The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-19

had acquired considerable activity although IA
| many articles n was checked by the high prices
asked, TO which purchasers hesitsted to submit
A very largo portion of the corn within thirty
miles of Paris Is already cut, and much is carried
Ii the weather should continue favorable for short
time, the corn harvest In this part Of France win
look very healthy, and promise an average crop Of
grapes, whilst in others the blight is very prevalent
The sums paid into the Paris savings banks during
the week ended July 80, amounted to 657 sO5f.,
from ,6Ss depositors, of whom 747 were new. The
amount drawn out was 426 2l6f. The receipts Of
the casse de retIates were IS ,2l2f, from l6l new
depositors.
| letter from Icghon, of July 20. says:-"The
Grand Duke OF Tuscany seems determined to set an
example OF activity to the other States Of Italy in
railway matters He has just accorded the conces
SION OF the line from Florence to Arezzo to Messrs
tiandell Brothers. engineers, of London, Paris. and
Florence. This railway, which runs directly north
north Of Italy with Rome and will. with other lines
now In the course of execution constitute the great
central railway of Italy. Various branches from this
central line will communicate with the ports OF
Genoa, Legh0n, Civita Vecchia, DC, and will. in
fact, throw open the whole Of the northern part Of
the peninsula OF Italy,
From the returns just published in Paris, il APP
pears that from the opening of the to the end
Of June, the quantity of beet root sugar manufac-
tured in France amounts to Il, 2G6, 470 kiogrammes
against 73 972 760 klogrammes at the corresponding
period Of last year. being an increase Of 1922 ITO
kilogrammes in favor of 1868 The quantity deliv-
cred to consumption was 70,47l, 494 kiogrammes,
s,76G OCT more than last year. The quantity re-
naming in stock on the 30th June was IA 1896
kilogrammes.
Constantnople, from its admirable situation on
the Bosphorus Is the key OF Asia, and the principal
e9t'epot Of the Levant. The movement Of naviga-
ton IN 1876 amounted in that port to 900 tons.
Out OF this number the English flag reckoned for
500 900 tons, the Austrian for 2S4 900, the French
for 20 600, and those of Sardinia Naples Tuscany,
&C., for about 100000; the remainder belonged to
the coastDg trade. From these details an idea may
be formed of the interest which the powers Of the
West must find in preserving such an advantageous
market and which will 60 on increasing as the peo-
pie Of the East improve in civilization 1t is mo.e
enjoy the same advantages il Constantnople were to
fall into the jealous and rival hands Of Russia.
The Court OF Asszes of Friburg has Just delivered
its Judgment against the persons compromised in
the ipsurrection Of the 22d April Col. Perrer the
Cure Delley, and MN Jean Carrard Morard, Joseph
and Jacques Perroud, and Jean Marchon, who were
declared guilty OF high treason with extenuatng cir
cumstances. have been condemned. the two first to
thirty years bansmert, and the five others to four
years imprisonment, this not being their first
offence All the others, to the number of 1885, were
declared not guilty. and ordered to be set at liberty
NJ. Arago, Perpetual Secretary OF the French
Academy of Sciences, who had found himself better
since his return to Paris, had, on Saturday July 80
asked for the letters of the week hoping to be able
to what they contained for the next public sit
ting. He was, however obliged to send word that
be had presumed too much on the improvement
which had taken place, and that he would not be
able to attend the sitting. There appears to be
doubt, however. that the illustrious astronomers
health is somewhat better.
The Bedouns. says Mr.. Layard. are acquainted
with few medicines The deserts yield some valua-
BILE s!mples, which are, however, rarely used. pr.
Sandwith hearing from Sutton that the Arabs had
no Opiates, asked what they did with person that
could not sleep. "Do!' answered the Sheikh; Eve
can use him. We set him to watch the cames.'
Miss Warner, the author of the "Wide Wide
World has been handsomely treated by the London
publishers of her works. two Of whom have sent her
large her share of the profits Of their sale in
England One noted publisher has made her
standing offer of thousand pounds sterling for any
thing she may choose to write.
According to Parliamentary return, the esti-
mated number of volumes ia the library of the
British Museum is $40 ITO.
The Loadon Times states that the great Aus
tralian nugget lately exhibited at Mr. Wylds Globe
in Leicester Square, has been melted and sold by
Messrs. Haggard q Pixley, bullion brokers, for
f5,532 Its weight before melting was ,6lj ounces;
and it yielded 1919 ounces of fine gold, equal to
! ,d23 ounces standard.
One commercial house in Limerick, Ireland, has
contracted for the supply Of breadstus to the French
government to the amount OF f25000
1t is said that the ex.Queen Christina of Spain is
about to visit the exueen of France, at Clarem0nt,
England.
Baer, a German astronomer calculates that when
we shall have an instrument nine times more power
ful than Lord Roses, it will bring the moon within
q German mile OF us, as to show object as small
as a man.
The Iennies doing great things with their disk
steam engine, and have built number of vessels on
this principle for foreign traders. There are some
of them running on the Danube, where they make
voyage OF EGO miles down the stream in sixty hours
The great advantage ofthe disk engine is. that it
gets full duty out of steam, and thus effects an
important saving ]. is, however, more used on the
continent than in England. A model of this engine
was exhibited at late meeting the United Service
Institution Of London.
M. 3. Larsky, the engineer lately deceased, who
had also acquired reputation as q poet and an
archiaologist made discovery of the greatest i'm
portance in White Russia, discovery brought to
light when his papers examined, after his de-
cease. Being occupied in making a road in that
province he found it necessary to drain off the wa
tiers of the lake into another lake at lower level
and in the of the operation he discovered in
forest several feet below the surface of the SOIL
road paved in the antique Roman and Mexican style,
with traces of stone bridge Of peculiar construc-
ton. In M. Larsky's opinion, 1000 or 5000 years
must have elapsed before the face of the country
could have been transformed to such extent he
Observed and if this supposition be well founded,
this district must have been inhabited before the
time of the Scythians by more civilized nation M.
Larsky discovery will, doubtless. not pass unnotced,
and may lead to important results.
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