Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-05-24
FOREIGN ITEMS.

order of religious fanatics, called the Redemption
s has sprung up in Prussia They resemble the wander
ing preachers Of the sixteenth century, and produce great
excitement among the lower classes Of peasantry.
The annually spent by English absentees resident in
France, is estimated, at very moderate calculation,
0O0 This does not include the expenditure of tour
sts travellers and Engishmen passing through France to
various countries, including Malta India, Egypt, &c.
Cuneo in Piedmont, was, the 18th umo, visited BY
cloud Of butterflies Of various coos. They settled in my
RAIDS on wallis trees &c They are supposed to have been
gathered together by whwnd in Africa and to have been
driven over to Europe by the same agency.
The Mquse De Livy died on the LIST instant at the Cha
teau de Lasson (Cavados) She belonged one Of the
Oldest families in France Her father who was captain in
the service Of Louis XyI gulo,ned and she de-
tanned 10 the prison OF st. Lazare and only avoided similar
fate by making her escape in disguise.
Master Tommy Currin boy of fourteen, residing in Kill
dare, (Ireland,) has eloped With Miss Eliza =, girl
aged hirteen-the servant girl who managed the affair
codante being between fifteen and sixteen years old The
juvenile fugitive took with her ETA belonging her mother,
and the boy and girl have proceeded America together
The Queen intends to give third State Ball in the month
OF June next and, for the encouragement Of trade her Ma
jesty has resolved that shall be Fancy Ball. The cos
tune will be the full dress Of the of King Charles the
Second, from the Restoration in 1860 1885, The choice
OF dress will not be limited to England, but will include the
court costumes Of that period Of other European countries
An old Polish soldier, who died few days since in the
Hospital Of Invades in Paris had reached his l27th year.
Fnnchman who, under the nsme lamar Bey, had ar
rived the highest dgnes in the East has just died at Tr
poll His original name SoUcHoN, and ne was drum
me boy in the army Of Egypt in l79s After the battle Of
Heopos be and others fell into ambuscade In the
DESERT and were made prisoners Dzzar ordered the whole
Of them to be put DEATH but the officer charged to carry
the order into execution being touched with the extreme
youth Of souchoD spared his life and sold him as slave to
the Pacha Of TipoI This latter incorporated hm IN his
oops and soon discovered in him great capacity that by
degrees be raised him to the highest ranks and last made
him governor of Andelah bis dominons His admpis-
aon was marked with great energy and frmness which in
the end led to the establishment of order and prosperity He
died lately at the age Of sxtyeigh, during visit which be
was paying to the Pacha Of Tripol.
Letters from Bombay dated April 81, received on Sunday
by the Overland Mail say "An earthquake has lately oc
Cured in Kawsr During thunderstorm in the same pro-
vince house which large quantity Of powder was stored
in the city Of Ioods struck by lightning the powder ex
podeJ and half the houses in the were eveed with the
ground buying large number Of persons in the ruins"