The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-11-27

q Lisbon, and M. Msgslhasn., the Mniste. Of ths
short sojourn in that capital.
The Great Western, ct Southampton, (Eng.,)
from Chagres, had slSe, S0S in California gold
Extraordinary anxiety was felt ct Florence on
the Slst ult,, owing to the sminou: aspect OF the
Arno, which threatened an inuadstion, not unlike
that Of 1914. Fortunately the waters subsidized .
little towards evening. The Ombrone, the Sieve,
the Bisenzio and other continents of the Arno, have
ovsrHoved their banks, and laid the adjoining dis
tricts under water
the entrance Of the Persian troops into Herat,
where they had been received by the inhabitants
In most friendly way
Shocks Of earthquake were felt, on the 18th and
18th ult., in several parts Of Sicily.
Dr. Stenhell, director-general of the electric TO-
legraphs in the Austrian States has discovered the
means Of causing the electric fluid to act ct any dis
lance Heretofore it has not been possible to trans
NIT signals for more than 800 miles DIR. Steinhell
has not yet stated the secret Of his apparatus which
he calls the translator" 1t is combined with the
ordinary telegraph. The experiments made with
it have perfectly succeeded A dispatch sent from
Semlin by way Of Hermanstadt, Lemberg, Order
berg, Vienna, and Trieste to Milan arrived rs ra-
pidly as one sent from Vienna to the palace of
Schenbrunn, very short distance. One sdvan-
tage Of DR. Steinhelps system is to prevent delay
at any station by the multiplicity Of dispatches, as
instead of sending them by the direct lines, they
may be forwarded as rapidly and sifely by any
others, even by those which 60 the most rounda-
bout way.
The Martinique papers (says the 81 Lucia Pal
ladium) are chiefly occupied with reports OF the
municipal elections throughout the several COM
munes. These elections having terminated, the
Courier says
Throughout the colony success has crowned the ef-
forts Of the party Of order Bssettists) most imposing
majority being obtained by their candidates
Case Pote Marin and vsuclin, which, infested still BY
the spirit Of demagogy, afford hope Of snocess
AT Guadaloure there had occurred repeated
shocks of earthquake daring the last month. Tho
trial of Leonard SENEGAL and Bigue, which COM
menced on the 18th of September, had terminated.
having excited civil war and having been an accom-
plice in incendarsm, and Bigue to seven years i'm
prsonmeDt.
Field Marshal Haynau has found it i'm possible to
keep the property purchased in Hungary with the
sum of money presented to him by the Emperor.
His desire to part with it Is to arise from
the absence Of labor and the difficulty of procuring
it from Other parts of the country 1t may be true
that the laborers have refused to work for their
new neighbor; they have, however, done more.
Haynau has failed to get in single crop of any
kind. Every thing has been destroyed by the
eeasantry, the crops above and in the ground have
been wasted by fire or other means, the buildings
burnt down, and every method Of agrarian out
rage adopted in order to make the place too hot to
hold him: They lave succeeded.
Prince Windischgratz has at last issued the long
paign in 1889. In the preface the author says
that he has been induced to depart from his resou
tioH not to publish the book until much later Pc
riod by the numerous calumnies and misrepresenta-
tions which have been circulated 1t is dedicated to
the army.