tenor singer ssighelli, now in London, is
South. German by birth, and in his vernscular
ID named stiegele. Like many Others OF bis trade
he finds it convenient to rebsptize himself in
Italian.
The Russian Lieut.. General Hasford, who
has had command in the Dauuban Principalities
il made Governor. General of Siberia, and Com
mander Of the forces there.
The prisoners lately taken by the Turks
among the insurgents in Bosnia, were marched
from Belgrade under escort, bound together by
twenties, with heavy chain some two inches in
diameter fastened TO an iron ring around the neck
of each. Those ct each end of the chain had big
padocks on their breast, with which the chain
was fastened. SO heavy was the chain, that each
prisoner had to hold up his piece in order not to
be dragged by the others to the ground.
The consumption Of beer in Munich for the
wear 1850 was 100000 Of quarts. The city
laws tax Of half kreutzer on quart this
tax nearly pays the whole municipal expenses.
The patent omnibuses newly invented By Mr.
]. A. Franklin Of London, great things, if they
are anything at all. Around the vehicle runs a
gallery by which each passenger goes to his place,
being admitted thereto by private door which
opens on that place alone. His seat is the per
lection OF comfort, and before him is mirror in
which he can study his own physognomy undis-
turbed. A pipe Of gatta percha eads 20 'hs
driver, with whom he confer whenever he de
sres, whether philosophy religion or literature
The price of ride is sd.
From Berlin excursions to the Worlds Fair
are advertised for 100 thAlers, (s7sl The excur
sers can 60 at any time between May and Oct.
l. by way Of Ostende or Hamburg and stay
week in London.
Greece had, in 1880, 4,O46 commercial sea
vessels employing 10000 sailors
The Emperor of Russia has presented to the
King of Prussia the chain of brilliants belonging
to the order Of St. Andrew. The order itself the
Emperor retains The chain Is worth million
thalers, ts72O,Ooo)
There has Just been sold at London colec-
ton Of ancient manuscripts and commentaries on
- fafh If Efr CharlaE
Lyell. copy Of the first edition OF the D'U'HG
! COnmedta, printed at Fulgno in 1892, with the
first ten pages copied in antique writings brought
| f29 los. A beautiful manuscript Of the same
poem, of the XVIII Century, finely illuminated,
sold for $50, There were 3O2 lots in the sale and
the product was about 1880.
"A large mine which appears not 10 have been
worked for a thousand years has been accidentally
discovered near Wisloch in Baden. Il is sup
posed to have been worked by the Romans who
| mined only for silver and lead, and left every
thing else. In the mine are about fifty thousand
tuns OF eadnuia, or oxide of zinc, substance Of
whose value the Romans were ignorant, but
which is now used in the manufacture Of zinc
paint. 1t has hitherto been supposed that the
mines in New Jersey were the only ones contain
ing zinc in this form.
The only monarch, says an English journal
who in spite of his dsthrOnement, seems likely to
regain bis crown and his influence is the over
praised and over abused ex-King George Hudson.
Having by the recent rise in Railway shares ae
quired an additional half million Of tin, and having
never for one hoUr lost any Of his brass, he is
again coming into favor with the worsbiPers Of
Mammon, whose name is Legion, and will be by
no means short Of guests and aatserers at bis sp
preaching "Ball in High Life," at his very tall
mansion at Albert Gate, Hyde Park. bis career
has been almost a Justification Of the worldly
wisdom Of that respectable parent, whose advice
to his son was, Ger money-honestly if you