New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-11
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sent in before July 81, next THE WEES SisteT
is a new novel illustrating the English marriage
laws. D0hO11ey and the DahOnaaas, by Mr.. Forbes,
of the Royal Navy, is well spoken Of He visited
that part of Africa last year and the year before.
His book is illustrated by engravings. FTaHciG'
a tale Of the Revolution of Paraguay, owes its
authorship to E. Clarence Sheppard, Esq.
Socialism has made considerable progress in
Norway, having been propagated there by man
named Thrane. 1t has accordingly had so much
effect on the recent elections to the Legislature
that the Conservative party is alarmed. The
King has just gone there from Sweden in order to
use his influence against these new ideas. Nor
way has one Of the most democratic Constitutions
in the world.
The University at Gottingen now has 7l5 stu
dents-4O4 Hanoverians and 3l2 foreigners. Most
Of the latter are Germans, however.
The poems Of Ban Jellachich are to be pub
lished at Vienna in a style splendid enough to be
sent to the Worlds Fair, as a specimen Of print
ing and binding.
"A critic in the Kdlaische ZeituRg contrasts
Lessings Martyrdom Of Huss with Leutze's
WASHINGTON Crossing the Delacare and says that
the latter produces in the beholder grander,
freer more human state of feeling than the former
Lessings picture he says, is Germanidealistic ;
Leutzes American. naturalistic In respect to
technical perfection, ne does not doubt that the
Washington will hardly be inferior to the Huss.
The viceroy of Egypt has established schools
at Chartoum in Nubia, 100 north latitude, and
has also appropriated $4,000 to improve the
navigation of the Nile.
Immense numbers of last years pilgrims to
Mecca died of cholera on the road.
-Thalberg, the pianist, is at work on an opera
which will be produced at London next summer
Fifty coaches are now making at Paris to
carry passengers across the Isthmus of Suez.
The pupils of the Polytechnic school at vi
emma have hitherto worn their hair long, but were
lately ordered to have it cut off, as long hair was
suspicious politically. AS they did not obey at
once, they were arrested by the police, marched
off in a body and duly cropped.
"A Partisan tailor has lately adopted the plan
of placarding his delinquent customers at hisshoP
door, as for instance "The Count of --, Rue
de Seine No. -, owes for a brown paetot and
blue satin vest, 800 francs" &c The police or
dered the placard to be taken down; it attracted
a crowd in the street.
The Irish Tenant League has received from
individual contributors 4l7s Us from district 80
cieties G767 1873 Cd. This comes good deal short
Of the GlO,COo it proposed to raise at the outset
The Vladika, or prince bishop of Montenegro
lately visited Pope Plus TX accompanied by three
Of his countrymen. AS they were armed to the
teeth with sabres, pistols, and yatagans, it was
observed to them that in order to be received by
his Holiness they must deposit their arms first
when one Of them answered: "a Montenegro
quits his arms only with his life" The Pope, on
being informed of this and being DESTROYS Of see.
ing them in their ordinary costume, allowed them
to be introduced to his presence with their arms
about them.
An English Clergyman advertises 10 The
Times, that being obliged to break up his estab'
lishment, he wishes to recommend his Groom and
Wife. To any person keeping horses and cows
they would be most valuable servants"
The French legitimist journal L Union says,
that Mazzinis revolutionary loan has been most
successful at Genoa, and that Piedmont has given
him 627, OOOf; the Roman States, 500, 722f.i the
two sicilies, 2l431H Lombardy, 5l6,363f; the
other petty States, 994,5llf This may all be
true, bat we should believe it sooner on some other
authority.
The proposed reduction in the window tax
in England will exempt 100, 900 houses that now
pay the tax.
1t is said that balloon has been constructed
at Paris which obeys the helm, and can be driven
even against the wind by its conductor. This
machine has made several voyages round the
Hippodrome and has been made to turn in every
direction but its progress in the air has not yst
been tested, and the utmos' secresy is observed
as to the means employed.
The submarine telegraph between Calais and
Dover is in such a state of advancement that il
will again be ready by the frStweek in May.
In the Kingdom of Naples, the last act Of
the political tragedy has been completed, and
from twenty to thirty men, some Of noble rank
some formerly ministers of State, some priests
and most men of education, have been paraded
through the streets of Naples, and shipped of fol
the prisons or the hulks. They are but portion
of those who suffer. or 40 Deputies, 81 are in
various ways victims "a have been shut up in
prison, unheard OF for two years; and 81 are refu
gees Three are hiding in the country one died
of starvation, and another was assassnRted by q
priest.
The Turkish Sultan has just conceded to the
officers Of his guard Of special corps, and of com
psnies of elite, the right Of allowing their musta
chios to grow in all their length. Formerly the
Janissaries alone had the privilege Of wearing
large mustachios, and since the destruction Of thai
formidable body no military corps has enjoyed il
The people look upon it as an extraordinary honor
Certain foreigners at present in the service OF
Turkey, are also, under certain conditions, and
as special favor, to be allowed the distinction
The Pope has just presented to the Vatican
rich collection of ponsifcal coins, commencing
from Gregory II. tA.D. 73ll,) and ending with
Gregory XVI.