New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-03
FOREIGN ITEMS.

1t is reported at Copenhagen that the King Of
Denmark has resolved to separate from Madame
RAsmussen the mistress whom he lately married
and ennobled. The motives which may have led
to this resolution are but vaguely understood
Madame Rasmussen will make the third legitl-
mate wife from whom the King will have sepa-
rated within few years The first was daughter
of the late King bis uncle, Frederick VI; the
second a Mecklenburg princess the third, as
every one knows, was one OF the ballet corps at
the Copenhagen opera. As the price OF this
matrimonial rupture. the Countess Rasmussen is
to receive an annuity of $4,000 beside apanages.
The sect Of Germsn Catholics founded by
John Ronge is now making great progress in
Germany.
The New York Code is cow exciting great
attention in England. The Society for the Amend
ment of the Law at London has resolved to
institute inquiries as to its practical working.
series Of questions has been prepared for circu-
lation among the lawyers and merchants OF this
State. and vii! be transmitted here through Hon.
Abbot Lawrence, our Minister at London.
-Lumley has engaged Nine. Bsrbiere-Nini,
the first soprano Of Italy to appear at Paris
troupe Of the Sale Ventadour.
The heirs of Donizetti and the author of the
libretto Of La File du Regiment have forbidden
its performance at the Italian Opera Of Paris, I'M
iii they shall be secured a compensation therefor.
This opera it will be recollected, was originally
brought out in French.
The Partisan Critics are delighted with Son.
tags performance Of Rosina in the Barber OF
Seville. Ferranti, young BARITONE, IS also ap-
pauded in Figaro, while the Don Bartola OF La
blacbe is perfect Of course.
M. de Montaembert and his friends are en-
deavor.ng to procure the passage Of a law through
the French Assembly, to prohibit the desecration
Of Sunday, to which they attribute the demorali-
cation of the French working classes. Their bill
will not pass 1t is opposed by all parties except
the extreme Catholics.
The Grensboten an excellent weekly paper,
published at Leipzig requests the editors daily
papers not to copy from it, as by means Of their
more rapid circulation they often carry its arti-
Giles to its readers long before the latter have re-
eeved their copies of the G,enEJOten. In Ger
many the daily papers are circulated through the
Post Office the weekes by the booksellers.
Alexander Won Humboldt, the great natural
list and traveller, has written a letter to the Der
lin Society for Emigration and Colonization, ex'
pressing the warmest sympathy with the pur
poses of the Society and promising to use his in
huence with the King in its behalf. The attention
of the Society is specially directed toward Gen.
tral America.
The unfortunate holders ofbank notes in Aus
tria-and the whole population belong to that
category-have been attempting to make them
selves good in the utter absence of the precious
metals, by investing their money in copper. This
made that metal scarce and raised its price some
$50 per cwt. whereupon the ministry forbade the
sale of copper to any person who could not show
that he needed it for actual use.
There are in Prussia 81 Railroads, about 100
miles in all, costing about slOl, 100000, using i6s
locomotives, 1884 passenger cars and 6,Ols freight
cars In Is49 they carried S,597 ,945 passengers
and 33,3l3,7s5 cwt. freight. The receipts were
s., s63, 900, and the expenses little more than
half that sum. The profits were 80 per cent.
The birth day of Winckelmann, the eminent
writer on ancient art, was duly celebrated at
Boun on the 9th ult by the Society of Friends of
Antiquity. The President of the Society, Prof.
Braun delivered on the occasion an "Explana-
ton OF an antique (oarly Christri~"l "aroOPhasus
found in Treves."
An animated debate is now going in the
Swiss Federal Legislature on the question OF
continuing to allow Switzers TO be enlisted for the
service Of the King Of Naples. The probabilities
are that the enlistments will be allowed.
.ArOur American fashion ofresdings of Shakspere
has got into Germany. Holtee, the poet has been
E J;,o
with Coriolanus, which was received with great
applause One evening he read the Comedy of
Errors, which being very short, the time was
filled up with selections from German poets.
"A monument to Rossi, the assassinated Min
lister, is to be erected at Rome, in the Church OF
St. Lawrence. The sculptor Tenerani is to exc
cute it.
The reform in Turkish coin, determined upon
by the Porte several years ago, has shared the
fate Of most other reforms in the country. 1t was
commenced, bat not completed. The newly
coined gold and silver pieces have almost entirely
disappeared from circulation. All the old pieces
are still in use, spite of repeated prohibitions
Large sums of the old, clipped Old-pieces crcu-
late in q regular round, from the Bazaar TO the
counters Of the Frank merchants, thence to the
money changers aAd from these back again to the
Bazaar The Porte, in order TO break this current
and direct the stream into the Mint, in order to
replace it with better coinage, has just issued
severe law, compelling every one convicted of
passing such money, to go to the Mint and change
It according to the Government tariff. Onefourth
Of the sum is forfeited and goes TO the iniormer.
Paine's Light.
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