Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-04
FOREIGN ITEMS.

| Tho Hon. ABBorT LAWRENCE and Lady are at present
on visit to Ireland.
further sweeping spn the way of repression been
sorted 10 by the French Government placing the department
of the Ardeche in state Of SIEGE This is adjoining de
parmen to that Of the Rhone which includes the city
Lyons, and has long been under martial law Coupled with
the arrests in Paris last week. the prosecution of
portions Of the press and the proceedings in connexion with
the alleged conspiracy Lyons this Is viewed
as confirming the worst suspicious to the hollow power of
the existing authorities and renders it merely question of
time to when they will exhaust all the Of coercion
Another of vcTon Hueo has been condemned to nine
months imprisonment and fined 1000 francs, for article
on the expulsion Of foreigners from France.
From Naples have information that sentence of death
has been pronounced upon forty prisoners of State ncu
ding Deputies two minister's ambassador and
priests It believed that the King would commute the
penalty.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the coronation Of the EN-
of Russia celebrated the 5h instant with great
spendor.
Reports om Ireland indicate that emigration to the United
States will continue to increase. The harvest Ireland 10
very ne In the county of Cork and in other Districts The
sale Of fax has greatly decreased that large quantities
| are left in the hands of the growers.
The wire Of the SU TELEGRAPH betUeen the En-
gsh and French coasts not yet finished though Is be-
Jog made at the rate of mile and half per day. thus
described:
"The line Of communication consists Of four copper wires
Of the thickness Of ordinary bewre cased gutta perch,
and twned with corresponding number Of hempen strands
stepped in mixture Of tar and taow into rope Of about
inch diameter. Another strand similarly prepared wound
ansversey round this and finally wires Of galvanized
iron, third OF inch thick are twined round this
central CORE and form solid andsat the time flexible
casing. The WHOLE when thus completed, has the appear
Of ordinary four and quarter inch metallic cable.
The machinery by which this effected extremely simple,
and the work proceeds night and day, with the utmost regu-
ary huge coil is thus being formed in one continuous
piece which will finally attain the length Of twenty -four miles
The weight Of the entire rope when finished estimated,
will be from one hundred and seventy hundred and
eighty TONS From time TO time the work proceeds
gavanc current passed through the Wes and their
Quoting power is tested by galvanomeer.
'The starting point the English which has been
fixed the most advantageous, Of the
ure Of the beach and the comparative freedom from the dan
ger Of ships anchong in the immediate vcniy the South
Foreand. The lne will be conducted down shaft in the
Cliff and along short tunnel communicating with at right
angles to the beach, where proposed to bury at some
considerable depth beneath the shnge the lowest level Of
ebb tide The spot selected the French coast for similar
reasons is situated about four miles the south of Calais
The village Of Sanngae The beach this point
sists entirely Of sand and ridge Of sand hills The line from
the South Foreand to Sannga although not The shortest
that could be drawn between the coasts is that which
presents the ewest chances Of accident The points at the
two extremes those where the low mark nearest
the high and the character Of the bed Of the channel lying
between far be ascerained by careful soundngs
offers pecuiaies likely affect the integrity Of the
duc,ing line"
Mrs Honocks, huckser in Preston MARKET aged rs has
lately "cut' three new teeth.
The London Standard says ga conversion to Protesant
ism that asonshes much than the conversion Of the
Duke Of Norfolk be announced in the conversion Of
DR.. Pusey."
Professor Simpson recently offered through the President
the Medco Chiurgcal Society," Gl00 to carvoyant
who could read line Of Shakespeare which he would wrie
slip of paper snd enclose in box. The challenge has
not yet been accepted.
Mr. Hay, chemical assistant at Portsmouth dock yard, has
exhibited model a galvanc motive power which,
is supposed will upersele the steam power used an
auxiliary for propeog line Of battle ships and gates The
machine engine makes about foryfve revolutions per
minute, water being the principal element used.
An extraordinary instance Of activity displayed lately
in the manufaciory Of Nine. Veuve Pbilppart Moulin
Tourna sheep sheared and the wool vast ed card
ed spun, Dyed and manufactured into stockings socks
tens &C. between FIVE o'clock in the morning and hspsst
two in the afternoon, at which hour the articles packed
up and forwarded TO the commission the provincial exhb
ton at Mons.