The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-07-14
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Foreign Items.
n ToBAcco.--Those who first thought Of
putting tobacco dust under their noses we're
laughed at, and then perseculesl more Dfless.
James /, Of England wrote against snuff.
takers . book entitled .Miso. .capnos. r.
Some years later, Pope Urban VIII excoTn-
municated bli persons who took snuff in
churches. The Empress Elizaoe n thought
il necessary TO add something 10 the penal
W OF accommodation pronounced against
those who used the black dust during divine
service, and authorized the 'beadles to con-
fiscate the snuff. boxes to their own use.-
Amurath Nv forbade the use Of snuff, under,
pain Of having the nose cut OFF, Fyassr's
Magazine.
The banking chivalfy or Europe has lately
received an addition la The person Of B3ron
lanes ae Roihschild 0f RafIs. whom HE
( Ring f 28iiIi1if IEae ndm.d q Kiiieht 0f The
Order 6f STINT Maurice and Saint Llzare.
llofthe London papers are talking abou.
Asa Whitney and his Pacific Railway pro-
Iject, and nearly all Of them, fasordbly. a.
An aged Quakeress, The other Afternoon,
| says London p4per, was seen intently ga
tzing upona piece Of brocaded silk, display
ed in linendrapefs shop ia Fleet street.
A passer-by observed, that It was Satin
tempting Eve. %
New PADDLE-wHEEL STEAMER mi. .. L.
Stevens has in the Exhibition the model Of a
lpaddle-wheel steamer, the properties of
which, he contends, are such that vessel
of large proportions woull make the run
across the Atlantic in two or three days less
than the time now occupied United Ser
vicc Journal.
i ANOTHER Division OF MExlco.--A letter
from Vera Cruz says that widespread rev.
olution is close at hand. 1t has some con-
nection, perhaps, with the annexation move
4 ments in California. The people and the
administration Of Sonora are said to be ia
1.-THE plot as they have received no shares of
the American indemnity. II is contempla-
lied to declare the State independent OF Mex
leo, organize a provisional government and
finally get it annexed 10 the Uniled States.
i Poland has lost writer-of distinction
chiefly on geographical subi.cls--in the per-
son Of Count Stanisaus Plaer.
Six years ago says the London Athenaum,
!, there were but four steamships plying be-
tween the Old World and the New. With
in the last year, Liverpool, Halifax and N.
York have been brought into weekly COM
; munlcation in summer-fortnighliy ia win
:. ter. But this arrangeme nj no longer meets
5 the overgrowing wants Of the two countries.
: This month, it has been determined by the
= British and North Am 'rican Royal Mail
Steamship Company to run their vessels ev.
cry week throughout the year. More per.
e sons already pass between England and
e America than between England and the con-
: ftinent; butthee is this difference, that the
e great majority pass over the wide Atlantic
e never to return to the old country. Gould
e the cost of transit be lowered, there would
S be vast deal more tripping and touring Of
middle-class Englishmen in the U. States
> with q probability of much good resulting
: from it to both countries. The amount oi
3 communication is increasing SO rapidly
: thatin ten. years from this time we shall
f probably have our daily departures and ar
E rivals at Galway, from the continent, as we
t have now at Folkestone, Dover and Rams
: gate, to and from each other a
Some gentlemen whose literary suscepti
bility has been wounded by Tbackeray's de.
nouncement OF the odious qualities in Swift
has written the lecturer letter threatening
, to insult him publicly and interrupt his lee
/, ture, unless he should openly reiract from
: the rostrum, those foul aspersions on Swift
memory. He must be an lrisbman!
!. Quite sensation has been created in ih,
S English circles at Florence, by the wicked
sketches which Lever introduces ia bis seri
al romance The Daltons, wherein all the no
: liabilities OF the place are taken off.
!, Viscount Melville died Of bronchitis, OF
! 10th instant, at Melville castle, 10 the sod
year of bis age, He had bern President oI
the Board Of Trade, First Lord Of the Admi-
! ralty and Chancellor Of the University Of St
Andrews. se