The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-07-12
Foreign III ings.


During a speech delivered at
Spaulding, England, lately At the in
auguration of protection society for
young ladies, it was stated that in
London there are now 5000 houses Of
in fame in Dublin 3l5; in Edin-
burg 2l0; 10 Liverpool TOT in Man.
chester 400 and in Leeds 200. In
Liverpool the number Of houses is
said TO have increased by 126 in two
years.---The newest dodge" for
turning penny is that which the
Sixth Avenue railroad company in
New York are perpetrating, namely,
letting out the PANELS Of the cars for
tradesman to advertise their goods
some in painted letters, some in gold
leaf, according to pay.----W ash
ington Monument is now I32 feet
high the workmen have been delayed
on account of raising additional der
ricks. Three blocks have been re-
ceived this month---one from Califor-
MIA, one from the highest peak of
Mount Otter, Va, and one from
the Cliosophic Society Of Princeton,
n. J.--The Falkland Islands
contain population of only tacenty-
seyeu men. women and children, and
vet the British Parliament lately
made salary appropriations to the off,
GERS of the colony amounting to about
$4,000 a year. 1t is understood
that all the salaries are pocketed by
three or four persons.---The
United States sloop-of-war Decatur,
now fitting out at the Charlestown
Mass. } Navy-yard, is to be command
ed by Commodore Whittle, and will
proceed to her station in the Gulf
Squadron as soon as she gets a crew.
Tile late bills of mortality in
dictate 100 deaths a week in London.
That is 157 a day, or about six and a
half an hour. London is a great place
to live in, and il seems to serve to die
in also.---The editor of the New
York Day Book has been held to bail
to answer a charge of libel against
Stephen Bates, growing out of
publication in relation to the gam
blers.---Mr Bryant, of the New
York Evening Post, has returned
from his tour in Europe and the
Fast. He arrived in the Humboldt.
-The steamer Sultana was sold
at Louisville on the 18th ult., by the
Marshal of the Cbancery Court, and
brought $4,000. The purchaser
was Capt. Bentley, of the Glendy
Burke---A Swedish artist, Garlic
man, has made new discovery,
which he calls photochromography, by
means of which he takes from 300 to
400 copies per day, Of objects in all
their natural colors.- bill
abolishing capital punishment passed
the Senate of Connecticut on the 25th
ult. 1t substitutes solitary confine-
ment, with provision that the con-
Wet shall not be pardoned unless
new evidence of his innocence trans
pires. Roman sarcophagus
has Just been discovered in London.
1t is large stone chest, in which was
a leaden coffin, containing skeleton,
imbedded in lime. The coffin was
sculptured and highly ornamented.
--During the year 1852, Of &c.
1875, 100 railway passengers in Great
Britain, PIG were killed, and 1876 in
jured. During the same year, in the
State of New York, of 7,440, 653 pas
sengers, 248 were killed, and 269 in
jured.--The Pope has ordered
the Roman artist, Jacometti, to exc
cute in marble statue representing
Judas giving the kiss of treason to
our Saviour" which is to be placed
in one of the upper halls of the Vati-
can.--An English paper states
that Caroline Bronte, autboress of
Jane Eyre, Shirley and Fillette,
thinks Of coming to this country shortly.