The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-09
Foreign News by the Canada.

Higate st. Lawrence arrived off Cowes at two
oclock, on HE 18th ult, in twenty-five days from
New York. She anchored in Cowes Roads, and
was expected to proceed up to southampton, when
she would exchange salutes with the town, and
Immediately commence discharging the articles to
De transmitted to London. 1t Is stated that her
cargo is much larger than was at first expected,
embracing from one TO two thousand packages, be.
longing 10 five hundred exhibitors in all, and ma
king total of nearly a thousand tons of general
products of industry.
Two Chinese merchants, Ahung and Ry, have
arrived at Berlin their way to England. to visit
the Exhibition. They preferred the overland jour
ney through Russia to the sea voyage, which some
of their associates are making in junk.
A writer in Frazer's Magazine suggests that to
accommodate the immense crowd at the London
Fair with :" lodgings" who are barred out from
| leather beds in snug inns, that the river Thames
snail he covered with RATS, which lodging
rooms or stalls shall be constructed and let out at
cheap rate.
Such is the quantity of glass used in the build.
| ing for the Exhibition, that if the duty had moi
been remitted, it would have amouued to .E40 600
The safe of tickets goes aseadilp, though tia
number yet sold falls very far short of The estimated
SALE Up 10 Wednesday night 12th,) 1858 gentle
mems, and 2063 ladies' tickets--n all, 1889 season
uekets-had been issued from the Offices of the So
| ciety of Arts t..
A Brussels paper announces that the Orleans
family is about TO leave Claremount in order to be
/
tlueen, 1t says, will go to Brussels the Duke o
| Nemours to his father-in-law the Prince de Join
vile either to Scotland or Portugal and the Duke
| Aumae to Naples
The ministerial organs at Vienna assert, in con
tradlction OF statements that have been made, tha
Austria does not mediate Intervention in Pied
mont or Switzerland.
The usual return relative to the number Of per
sons employed on the railways, and the length o
| line opened, has been printed. The total number
OF persons employed all railways in the United
| Kingdom, open and unopen, in the year 1850, wa,
| l59 7S4, viz: 114,013 in England and Wales
ls,494 in Ireland, and 27,277 in Scotland The
| length OF line opened throughout the United King
dom was 5447, that in course of construction 1904
and that neither open nor in course OF construction
| 3l32. The total length of line authorized wa
| ,0s3.
On the 1st of January, 1851, the total efectiv.
| strength OF the rank and file of the British Arm,
amounted to ia, ,45l men, distributed as follows
| In Great Britain 81 161 - namely, cavalry 3947
foot-guards 4563, infantry of the line 81 ,O37
| recruiting 1914; in Ireland 81, l,24l-namely cav
airy 3Ol6 infantry 18 225; in the Colonies 35 O19
namely, infantry 27,2Sl West India Regimen
2907; Local Colonial Corps 4837; in India 27,O3O
namely, cavalry 1887, infantry 23,693, to whicl
add the other ranks, namely, 1861, gives the tota
| number of 30, S91 now serving in India.
/ CoNsTANTINoPLE.-Lette have reached 81
Moses Monefore and the Rev. the Chief Rabbi
| from Constantinope, imploring the ass. stance O
SIR Moses under circumstances similar to tn os
| which occurred at Damascus. In the interior O
| the country, a child having died, the Jews wer
accused OF having killed it for the blood's sake
| about twenty Jews, among whom were severa
| Rabbs, have been imprisoned and horribly treated
Two OF whom, We hear, have already died fron
| the torture.
A correspondent of the London Times says
. The newspaper press of this country as al pre-.
l ent constituted, has a vast power, whether for goo
| or evil we need not now inquire. Let it be ono
asslmilated, either by the removal of taxes or otf
erwlse, TO that Of the United States, and requir,
very little acquaintance with the Two countres
assure us from that moment its power is gone fl
| ever.
The Grand Jury of R0scommon county ha,
| adopted petition TO Parliament. praying that a
/ American packet station might be established O
| The west coast of Ireland. A committee was az
| pointed to forward the design of an America
packet company to adopt Galway as a packe
| station.
1t is rumored that an intention exists on the pal
i of Government of REL uniting the civil government
| of Malta with the military command in the perso
of general officer now in command Of one of tn
districts.
An instance of socitous conjugal affection wa
produced at the Somerset sessions, which has hard
ly, perhaps, been paraeled in the annals of ma,r
| mony. In an appeal cause, woman who wa
there as witness, swore that she had never los
| sight of her husband for twelve hours together 6
any one time, either day or night, during pero
Of fifty years.
A young lady died at Bristol lately, from CON
preston OF the stomach aud viscera BY tight lacn
She was perfectly free from disease, and there VIZ
no Gaher visible cause of death.