Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-06-14
FOREIGN ITEMS.

FROM THE NEW York EVENING POST
gun stolen, in mysterious manner, from the
London Exhibition one day. The the has caused little
CONSERVATION amongst the officials.
Mr.. c. For, the builder of the Crystal Palace and Mr.
Paxton, the designer to be entertained public dinner
at Derby.
cargo Of ice the FIRST ever imported 10 Limerick arrived
in the Shannon lately from Sweden.
Cardinal Wiseman has forbidden Father Ignatius hold
public discussion the relative merits of the Protestant and
Roman Catholic religions, at Exeter-ha with Dr. Cumming
This Is wise, good comes Of such controversies.
The American basqus Mary AMMAN on her last trip to
Belfast picked up dog which swimming in the middle
of the Atlantic.
gentleman at Dundee, who has tried the penduIsm en-
pertinent that not show the rotation of the EARTH
but that tends to the magnetic meridian. He stae aso
that scientific friend has come to similar conclusion
The richest Of the Rohschds stated to be Baron Ansem
said be worth millions sterling The aggregate capital
employed by the Rohsehds in their European is
computed at twenty-five millions sterling
Orders for $4,000 muskets have been received al Lege
from the Emperor of Russia.
One Of the principal coachmake5s Of Paris has received
order from the Egyptian Government build fifty diligence
omnbuses for the Of passengers the desert
The Roscomon JousaaI that in day the enor-
number Of 563 paupes applied fos admission
Of the union warehouses in that county.
series Of experiments have been ecsnly made by order
Of the French Government ASCERTAIN the applicability Of
peat fuel for locomotives, aud is said that they have fully
established its economy and singular producing steam
One Of the principal prizes 10, Greek examina-
ton of the University Of Edinburgh, carried off by blind
student, native Of Dunksld He had used in his studies
from the books he examined ia, printed in raised
characters, which he traced with his fingers.
The King of Denmark has just issued decree of amnesty
to all Schleswge which, however, totally excludes about
thythree persons Among the excluded the Duke Of
Aususenburg candidate for the Danish succession and his
VII Dayfa
The great Exhibition has killed every thing else The
Court, the Houses Of Parliament the nobility the gentry
the commonay, the amy the police carriages cabs and
the omnibuse all dancing attendance upon it The shops
unfrequented. ThePaces Of public
paravey deserted. Even the railways lose their
curionss Hampton Court and Greenwich exhibit in vain
their horse chestnus 10 bloom and their white bait
Even the Great Derby day did large fraction
Of million it has usually done. The tall plant in Hyde
park has smothered every thing in its neighborhood
Mrs. Gore Langton, lately deceased in London, has left
her maid the interest for life Of 100000
The Duke Of Portland has made return Of IS per cent to
his numerous enantry in Northumberland.
The total of coal the British islands amount
to 900 square miles, being about ll0h Of the entire
Of the country, their annual production being 49,
tons.
Penny Reading Rooms" have been opened 10 Cheapde.
They present supply Of newspapers including the London
daily journals, the leading Partisan and German well as
the English, Scotch and Irish provincial newspapers This
extensive selection the viser entitled to pursue on payment
of the very riHing charge Of one penny.
The burning waste Of Clackmanna, extensive coal field
which has been fire for thirty years. has been lately extin
gushed by of carbonic acid gas, with which the pits
were filled.
Philpss FIRE aunhator said to be perfect extingusher
of fires which little and accompshes its object the
instant
THEIRS the French statesmen is said be about making
another turn and coming out as Socialist
ghu catastrophe occurred in the garden Of the Duke
Of Montpenser, at Alcala del Rio, the 10th May The
prince had caused steam-engine be placed in for its M
gaiion and that day fixed for its trial Either from
neglect mprudence the part Of the engineer the boiler
exploded, and overthrow the building buying under its
60 70 persons assisting the experiment operatives
mere spectators, many of whom were killed.
Medical diplomas have been granted eight native medical
students who acquired their knowledge at the Grant Medical
College in Bombay. The is chiefly noticeable
its being the first of the kind. The young men belong
the Hndoo, Portuguese and Pasee races and their ac
quiremen very highly Landed by Government examiners
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