The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-31
ARD EVERETT, Secretary of State.
Foreign Items.


The National Library Of the Rue Richelieu lie to
be called hereafter Bibliotheque Imperiale.
The Minister Of Public Instruction addressed n
circular letter on the goth Of November to the rec
tore of the different colleges, directing them to
give the boys holiday on the great occasion of
the I'd of December. ..s'' 49,
In another circular, issued the LIST of Deem
Der, he requests the Archbishop to substitute the
words: Domino, saluum fac Lmperatoren nostrun,
Napoleonsm, to those at present chanted the end
of divine service. .. '.E ..
The promotion of Generals Ma gnan, st. Armand
and De Casfellane, raises the number of Rarshals
of France to seven. The four others are ReilIe
jerome Bonaparte, Harispe, and Valiant.
When the Pyophets of Mcyerbcer is PLAYED at
the Antwerp theatre, an innovation is introduced
in the skating ballet quite ia the taste of seaport
town. Two skaters fall through trap in the icer
| and reappear with an enormous fish, which they
are supposed to have caught while under water.
Eight small omnibus steamers are 10 run every
half hour on the Seine. from Choisy to Asnieres,
making nine stops in Paris. The prices will range
from three to six cents. @..@ 80 ., .s.
M. de Lamartne is publishing the prospectus of
his Ciuili.ater for 1858. Biographical sketches of
Cicero, Fenelon, Heloiae, Bacon, Alexander the
Great, Cesar, Tasso and the Weaver, jacquard,
are promised. The subscription price is six francs
|sor the year.
The Project of Police has warned the journals of
Paris that they will be held responsible for ex-
tracts from foreign papers, particularly those of
Belgium notwithstanding the papers from which
the extracts are taken may have passed the CEN
| The private political correspondence which pass
ed between Chatcaubriand and M. de Marcellus in
1928, OF which some fragments are given by Lam
artine in bis History of the Restoration, has been
lately published entire. -,.-. .. -.
stoker was killed, three 'brakemen severely
wounded, and twenty-six passengers more or less
bruised recently in a collision on the Mao,~id and
Aranguex Railroad.
Two prizes, of 81 900 each, are offered by the
French government for the two best dictionaries of
the Arabic language, Two years are allowed for
the completion of the work, beginning with the
first of January, 1853.
The Pope has ordered the construction of four
ew bridges over the Tiber, in the city of Rome.
company has been organising for this purpose,
The deliveries of tea in London for the week end
ing December nth were SOS, 49l lbs.
Lord Frankfort is in the house of correction He
wears the prison apparel. and appears 70 feel his
degradation most keenly. He. will be exennted
from the tack OF the treadmill and oakum picking
A witness of the two late ceremonies in France
and England, says that the proclamation Of the
Empire was far less mag nifcent than the Dukes
funeral, and great deal more melancholy.
M Michaud is engaged in publishing new eJi-
ton Of his uncIes celebrated Geographic Univrsee,
| which will contain the frat series and supplement
of that valuable work, with additions and coreec-
tions. II will be published in fifty two volumes,
9vo.; the tenth volume (Daab-Dhya) is publish
ed. The subscription price is l2fr. SOC. ($s2 SOY
per volume.
The son of Niebuhr. the historian, has published
up by his father in 1874, at the request of King
William I.
NJ Theirs has gone TO London to obtain from
Lord Mahon, the executor of the Duke of yelling
ton, the permission to read the Dukes papers re-
| lating to the wars of Spain and Portugal.