The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-27

Items or Interest from &c ur0pe.
General Harispe, whs has Just been promoted to
the rank of Marshal of France is in his eighty
third year He is Basque by birth, and no piss-
sure was 80 great for him, 1t is said, ~ that OF
oering over his native mountains in his old ego.
ana conversing with the peasants Hs carries his
love tor the scenes of his childhood. aud for the
primitive habits of their nhabitants, to an ex-
treme. he loves to converse in the Basque toague,
which he speaks al well, perhaps better. thea
French; and bis servants, instead of the ordinary
mountains Up to very short time sinco, General
Harispe still, Notwithstanding his time of life.
in all the vigor Of green old age.
The success Of the Channel telegraph is already
producing it's expected results. The COMPANY.
whose wires are a,seady at Holybead, are prepar'
ing to lay do wn series OF lines from that port to
Dublin. By way OF experiment, as We understand,
the parties interested i'll this mode Of com muniSa ion
between the two ISLANDS tend 10 lay in tho bed Of
tho Channel a cable OF four wires-txo of then DO
ing reserved for the exclusive Of the govern
mont. The distance il sboct sixty miles -tSree
times greater than that betgsen Dover and Calais
At Kingston the wires viii be attschsd to those OF
the Irish trunk ra lwRys running " Dublin, Cork
Galway and other in portaDt Sowns The COM
pletion ct these works 0us operate strongly Ia IA
vor OF the establishment OF packet station ut Gal
way; az, By way of lreiaud-the American !" over
land route''-the telegraphic distance bstwesn the
great European cap,tals- Paris, London. S,rGn
and VieDna-and Washington, would ke thus re-
duced from eleven to about 20 zen days
The Alexandra correspondent of the Losd,a
Times states thab Mr.. Stephenson had proceeded
from that city TO Cairo By land in order to in peot
the country we'll, and 60 come to a final decision
with regard to the precise to be adopted for
the Egyptian railway. ~ Mr. Stephenson saoms
TO think be says That the best plan will De TO
carry the railroad over the harrags, whore the
bridges are in very forward state and he is de-
termined to eDdeavof to have the l,ne ia working
condition within three yeats' TINA"
DIR, Cullen has completed his survey OF the 18TH
mus OF DaIieo. Ills lahors are said TO have had
important results-having brought to light the
fact tn st wide tract IF entirely aad evet land
extends from Port Escoces, on the Atlantic coast
of tho isthwas, 20 the River Savanna This river,
which falls mo the CUT Of Ssu Miguel on tae
Pacific, IL hos boon found is navisebe for sixtsen
miles and upwards from its mouth, for vessels of she
greatest draught of water; so tha, it would only
be required to deepen eight miles of it's upper
course, and to out nine hi from the river to Port
Eseoces, low ard loyal laod in order to form
canal communication between the Atlantio aud
Pacific oceans. IL is broadly asserted tnSt this
projected canal route, from the excellence of the
harb0rs on each SIDE, its shortne5s, and the Low
elevation of the country presents facilities which
no route hitherto proposed can ofer-the amount
OF work to be done being CONSIDERABLY less than
that which yet reDains 10 be done on the Fan anna
railroad. We need not say that we must wait
further details and descriptions of the Darien route
before we subscribe to terms so little qualified by
doubt of any kind.
Letters from st. Petersburg announce tho sud
den death, at the age Of seventy-one, OF the
ell.kDown Hellenist and cheologist Dr. Chris
tian Frederick Graefe Dr. Gcaele was the senior
member of the Academy of Sciences at st. Peters
burg. He had been formerly Professor OF Greek
Philology at the University Of the same city. and
was actually Professor Mt the Imperial Institute Of
Pedagogy and Chief Director Of the Museums Of
the Ermage Palace He is the aathor Of great
number Of works on ancient Greece and Russia
owes to him editions of the principal amongst the
old Greek authors. with notes and oommsnta-
ries. He published, also, description Of the
principal Greek and Roman antiquities existing in
different places Of Russia.
Dr. Neuman, Professor of History in tho Uni.
vereity of Munich. has completed his long oro-
missed .'History of the English Empire in Asia
and it is on the eve Of publication.
Dresden correspondent Of Kuhnes Earopn
states that number of humorous drawings,
eketchcd by the pencil of Schiller and aooom psnied
by descriptions in his own hand, have been found
in the possession Of q Swabian family, with whom
the great poet became acquainted during his resi-
dence at Loschwitz.
When Charles the Twelfth, King of Sweden. was
killed by ball directed against him from the for
tress of Friedrichstadt, to which he lad laid SIEGE
simple column OF marble, bearing ne other inscrip-
ton than the monarch's name and the date Of his
death, was raised to mark the spot. This column
having gradually given way before the pieoe-meaI
depredations ofreic-iQvng tourists until not frag-
mined that worthier monument shall OCCUPY its
place and having submitted the matter to public
subscription, three fourths of the sum needed was
offered OF IN less than two days The work is to be
the subject OF competition, .
Mdle Cruvelli's success Seems of tho two, loss in
Paris this than it was in London, and to be
already on the wane in the French capital She has
attempted the part Of Maria in 9 La Figlia del
Reggimento," and failed in it. II she be wise
enough to profit by her failures, Mdlle Cruveli
may still achieve great success. At the perform
ance in question Herr Eokert conducted the
orche stra in place Of Herr Hitler, whose term Of
service-n this substitution betokens its end-has
proved shorter than SEINE OF US anticipated it
might be.
On grounds Of a similar nature-the substantial.
ton OF opinions in which for while We stood alone
we must record that NJ Gounod's "Sappho" has
been again produced at the Grand Opera. The
drama is now shorn Of oil patriotic :. mischief"
that it contained-by the retrenohment of the en-
tire part OF Alceus-and as much Of the intrigue as
set forth the conspiracy. How M. Anglers Hbpetto
fares under such Presidential we cannot guess:
but the music Of the opera, in particular its ex-
quisite third act, is now firmly established with the
Partisan c0IlaolsSeHys
The Turf.
AUGUSTA RACES Three mile heats. on Thursday 18th
inst For this days purse there four entries
Col sngleton's b Capt. Minor years old, BY Mon
arch, dam by Gaucus.
j. 9; o'Hanlons g otto~ay years old by Boston,
1oy, Couory