New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-13

-FREDERIc RIcci, the composer, lately
died in the prime Of life and talent lie VAS stricken
by apcplexy in the pos,-cauisge between Wusax
and 81 Petersburg. Ricci vas the author of m.nv
operas. more ssul IN Italy than elsesh,re
bu. whore names are well known 10 the mux,c.,
public every where TIE Prigioai GEI.ubssyrs 70
the most famous OF his operas, among which RsQa.
Esfeiia, and Grissiaa are not unknosn. His Cor.
rado a'Altanura failed in Paris In 1884,
He had recently produced AT Venice aas R.,ra,ti.
an opera OF which he composed both xofas an,
music, and last May summoned to Russia, unas,
the especial patronage OF Field Marshal Pasie-
WITCH ard saw before hin the promise OF that bril-,
liant career which the great wealth and cultivation
OF the Russian ai,,ocrscy secure to few Fortunate
artists OF every KIND
On the I'd December he wrote to the dislns1lsAei
Tenor, MoTisni, that. for the first time, Fortune
smiled upon him. lie quotes nom his own opera
OF ROiiS, OF which the tenor part was written for
Mofiani-"A handles s.oss shall e0rsr ny srars--
smiles at the thought says that II will be his oxn
fault If it is so, and within few weeks reaches tae
scene of his anticipated tlumphs, a corpse.
England is laborIng under its periodical
PANIC at the chance OF a French invasion. NJ Nav
rice, swisi Captsir OF Engineers, has wril.ea a
work TO show the prob bic result of such a move.
msnt upon the part Of the French, and augars IN
fayorably TO Englan The London journals abound
in editorials and communications relating to the
matter, ard it is reported that tue Doke of yelling
ton had been in conference upon the subject with
other leading military men.
- 1t is stated in the last English Jour
nails that the Emperor OF Russia is not ooposedp
Lieut.. Pins proposed overland expedition Ia
political feeling toward Great Britain. Lieut.. PIN
has had an audience OF tho Car who desired hin
to reduce his proposition 20 writing. Tnere is no
difficulty about the transit across Siberia but IL Is
though. impracticsble to penetrate the countries Of
the Tchusski and Esqulmaux.
The Partisan Painter Chayenard has
already completed 90 of the so great pictures ius
atve of the progress and Development oftAe race,
which he was commissioned by Ledru Rollin, when
Secretary OF the Interior, to paint for the Pantheon
They are Is by IL feet, and are highly praised Ba,
now that the Pantheon is Church again, what shall
be done with them'
We observe 10 our German papers the
following illustration of religious liberty In Ger.
many. One OF the most respectable citizens Of
Schweinfurt, and member OF religious communion
dissolved by the Government, declined 70 have his
children confirmed according to the rights Of the
State Church. and was Informed that If he psrsis,sd
in keeping them away he would DO arrested
MIR. ELIOT WARBURToN, prior TO the
loss of the Amazon, published new novel called
"Darien: or, the Merchant Prince" in which
are related the incidents connected with two
shipwrecks, and also the awful occurrence OF ship
on FIRE Mr.. Warburton had insured his life ioS
flO,OCO before sailing in the Amazon.
A law has been receRtly passed in
England compelling all kinds Of Steam Machinery
employed in factories, printing establishments, &C.,
to be 30 constructed to consume their smokes
under penalty of from 60 to f5 for everJ day d
delay in conforming to the law.
Among the Louis Philippe tapestries are
several executed from Cartoons Of Rubens, with hunts
the great Flemish forests. several subjects from
Vatican. and I'VE pieces Of the time Of Louis XIII,
representing the months of the year BY small figures
"A Paris correspondent OF The New.
York TINES denies that Sue the French novelist, Is
the luxurious syoarite he has been frequently
presented. Hens temperate and virluous scholar
according to this rev account.
-MAcAuLAY's third and fourth volumes
Of English History are delayed, it is stated in con-
sequence of new Information he has recently Oh.
tanned in relation to King William the Third Who
s,he hero of the narrative
M. AssINGER. a Prussian sculptor, has
ust completed and presented to the King marble
statutite Of Rachel, with which his Majesty eI-
pressed his extreme satisfaction, and ordered Is
to be placed in the Library Of the Royal Palace at
Berlin.
"A Spanish Journal mentions the fol-
III ma
Ministry OF Finance at Madrid: Don Epii4no
Merurzururdurdua zengotila, Don Juan Nspana'
ceno de Burionss onatotoTecaso geazcoechea
--D'IsRAELl's Life Of Lord George Bent
mix has already passed to a third edition He A.
serts in this book with renewed vigor his favorie
doctrine Of the superiority Of the Hebrew 70 al
other races.
--THAcKERAY ID repeating his lectures
upon the Wits and Literary Men OF Queen Aanes
time, at the Maple Institute in LONDON hp
intention OF visiting this country seems TO be a9sa
doned.
The Able LAcORDAIRE and other emf
rent pulpit orators in Paris have brought action
against certain publishers for printing their sermons
% TAX en- down by short hani. The case Is net de'
ciced.
-LoRD MAHoN, the Historian of Condo
and Of England, will asss. in the Editorsaip OF ms
Peel papers. 1t Is said, good authority, thai 'hs
Duke OF Wellington has conhded his papenn We
same hand
--GEoRGE SAND is in retirement writing
her memoirs. They are expected to Overflow VIE
the fran kness or rather cynical contempt for man
Kind which Rousseau displays In his CoRfeniona"
AMBROSE THOMAS, young Freaei
Composer, author Of lie catd, and the sparslihs
Songe dune Nut dEts, is achieving musical triump~
in the Rhenish cities
SAMUEL WARREs's Now and Then
has been translated into German, and a German
trans alton OF all his works is announced Ia Stuttgart
-RoBERT BURss. grandson Of the Poet
was recently murdered by pirates, on the Coast
Borneo.