The republic., 1851-08-13
Denmark,

Two Englishmen, Messrs. Sheppard and Bottom,
have received a charter for the construction OF a
submarine telegraph between the Danish Islands
and the Duchy OF Schleswig.
The Senate of Hamburg has placed severe and
almost prohbitve restrictions on the transport OF
emigrants by the agents of British ship-owners
The Senate has also requested the Prusslan gov
ernment to adopt similar restrictive and hostile
measures, and il is stated that the city OF Bremen
proposes to follow up the example set by the city
Of Hamburg.
II appears by the following article, which VIC ex-
tract from the Courier d. Athenes, that the bril-
gandage in Greece, which has been 30 frequently
spoken of, remains almost unchecked.
A band of brigands recently stopped the mail on
the road from Sparta TO Tripotza, and took from
the bags all letters which enclosed any bank notes
Two of the robbers had their faces blackened, and
the whole OF them were very well dressed and
armed with costly weapons. Eighty travellers
have been stopped and robbed on the same road
On the Sd, Calamata, accompanied by fifty two
brigands, attacked the village OF Cheimernaki, in
the commune Of YPate, and killed one of the in
habitants who. had last year denounced him to the
authorities.
"on the following day he went to the.village of
Kampia, and, after robbing all the inhabitants set
fire to and destroyed IL. He told the villagers that
he had procured list of all traitors and of all
those who prosecuted the brgands, that he might
chastse them at his leisure. In order TO inspire his
victims with greater alarm, he told tlIem at the
village of Kyriacochori, you will find Captain Pro-
topapas; and at Selma, Colonel Pharmakis is quar-
tered; go and ask them to assist you' Sixty bri-
gands attacked the village of Goustariza and rob-
bed all the inhabitants and the village Of Merali
has met with a similar fate.
Turkey.
telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, of
the 18th of July, in The KoIn1 Zeit,iHg, announces
another confiagration in that city, by which less
than one hundred and forty four houses re-
duced TO ashes.
Egypt.
The Viceroy has made final arrangements for
the construction of railway between Cairo and
Alexandria, and has signed an agreement for that
purpose with Mr.. Borthwick, who is there on the
part of MIR. Robert Stephenson
Ii is calculated that the line will be completed in
about two years and half. The whole length
will be about one hundred and thirty miles, and it
will cross The Nile at the barrage, where a sub
stantial bridge is already nearly finished, having
been made by French engineers with the object Of
damming the Nile for the better irrigation of the
land.
The differences existing between the Sultan and
the Viceroy of Egypt have been nearly settled by
the latter agreeing to introduce certain constitu-
tional reforms proposed by the Sublime Porte
From the East.
The overland mail brings advices from Bombay
to June 25, and Calcutta June ID. The rainy sea-
son proceeding tavorably, A movement has
taken place at Calcutta with view of placing
British and American vessels trading with that
port on more equal footing than they at present
occupy.
The following account of hail storm, taken
from the Bombay Times, throws our Western hail
storm stories in the shade:
Son May 22d an extraordinary fall of ice oc-
Cured near Bangalore, during storm of thunder,
lightning, and rain. The hail stones which at first
made their appearance were about the size of lines
and oranges, and broke through the tiles and roofs
of houses, and destroyed gardens and fruit trees.
Some OF the hail stones found next morning were
as large as goose eggs, some as big as pumpkins
one block, found in dry WE'LL measured four feet
and half in length, three in breadth, and and
a half in thickness. II was probably the result of
the cementaton of several ofthe smaller pieces in
TO one lump, although the fall Of pieces OF ice of
this size is not unfrequent in India.
''In the reign of Tppoo Sultan piece was found
the size of an elephant which took several days to
melt; in 1926 piece of similar size fell in Can.
deish; in 1888 block of ice, apparently mass Of
cemented hail stones, was found near Dharwar,
measuring twenty feet in circumference
Colonel Ogilvie, Judge Advocate General, died
at Poonah on the 18th of June, Of paralysis, sue
ceeded by gangrene. He was sixty four years
old, and had been forty five years in India.