The republic., 1851-08-11
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a volume Of literary memoirs.
The monument TO the Right Hon. Charles Butler
has been placed in Westminster Abbey
Her majesty has conferred pension oil 1lOO
per annutn on Mrs. Jameson, the eminent it'a-
ietT.
Ii Is reported as extremely probable that Messrs
j. Starkey x Co., Of Liverpool, Will, II allowed
,time, pay 20s. in the pound
Letters from Altoona Of the 4th ultimo record the
discovery of comet in the constellation Pisces; IL
rapidly nearing the sun.
Mr.. Layard. il is said, will be obliged To return
to England from Babylon, from the expenditure OF
all the funds placed at his disposal
Sand Of one hundred and seventy email and large
whales the sale OF which realized about &ll los
per ton.
splendid silver elk branch candelabra has been
presented by naval officers to MIR 0'Byrne, author
of "a Naval Biographical Dictionary"
A hand grenade has been invented, which
is very destructive at close quarters II explodes
striking any object at which II is thrown.
A large monastery, two hundred feet in length,
and 10 cost E22 900, TO be erected Edgbaston,
near Birmingham. There will be church also.
II is stated in the Harrogate Herald that several
young ladies there have appeared recently IN the
Boomer costume, the style which they nave ADOPT
ed being the Turkish.
By the death Of Admiral Talbot, Captain Sir
John Ross G. b., C6l5) the distinguished Polar
voyager, now abroad in search OF Sir John Frank
lin, succeeds TO Admiral Austen's flag the ac-
tive list.
The twenty.eight Spanish dancers who have
created such sensation at the grand opera, Paris
and at her majesty theatre, London, Will appear
next week at the Theatre Royal, Manchester.
Last week, at Leeds, an Irishman, named Owen
Madden, taken from his bed on his wedding
night, and lodged in Bridewell, on charge OF
robbery committed more than two years ago
The loss sustained at Drury lane Theatre In
the two seasons, namely, l649-'5O and ls5O-'5l,
amounted, as has been ascertained by the failure
of the lessee MIR. Anderson, TO no less sum than
E9,l6l 30. Id.
The Rev. DIR. Bunting has resigned the Office of
senior secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Com
inittee, which ne has held since the death of Mr.
Watson. Increasing years and IN hrmltles are the
cause of his taking the step.
On Saturday return to Parliament was printed,
from which II appears that between April, iS4o,
and May, 1850, there were eight vessels specially
purchased for the Arctic Searching Expedition,
amounting to fl06,47l 9s. l0d
Rear Admiral William Willmott Henderson, G.
b., a Trafalgar officer and who has served atioat
about twenty -four years, has been appointed to
succeed Rear Admrals Reynolds, G. b., as COM
mander chief of the outheast coast OF America
station
Some newly mown hay, in field adjoining the
Glasgow and Southwestern railway, at Kirkmahoe
Dumfriesshre, was lately fired by hot cndcr
from passing train, and before the flames could
be extinguiehed considerable quantity of it was
burnt.
new steam frigate, called the Isabel H., has
been built in London, by Messrs. Charles Moore &
Co., for the Spanish government. She lie 500 horse
power measures one thousand SIX hundred ton5
and carries two long sixty eight FOUNDERS, fore and
aft, and seven of the came calibre, but shorter,
each side.
A plague has broken out among the cattle in Mo-
ravia, causirg & frightiul losses to proprietors.
Letters from Vienna state that accounts of the
spread Of cholera had been received from the va
rous parts of Bohemia Moravia, and Galicia.
Madame Ledru Rollin was defeated in the Paris
court of appeal lately in suit against her husband
for imprude mt inanag agement OF her fortune.
Ii-hc indirect taxes of Belgium produced, for the
fCa year ending the 30th ut., IS, ,066 ,945f. In
moutrst half of the year the amount was 81 1921
dianuring recent assize III France 1T was disco
theed that many fires had been prompted by agents
of insurance societies, in order to terrify the farm
ers into insuring.
The Austrian government gave notice that, dur
ing the total eclipse of the sum- dancing nor
eeInblies of large numbers of persons would be al
lowed to take place.
1'he French papers record the death, at Aire, in
the p >s de Calais, OF a man who was an enormous
beer. DIR suker and tobacco smoker, and yet who
reached tSe age of ninety years.
The railw'ays Of Holland and Germany are about
to be put in communication; the Prussian gov
ernment has jest given Its consent for the con
struction of line TO Arnheim, on the Dutch from
tier.
Bya recent decision Of the project of police, the
drivers of hackney coaches and cabrloets who take
persons TO the railway stations of Paris are author
ICED to demand payment OF their fare before
hand.
Lately, the body of a workman named Vallet
whose grandfather father, mother, and sister, all
destrOyed themselves, was IOunu In the Selne near
the Port st. Nicholas, he having committed suicide
Piedmont journals state that, on the l7th OF Au-
gust next all the old soldiers of Napoleon now in.
habiing the province of Conf intend to hold ban
quet Upwards Of eighty have already inscribed
their names.
The Paris journals announce that the first rail-
way in Sweden has just been completed; it extends
from the Lake of Langbar to that of Yngen, in the
district OF Filipstad and is about seventy five miles
in length.
AT Poscn, a Polish schooboy, seventeen years Of
age, who lately shot another Toy of thirteen Ill a
duel, has been condemned TO eighteen months inn
prisonment. Three other boys, between thirteen
and fifteen, who had acted as seconds and umpire,
wer acquitted
The first execution Of capital punishment in
Prussia has just taken place, in conformity with
the prescriptions OF the new penal code which ex-
cludes publicity. The eentencc was carried out in
the prison court in presence of persons deputed to
witness the act.
On Tuesday the 22d ult, the receipts at the doors
of the London Exhibition amounted to E3 ,236 2s.,
and the number of visitors by the police returns
6S,l6l. Previously, the London Times says,
Tuesday had been the great day Of the week, but
it was not on this occasion.
Loss OF THE FISHING SCHOONER "FLoRENcE. -
Gabi oh of Wal a.,