The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-13

! The ecclesiastical titlsnan WI bill passed
through CON nittes - Of Lords on
the evening Of Fri IN 25--Lord Mont
eagles motionlto exclU40 Ireland from its opera
ton, with several other amendments having been
| lost.
On the same evening ia the House of Com
mons motion that the electors OF Greenwich
(the constituents of Mr.. Salomons) be heard by
counsel, was after a stormy debate negatived by
vote Of 1855 against TO-
The adjourned debate on Lord John KusselPs
motion OF Tuesday last, declaring Mr. Alderman
Salom0ns incompetent to sit until he took the
oath OF nbjuration ia the form prescribed by law
was resumed, and after some discussion the
House divided, when there appeared for the reso-
luton, 1913 against il, 68; majority in favor OF
the resolution, IS.
A select committee Of the House of Com
mons have reported against continuing the penny
stamp upon newspapers, unless it DO necessary
to do 80 for the sake Of revenue. They think il
undesirable to tax news
The Belfast Wing says that two hundred pau
pers have emigrated from the Scarif' Union, by
Galway TO New York.
Mr.. Richard Swift, a Roman Catholic, has
been elected sheriff of London.
According to return to Parliament Just
printed there are in England and Wales 304, O64
free sittings established in the several churches
built under the church building acts.
Among the deaths we notice that Of General
Sir Roger Sheaffe, Bart, after seventy three
years service in the army His name we need
not say, is connected with Canadian history.
CANADA.--Offers having been made to the
authorities to purchase her Majesty's two steam
ers, Cherokee, 1862 tons, and 200 horse power,
and Minos, 400 tons, and 80 horse power, now
out of commission on the lakes of Canada, the
Admiralty have ordered them to be sold, the
Cherokee for $4,000 and the Minos for FL 200
SIR JOHN FRANKLIa's CREw.-Of a letter
which has appeared in some of the Scotch news
papers, and has been copied in some Of the jour
nails here, alleging that party from the Eng
lish whaler, Flora, while in Lancaster Sound,
had gone ashore, and under the guidance of
Esqumaux, had found the frozen bodies of four
Of Sir John Franklin's crew, the London and
provincial papers say that it is only cruel hoax
The reasons given for this decision are that the
person to whom the letter was addressed can
not be found, and that no such vessel as the
Flora is known.
The GREAT ExHIBITIoN.-The total admis-
sons on Saturday, July 26, amounted to 10, 1899,
very limited number compared with previous
returns; this may be accounted for by the fact
that very many Of the FIVE shilling visitors"
have left town for the country. The receipts
on Saturday were Gl,47S Is.
In addition to the abundant supply of water
offered to the visitors, a Mr. Perkins, the inventor
OF the hot.water oven, on Saturday presented
them with huge loaf, weighing 38lbs., baked
by his patented process. A knife lies temptingly
beside it, and several experiments were made dur
ing the day upon its quality. For the benefit of
the visitors, we may state that the loaf ii any of
it be left will be found in the American depart
ment, north of the nave
On the 28th ut, E3l94 l3s. was taken at
the doors, and 67,l70 persons entered the build
ing.
The eclipse Of the sun which took place July
28th, seems to have inspired the executive COM
mittee with formidable apprehensions of the
diminution of light, which was likely to take
place in consequence.
From an impression that The $1,000 visitors
who focked there, would have to grope their
way through darkness hardly visible, they had
all the gas-lamps in the interior put in requisition
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
General Husson has replied, in the columns of
the Constitutional, to the attack made by M.
Baze and others upon the petitioners for the re-
vision of the constitution. The correspondent
Of the Globe says, that in this letter it is for the
first time distinctly ntimsted that if the revision
be not granted, the Bonapartists will not, if
public opinion be in their favor, allow the right
of the people to re-elect Louis Napoleon, to be
disputed with impunity by the National Assem-
bly,.
1t appears by letters from Thionville, that the
hurricane which caused such destruction in the
departments of the Indre, the Nievre, and the
Cher, has extended its ravages to the Mossele
and the Aube. Entire fields of wheat have
been laid waste, trees have been torn up by the
roots, houses stripped of their roofs, and men,
women and children swept away by the torrents
At Chatillon-sur-Seine 80 of the finest trees in
the park of the palace have been laid PROSTATE
TRIAL OF Mons CABET.-The name of CADET
has been prominent in the French journals for
some time past in connection with the Icarian
communist colony in America For certain al
legged frauds he was two years ago sentenced to
two years Imprisonment by the correctional
police He appealed from their decision, and is
now on his trial in appeal According to the
indictment, it seems that, in the year IS47, M.
CADET announced that he had obtained conces-
sion of about one million of acres ia Texas, and
invited the adherents to his doctrines to take the
engagement to 90 to Icaria, and put all they
possessed in common.
certain number of persons went TO Texas
but, instead of meeting with the promised land
they expected, they encountered only hardship
and misery. In $40, letter, written by twenty.
two of his disappointed lcarians, was published
in the journals, complaining that they had been
fraudulently enticed into disastrous specula-
ton. Shortly after, one of them, named Rousset
laid complaint against NJ CADET, and he was
joined in the complaint by other Icarians. They
stated, amongst other things, that CADET obtained
from the associates 270,000fr, and that before
leaving he made them give up everything of value
they had with them. Some other Icarians, how
ever, protested against the accusations made
against their chief
The account books showed that CADET had had
at his disposal 24l ,975fr. of which disburse-
ments to the amount of 140 O00f were proved
by receipts; there were no receipts for the dis
brrsement of the remainder, but it was re-
marked that great number of the items were
of such nature that receipts could not be OBJ
tained for them; thus, for example, there was
one item of 24,000f for conveyances by railway
When examined by the president of the court