The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-22

The population Of Rome hss been steadily decress-
ing since lei6, when II amounted to $4,000 souls.
taken place in the rest Of the Romsn States.
The G,of'als d Roma publishes y decree Of the
Sacred Congregation Of the Index at Rome, pro-
hibiting several books . Amongst them we hnd tho
OF Chronological Dictionary, by dHarronville.
1874; the Elements Of Logic, by the Rev Richard
Whn,ely; Pilgrimage to Rome, by the Rev.
HGs YIN .1d E 8
their National Kings, by Henry. The latter author
has Acknowledged his errors, and made due submis-
sion to the Congregation.
The heirs of Louis Philippe are about to offer for
sale the gallery Of modern pictures in the Palais
Royal.
The President has received from the Duke d
Mecklenburg- Strelitx tho notification Of the mar
riage Of his son, tho Duke George, with tho Grand
Duchess Catherine Michailowna, of Russia.
Mr. Robert Stephenson, it is said, at the request
OF Abbas Pasha, is about to commence the con-
struction Of railroad between Cairo and Aloxan-
dria, and thus bring into close proximity the two
principal cities of Egypt.
The French papers record that an ex-professor
has been fined for te aching the tenantry Of his es-
tates without an authorization.
Letters from Stockholm, Of the 22d ult., state
that pleasure excursion Of six hundred persons,
from that city to London, had been organized.
William 3 oBrien, yielding, he says to ad-
from England, Ireland, America, and Hobart Town,
has at last consented to accept ticket of leave for
six months, and intimates Norfolk Town as his pro-
babe spot OF residence.
M. Eugene Sue has been elected by the French
National Assembly president Of the second COM
mmittee, by Is votes against IL for the Due do
Broglie.
A party of British officers have been attacked at
Aden by Arabs whilst asleep in their beds, and one
OF them, Capt Milne, murdered Lieut.. M'Pher-
son was wounded, but is now doing we'll
The Jesuts have obtained the restitution of the
Borromean College, at Rome. The Minister Of
Commerce, who inhabited It, has been obliged TO
leave it in less than decent haste, and retired to tho
custom-house buildings.
The number of marriages this year at Paris
amongst the working class is said to be larger than
capital, the boards on which the publication Of
bans are placarded are constantly covered
The Spanish Minister, Bravo Murlo, gives clea-
intm atoms ofhis intention to repudiate the national
debt lie asks his creditors to renounce one half
of their claims, when he will see what can be done
for the remaining moiety.
The King of Sweden has reached Stockholm, on
his return from Norway, and Immediately dissolve
the Regency appointedto govern in his absence.
The disturbances in Norway are said to be at an
end.
An unfortunate patriot has been arrested in Rome
with some tickets of the Mazzin loan in his posses
sion. Death Imprisonment for life will be the
unavoidable consequence. The MaZzinans in Rome,
however, nothing daunted, nave issued caution TO
the public in print, giving the numbers and letters
of the tickets thus seized, and warning the public
against them.
The Council Of State lately appointed by the
Pope, met for the first time on the 18th. Prince
Odescalchi has been elected president or the Pont-
fetal Academy Of Science.
The Archbshops and Bishops Of Tuscany have
sent an address to the Grand Duke Of Tuscany to
tmind him of his promises and sacred obligations
of 1913, and to recommend the adoption of liberal
measures.
The State prisoners, Poerio, Pironti, &C., con-
demned to the galeys for life at Naples, have been
removed from Nisida where their presence in the
bagno had created an indescribabe sensation among
the most abandoned convicts, who showed them
every token Of reverence, and expressed. the most
violent Indignation that such men should pc doomed
to their fate, and sent to the island of Ischia
there to be thrown in a dark subterranean dungeon
of the castle called II Fosso, the ditch-a dark hole
where no human beings have been shut up since the
The Irish Tenant League has received another
and more signal repulse than it met in Limberck,
by the disastrous defeat ut Dungarven of Of it's
abest champions Mr. j. 1. Maguire), and the re-
turn Of the wing candidate (Mr. Ponsonby), bya
majority of % in q constituency which counts little
over 300 voters.
M. de Nieuwerkerke is at present executing tho
model of the statue of Napoleon, destined for the
city Of Lyons. 1t represents the Emperor with his
hand on his heart, pronouncing the phrase, since
become historical, Of "Lyonese, | love your' In
1914, on arriving at Lyons from Grenoble, the En-
peror was surrounded by such n compact and en-
thusiastic crowd that he delivered no speech, and
could only utter the celebrated exclamation mem
toned above.
Austria is binding Italy with net Of her own
railways. A line is to run from Venice to Leghorn.
crossing Lombardy, the Duchies of Parma and Mo-
dena, the Legations and Tuscany. All the COM
mercisl interests of those countries will be sacri-
feed to the military cxgencies of the ruling power.
Woe to the conquered.