New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-30
FOREIGN MISCELLANY,

1t is said that the amount Of cotton received
ut Liverpool will averase 1000 tons per day
The Earl of Belfast has been delivering public
lectures the poets of the 10th ce"tnfy'"
The income of the Wesleyan Missionary socl-
ETY. is half million dollars per annum.
A patent has been taken out for ballasting
ships with water
Another conspiracy against the Spanish Gov
eminent has been discovered in Madrid
The French army at Rome is amusing the
beau monde with sham fights
The attempt to raise cotton from American
seed. in Ceylon. has failed
The Duchess of Buccleuch has been received
into the Roman Catholic Church by Cardinal Wiseman.
The London Illustrated News says, that this
country is destined in due time, to oversf adow the
world with its power and glory"
Sir James Matheson, the wealthy Laird of
Lewis. of the Hebrdes, has assisted thousand
pauper tenantry to emigrate to Canada.
Mr.. Bristed's sketches of the upper ten thous-
and in NETWORK, in Frascr's Magazine have been re-
published in q volume.
The greatest disorder is said to prevail in the
European society of Alexandria Eleven murders have
occurred since the LIST of January among the European
residents-or rather. vagabonds.
Four hundred families are preparing to emf
CRATE from Skye to Australia. What kind of country
that be whence its working population emgra
ting by the hundreds of thousands every year to
starvation!
| The new French Legislative Corps, while
waiting the ceremony of being sworn in said to have
passed their leisure moments in amring their costume
showing in their good deal of innocent and
| even inantile delight
| In looking over the ssTo Lets" in the Liver
pool papers we are struck says the N Y Evening Post
with the number or elegant commodious country vii
las near that city with Conservatives ut-houses stables
lawns etc be rented at from $3.50 to $500 year only
ENJOYS are about to be sent by England and
France to the river Plate to open the of that
l +,,o, ntnhn rhnS To
ago appointed consul to Paraguay but his commission
| has not yet been issued.
The ladies of Bremen lately attempted to pre-
sent petition to the Senate of that city that favorte
meacher might be restored to his pulpit The ungallan
Senators refused receive them and because the ladies'
did not depart enough the police qaad in and
forced them to go home taking nothing by their notion
The last number of Dickens Household Words
contains yery interesting account of Chids Hospita
recently established in London suggestive to the N,
Evening Post of the fact that in New York the rges
number of deaths is among the children OF the poor
that hospital for the reception OF them when SICK wot
be valuable institution.
| The Trieste Gazette states, from Freyesa, II
Turkey that the mosque of that place having been rucl
by lightning and entirely destroyed the Turkish inhabit
ants, by way of consolation resolved upon an outrag
against the Christians They procured crucihx whicl
they dragged through the streets compelling every Chris
tan who passed. pain of death to tranple and spi
upon it.
II has been seriously proposed to restore tn
mutilated tombs and statues in Westminster abbey t
their original condition This proposition comes from tn
Institute of Architects but vehementy opposed by tn
antiqaarans who wish preserve these RELICS they
We might WELL they say attempt to restore the burn
part OF the Magma Charta with modern parchment an
fresh ink.
Mr.. Rives, our Minister to France, was pres
ent at the Inauguration of the French Legislature
amusing incident occurred which all the spectators
loved General Pelitet called to take the oath
officer gravely and said, not Pqllitet but Pc
Ietere Je jure' 1t much saying swear
peletere and not Pelitet equivoque which may on
i | day be of service to him.