The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-18
FOREIGN Items.

Foreign Items.
Inc total number of vessels in Liverpool now
preparing Tor the various ports of Australia is "a;
me total amount of registered tonnage q, 317
Inc sallings from that port from the 26th MAY to
the lst June instant, were three vessels for Mel
bourne, Of an aggregate tonnage of $50 tons
Inc salllngs for the Australian ports during the
month Of May were as follows: Sydney, vesse s.
aggregate tonnage, 2,7S2; Melbourne, IL vessels,
o'5oi tons; Geelong, vessels, 1878 tone; AIDE
lalde and Sydney, / vessel, TAI tons; Port AIDE
lalde, vessel, 5l2 tons; Sydney and Bombay |
vessel, o69 tons; making a total twenty-five YES
sells, and an aggregate tonnage of Il, 64l tons.
In the House Of Lords, the Earl Of Carlisle took
occasion to explain with reference TO hs speech on
the Cuban slave trade, that he acquitted General
Iacon, os well as Yades and Concha of any par
tlclPation in the slave trade Tacou's admins
TatIon OF CUBA (sald Earl Carlise) was vigorous
and enlightened; ne did not suppress the trade
but suffered the money to be levied which he af-
forwards applied for public purposes and GER
talnly not Tor his own emolument. On this
account ne would seem TO be entitled to be placed
on the same level with General Concha.
Two paintings on glass, which are to be placed
IN 1t. Peters Chapel, Cambridge, as memorials of
the late Professor Smyth, have lust been finished
at Munich, and are sad to be master pieces in the
art OF glass painting. They are seven feet broad
and thirteen feet high, and represent the birth and
resurrection OF Christ after the pictures of Claud
US Schrendolph.
letter from Madrid, of the l4th ultimo, says:
Yesterday some mssons, in demolisbipp en- old
81. Vincent, discovered IN the wall of one of the
cellars i've large of silver full of gold coins
OF tne age OF Ferdinand the Sixth and Charles the
Ihlrd The value of the treasure is about ETA 900
English.
The Duke Of Genoa, (brother of his majesty the
KING OF sardinla,) attended by the MARQUIS
d'Azegiio, Sandman Minister, has visited Eng.
land, and had audience with the Queen some
Importance Is attempted to be attached to his visit
IN political point Of view
The London returns of mortality do not We [
Indicate that improvement in the public health
mat might nave been expected from the more ia
vorable character of the weather. The deaths in
London during the four weeks of Nav were re.
sPecuyely, l.l59, l.O99, i09S, and 1928; the mean
weekly temperatures of the month were Al deg.
y, t53, 80 2, and So 2.
The Chamber of Deputies of Piedmont has con-
hrmed the making Of the Victor Emanuel railway
oy majority of eighty to invent Y four votes
Inc hne will unite Savoy, Piedmont, md Genoa
and will form a railway Communicates, ,-ros, r.
Alps.
The screw steamer Atlas took fire on the 18th
ait, Immediately after her arrival at Algiers
from Marsellles. The fire is supposed to have
been caused BY box of chemicals, put on board
as urugs: Inc vessel was saved, though with
great difficulty.
Letters from Sicily say that the wine crops are
again likely to fail; already there are indications
OF craps blight. 1t is feared, Also that the olive
tree VIII not De productive this year. At Naples
lamp OIL Is now imported to a great axtent.
According to the Journal de Granville the num-
Der OF oysters taken the French banks last
season was ninety -four millions of the value of
E4O,OOO English. The oyster fishery EMPLOYS
l,5lo men, and 253 boats, amounting in the whole
to II, $50 tons
The Venice Gazette announces from Rome that
aonslgnor Spaccapietra has been entrusted by the
rope with special mission to ST. Domin 90 for
tne purpose OF browning Emperor Faustin l., in
accordance with his request
At the sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences.
on the 24th uitlmo, NJ. Arago informed the ,ocie-
" OF the discovery of another small planet of the
tenth or eleventh magnitude, seen in the course
Prussia. "
committee had undertaken TO have BARON
Marochettl's colossal statue of Richard Ceur de
Leon, executed In Bronze, to be erected in London
as memorial Of the Worlds Fair of 1851
Inc KING and Queen of Hanover leave on the
I4'n instant Tor London, passing by Calais In
rAVerslng the French territory they will preserve
strict incognito.
Since the goth ultimo the express trains, which
leave Paris at twenty five minutes past six in the
morning, reach London at twenty minutes past
seven the same evening.
letter from the French deet at Salamis states
that, at recent trial of artillery practices with
toe great guns OF the fleet, only shots in 900
fell wide Of the mark.
The accounts of the German emigration of this
year state that il is greater than that of last The
emigrants chiefly from Wurtemburg and
other parts Of Southern Germany.
Inc King OF Prussia has conceded to the Eng
lish community at Berlin piece of land in the
grounds OF the Chateau de Monbijou, for the pur-
pose Of constructing an English church.
Five thousand charity children, from fifty seven
schools, held their anniversary with religious ser
vices, IN ST. Paul's Cathedral, London, on I'd inst
In consequence of the opening of the Neva, part
OF the Russian fleet has come out from Cronstadt
Tor the purpose of practising eyolutions in the
Baltic.
An English company ia being formed 10 work
silver and lead mines in Sardinia.
IL Is reported that the coronation Of the Emperor
OF the French has been fixed for the 10th Septem-
Der.
The proposed marriage of the Duke of Brabant
has been officially announced in the Belgian
Chambers.
The great musical festival at Cologne on the
7th instant, is expected to be graced by the pres
ence Of her Majesty Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert.
b. Miraysedi, a Greek merchant of Manches
ter, has failed for E26, 900 sterling.