Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-10-01
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ITEMS.


cestershrc Eng the seat Of the late Warren Hastings
bought by Mr. Griscwood of the London Stock
Exchange for G30 300 The sale of the furniture at the
mansion occupied six days, and brought ca 000 1t was
purchased by Warren Hastings in 1888 for 800 and
subsequently he placed improvements upon it costing
100000 He resided there for twentyfour years after
his impeachment and trial. and died in 1872 and was
buried there. His wife resided upon the estate until
1885, when she also died. leaving it to her by her
first husband lie died recently and hence the SALE
Scotch farmers are emigratng to Ireland. They are
settling in the south and west, account Of superior
soil and low rents.
Eight thousand seven hundred and fourteen persons
visited the Dublin Exhibition on the 7th instant
Lieut. General Sir Neil Douglas, KCB, K.C.H., died
the st instant at Brussels in the 7ith year OF his
age and after service Of fifty years. The deceased
served during the most trying Of the pennsular
campaigns, and for less period than twenty-five
years Commanded the 10Th Highlanders lie took part
in the battles of Busaco the Pyrenees, Nivee, Niye
Toulouse and Waterloo For his services at the latter
he decorated with the Austrian order Of
Maria Theresa and the Russian of St. Vladimir, Fourth
class and for wounds received at Busaco and Waterloo
received pension Of G300 per Sir Neil Douglas
abide camp to George Nv. and William ". lie was
native of the city Of Glasgow and was descended from
the old Eas OF Angus through the Dougasses Of Crux
ton and Stobbs.
SmPwRrcK.-The London papers give account of
the wreck of the ship Rebecca the of Van Die
mans land with the loss Of the captain, his wife, and
nineteen of the She sailed from Gravcsend the
I'd Of last December On the Goth of April she reached
the west coast of Van Demans Land, and, while sailing
at the rate of eight and half knots hour struck
violently reef, and within few hours the ship
fast breaking up The resolved to make attempt
to reach the hore only quarter of mile distant Out
of thirty men only eleven saved They formed an
encampment end subssted few articles of food that
had hoated ashore from the wreck After enduring
privations and suffering for nearly fortnight they
surprised at the appearance of dog, which hailed
as the harbinger of their deverapce Fearing he might
away they wrote account of their situation and
tied it round his The dog, it appeared belonged
to gentleman named Burgess, who with party
plorDG the country to The southwark The moment they
heard the wreck which was by the return Of the dog
they set out and with the survivors eff the Re-
becca the twenty third day after the ships loss. The
poor fellows fast sinking when the exploring party
up and through their attention and kindness their
lives were preserved.
letter from Athens of the Goth ultmo gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the destruction of Thcbes by
earthquake eleven persons have lost their lives and
eighteen have been taken from the ruins badly wounded
The town composed partly Of new houses soldly
built and partly of old constructed Of wood and
bricks The first have been entirely destroyed and had
not the inhabitants hurried away they would have been
buried in the ruins and the second class of houses
injured to be unnhabitablc The whole population
encamped in the open air. The King and the Queen
when informed Of this sad event. sent five hundred drach
and quantity of military tents to the inhabitants
Not only Thebes but also the neghborng villages far
Plaea have much suffered that there seventeen
of them which quite uninhabtabe. The town Of
Chass also has had some houses destroyed by this earth
quake. For the last eighteen years shocks have been
frequently felt at Thebes and Athens and sometimes
veral shocks have been felt within the Of twenty
four hours"
ST. parthoomews Fair, after having existed seven
hundred and twenty years. has recently been abolished
The charter for the annual celebration granted in
1855 The proclamation must be continued ordered
by the charter and the court of the Pie Poudre open
ed, but not the least vesge Of any GALE
viii be left to attract q crowd.
MADAM, Ida Pfeifer is on her way to California.
The Choral Society of Cologne has presented thirteen
thousand four hundred francs the fund for completing
the Cathedral
part Of the land gained by draining the Lake of |
Harlem has been sold for 100000 francs which will
more than the expense Of draining the whole lake
One Of the largest nunneries existing is in Bel
GUM, and accommodates nine hundred nuns.
The Chinese have curious sarcastic expressions
OVERRIDING thing they call ga hunchhack making |
bow, and clustering, harmless fellow they denominate
"a paper tiger"
and Borrowdale, Cumberland.
Punch, in his fashions notice for October says "bon
nets will be worn on the small Of the back"
The Siby estate, belonging to the Hon Mrs Petre |
has been sold to Lord Londesborough for ego 600 Mrs
Pere whose property left by her husband entirely
Mt her own disposal has taken the veil in nunncry in
France, which will Of receive the whole Of her
fortune
new portable running hand apparatus has been in
vented, by which the blind enabled to write.
OF the Unirersalist persuasion there are one hundred
and twcnthree ministers and two hundred and thirteen
societies in the United States.
The Mormons making an effort for the conversion
Of India to the creed Of Joe Smith Thirteen "mnis-
ters arrived there from the City Of the Salt Lake via
California.
Some sixteen hundred acres Of land have recently been
purchased in Iowa, which colony Of monks have
settled
The Presbyterian Church in Canada comprises eight
presby hundred churches and mission stations
and near ninety ministers Nine years ago there were
only about twenty three twenty -four ministers.
Information has reached the Navy Department Of the
recent death Of Second Assistant Engineer Washington
H. Nones, and Third Assistant Engineer George T. Shock
in the vicinity Of Pensacola, of yellow fever
The steamboat Utica, on her upward trip from New
York Tuesday night 10 Catsk was run into by the
sloop James Grant Poughkeepsie. The steamer
was close in the east Shore the soop bound New
York with fair wind. The bowsprit Of the sloop en-
tered the after part Of the ladies' cabin carrying away
and with II young female passenger named yatt from
Greenviile about sixteen years Of age.EUsning Poet
MODERN TRAvELLBF.--Sir George Ross, from Mon
trea arrived in this city on Sunday morning by the
Michigan Southern Railroad. lie has irpeny-ons dogs
with him, three servants four Of baggage, compris
ing any quantity Of guns kuapsacks and other shooting
utensils He leaves in few days for Minnesota 70 take
hunt from thence he will proceed to Texas spend the
winter and designs taking an excursion to the Rocky
Mountains in the spring Chicago Tribune 81 Wedaesday
IMPORTED CRIsE-The New York Times states that
the latest statistics of crime found in tho abstract
OF the seventh From that It appears that the
whole number Of persons convicted Of crime in the United
States for the year ending june 1850 was about
Or these $4,000 natives, Including coored prison
ers and 1000 foreign born by the same authority,