New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-07
Foreign Items.

The monthly shipping lists show an enormous increase
in the number Of ships destined for Australia. Ninety
five vesstls-nearly forty thousand tons hurthen-sre
nounced to sail the present month from the Thames be-
sides eighty from Liverpool and others from different out
ports Several of these vessels foreigners of small ton
intended for the of merchandise There
is great speculation in this branch of trade Freights
have risen considerably f7s being asked for fine goods
to Sydney and Melbourne liquids f2 per hhdi rough
goods, f6id6 l5si steerage Passengers t22 but the
the exectation Of fall Of e. or f3 per ton.
At special meeting Of the Society of Arts resolutions
adopted extending penny postage to the British col
Mr. Ingersorl, and several other ambassadors, dned
with Lord John Russell recently.
The first of the fell at Liverpool on the
l1th about one inch and half in depth and South
smpton the day preceding for the first time in two
years,
the name Of the "Amercanand British Timber and Cot
ton Land Company, with quarter of a million sterling
trade tract of lani Situated near Daren Georgia
Shares hundred dollars.
The centenary of the birth of Roscoe the elder to be
celebrated at Liverpool the sth inst.
The City of Dublin Steam Packet Company have noti-
fed to Mr. Foy U S consul that they will forward free
Of charge, from Dublin to Liverpool all goods and pack
ages from Dublin and surrounding districts for the New
York Exhibition.
Two editors have been sentenced to months imprison
and to 500 fine each for stating than Murat had
bought and going to occupy the Chateau Of Neuy
The statement was not true
fer wearing his button hole artifcis r De ys and
upon his shrtb bosom button also representing ar de
ys The offence is technically described as displaying
The Minister Of Finance Of the French Empire announ
his report that the receipts for the present
year will meet the expenditure without the imposition Of
any taxes. This announcement was very tayoraby
resolved on the Bourse,
The RING OF Essex x-Historical readers familiar
with the story respecting the ring which Queen Elizabeth
her fyos Essex promising that she would inter
pose him in his need he should send back
that ring her token The tale goes that when be fell
under her dpasure and sentenced to tho block he
dispatched the ring to her Majesty by the Countess OF
Noting ham but that the messenger instead OF delivering
the token reseherously withheld it, the consequence
of which was that executed and that Elizabeth
wear after learning perhdy which he and she had
been victims pued away and died in less than month
time This romantic legend has long been regarded
fiction and given noyests their proper prey
work lately published in London Lives and Letters
the Deyeraux Earls of Essex contains documents
that render the truth Of the tradition probable to the
least Ia fact the London Athen@um Which Is by no
creduous Journal declares its full belief In the
story aud asserts that the identical ring plain gold
one with portrait of Elizabeth is still in existence
Truth certainly often stranger than hetion ana the In
cident besides is emneny characteristic oi Ae queen
Perhaps historical writer's have heen 100 sHtpeai tSr
these last hun ded years in rejecting every thing which
| like this tale has an air Of romance
| prNysytvAxrA pEAy AND DuMs ISsrIruTE--Durng the
year 1852 SO pupils wiz ID boys and II grls) wero
admitted, and %, (yz 10 boys and Is grls) were dis
There remained in the Institution the 3lst day o.
December 1852 rs boys and 65 girs-otal l43 OF thi
number 81 supported by the State of Pennsylvania
IA by the State of Maryland 10 by the State of Ney
Jersey by the State OF Delaware, and Is by thei
| friends or by the Institution
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| A CANDID ApMIssIoN-A member Of the United State
Senate, in debate. few days since, made ths candid az
mission. He said:
The two Houses of Congress had reduced themselves
the condition of being utterly incapable OF doing
legislative business other than passing the appropriate
bills aud they passed after strange fashion in h
last hours OF the session. when they rushed through k
a shot out Of a shovel
SUPREME CouRr OF tbs UNIrEp SrATEs-fetrnaiy II
Is53-FTaucis Turkey. Esq, Of Massachusetts, ROD
Toombs ESD of Georgia, and j NJ Eam Esq OF Lou ~
ana were admitted attorneys and eounseIofs OF TIL
Court.
Is The LONGER live the more certain | am tina
the great difference between the great slgnihcant
enervy nyincibe determination honest purpose ono
that can he done ia the world and talents circun
1t stances no opportunity, will make twolesged cresa
q man without it.