New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-15
ForeiPn Items.

From the NewYork Evening Post1
The stereoscope, a beautiful optical instrn-
ment, by which pictures plane assume all the ap-
pearance of sody with real light and shadow is the
last popularity in England. The Instruments now
ufacturrd in this city.
Shells of galvanized iron IAN excellent idea,)
beginning to be adopted exclusively in the English
tilery service.
The naval department of the English Board
of Trade is determined to enforce the law requiring every
English vessel to carry certain number Of feboats
One hundred thousand pounds Of phosphorus
annually consumed in England in the manufacture of
matches
There are 200 omnibusses daily running in
| London.
Portable barometcrs, small enough for the
pocket manufactured with great success.
The English Attorney General, Sir Frederick
Thesiger. married niece Of Major Pierson who fell in the
attack on Jersey by the French in ISL Many of our
readers remember the celebrated engraving representing
this attack, one Of the finest specimens of English art
At the recent assizes in Lincoln, Justice
Maue presiding feeling want of fresh air in the court
ROOM directed the windows to be opened. Some delay
curing he impatient and ordered the officers to dash
the panes out. This done in less than no time.
much to the amusement of the bar Maule Ventiia
tom will henceforth be good authority in similar
Louis Napoleon issuses his public documents
in his President of the Republic, and
| longer in the name Of the people,
| American newspapers entering France, have
now to pay stamp duty, and SO have the English
private letter informs that certain papers of will
| be excluded altogether.
| The apprehension in England that Louis Ma
poleon is not without intention Of making warlike
ment the Channel is bringing into activity many
Of those old institutes connected the army navy
which have been almost forgotten for the last generation
The London Marine Society. which takes young
der its care fit them for the naval service has received
| year.
| The Prussian exhibitors at the Worlds Fair
about open Crystal Palace of their in May
| next ut Bresau,
The portrait of the late Marshal Marmont,
in the Tuieries has for many years been covered with
black veil in memory Of his alleged treason Napoleon
| THE Marionette Theatre, in London, draws
largely critic observes that the perform
ably but they all to stand very loosely their leg
Fanny Kemble is reading Shakespeare at the
st James Theatre and occasionally il assisted by music
adapted to the plays. Thus she gives the Midsummer
Nights Dream, with thu music of Mendelssohn.
One Of the cleyerest shows in London is a pic
toral ascent of Mont Blanc. in which hIr - Peabody
Taylor, NewYork dandy. is "A character
The Chinese Government has made PROPOSE
ton hire East India operate against
rebels on the coast Where is George Law Where are
| those muskets Where is George Sanders?
The unusual GOODNESS of the weather in Lon
don has produced large increase in the numher
The second week in March showed difference of twenty
per cent in contrast with the first week of February
The London Athenaum, abiding to some Of
the exaggerated news, current in the late American
newspapers says they have begun to grow their great
turnips earlier THAI usual this year. inst so.
At the last meeting of the Royal Institution
the Duke Of Northumberland in the Chair. j. s Russell
Esd read paper way" line ships and yachts in
which he admitted the entire superiority the America
snip builders the English and admitted that We haG
the best and most scientifically constructed pack
cts. steamers and yachts.
The sale of the library Of the late King. Louis
Philippe. is now going in Paris it is expected to las
for about month 1t is particularly rich in ma nuscript
and poems Of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
amongst which the precious is famous romance
the only copy existing and which expected
to sell for upwards OF ten thousand francs.
g Bleak House" has had the largest sale Of
any Mr. Dlckcnss serials far. The first imp esnr
twenty five thousand copies swept up by the trad
at twenty thousand were put to press nlnedatc
after which have been nearly disposed Of. Take tn
whole issue forty thousand and say half clear profit
"a moderate cacuationJ there is Fl GOO month from
this alone, saying nothing of the value of copy
right.