Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-03-26
Foreign Items.


There are AZ lighthouses on the English coast;
IL on the Scottish, and 26 on the Irish coast.
Marquetry is in wood, what mosaic is in stone.
India rubber balloons are produced by blowing
up bit of rubber that has been boiled in water
for an hour or two.
Macauley has been elected Corresponding Mem
Der of the Academy of Sciences, in place of the
late DIR. Lingard.
The state of morals in Australia is infinitely
worse than it has ever been in California Per-
haps some of the English Dickenses will look into
this.
The recent cold weather in London has increas-
ed the weekly mortality.
Three hundred and fifty thousand letters passed
through the London Post-oflce on ST. Valentines
day.
Sir Thomas Brancker, distinguished Liver
pool merchant, is dead.
Under the new regime in France boards are
about to vanish from the human face divine.
Count de Hossonville, son-n-aw to the Due de
Broglie, has been imprisoned for a short time, for
speaking disrespectfully of the Emperor.
The correspondent of the London News, writ
ing from Washington, says: ''There is small
spot, on which more are-faced corruption grows,
and prospers faster, than at Washington"
The export Of sherry from Cadiz the last year,
has decreased 525 butts. Prices have advanced.
The plan of making ship canal across the 18th
mus of Darien, is not without warm advocates in
England. The route is 80 miles in length from
Port Escosses to the Gulf of San Miguel by the
way of the river Savannah. A dividing ridge is
crossed by transverse valies, and the cutting would
be about SO feet. The canal would be without
locks. The harbors at both ends are good.
There are thirty six members of parliament who
are conformsts representing nearly 1000, 600
of persons.
Seamen for the public service are now obtained
with great difficulty in England.
A stocker on board H. NJ ship Valorous, has
become entitled to the Eardom Of Stockport, and
estates producing $4,000 year.
Twelve steamers are now on their way from
England to Australia.
The second son of Prince Canine (Lucen Bona
parte) is about to enter the Romish church.
The Pacha Of Egypt has given orders for level
f ing the Isthmus of Suez.
1t is owing 10 the exertions of Eliza Cook, the
poetess, that E4O0 have been raised for the pur-
r pose of Erecting monument to Thomas Hood.
By Lord Melbourne's DEATH Lord Palmerston
has become possessed of twenty thousand pounds
year.
7 Jules Janin calls the lobster, ''the Cardinal Of
: the seas" He could never have Sen lobster
except on the table.
) Jessi, the celebrated Florentine engraver, is
dead.
!, A singer, Signora Eastcott, an American lady,
is attracting much attention at Naples.
a There is not an old book shop book-stall in
}, London, says the Athenaum, where the Ameri-
1t cans not reported to be the best customers.
; The English say that the Messrs Stirling sue
n ceeded in working caloric engine, as early as
1898 Mr. LIE Moine, Frenchman, claims the
merit of having invented the wire-gauze part Of
the new motor.
y In Mr. Kean's new rendering of Macbeth,
4 through the means of costume and architectural
- decorations, his success has been remarkable
4 The weird sisters made more shadowy by the
intervention Of gauze. At the banquet, harper'
are introduced playing in a gallery: the face o.
Banquo is made luminous. His second appear
~ ance takes place within column made Transparent
for the purpose. The whole arrangement wal
m grand and picturesque.