Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-14
European It'd Bits.

The progress OF the British steam navy is
wonderful England possesses more marine
steam-power in her royal navy than all the
steam fleets of the world combined could FIR
nish. A few years since, England possessed
only some 1900 horse power; but, on the LIST
of January, 1854, the British navy included
no less than 202 steam vessels of all classes !;
whilst the nominal steam power of machinery
in those ships represented more than that of
$4,000 horses, with reserve of $500 horse
power, available for other royal ships.
Count D. Orsay, hearing an American talk
ing very grandly of Yankee enterprise, pro-
posed to join him in any speculation he might
choose. swell, then" replied the Ameri-
can, 81, Il take you to New York and exhibit
you. Tickets would be sold at auction
The rush to see you would be tremendous
We should instantly make fortune
The regalia of Poland arc mornful sight to
the few travellers who get access to the Kremlin
at Moscow. There are the crowns of Peter
the Grert and his wife, containing nearly H.
600 diamonds and, beside them, the simple
Polish crown of polished gold, with a cross in
the centre; and at hand is seen the Polish
throne Of blue velvet starred over with gold
en- stars.
A letter from Manchester, England says:
"The disciples Of the shave no more movement
seem to be rapidly increasing in our city, for,
90 where we may, on Change, where mer-
chants most do congregate; in our public
halls in church or chapel; in the open street,
there do we meet men, boarded like the Pard,
and as foreign like as it is well possible for
Britshers to be-
Three Polish generals have been received
II I'D box hoo oil
Arsian Pacha, Toufan Pacha. They have
adopted the denominations without abjuring
the Christian faith.
There were coined at the English mint, in
1853, 10, 597 1903 sovereigns, 2,70S, 796 half
sovereigns, no crowns or half-crowns, $780,
$50 forms, 4,256,l 1873 shillings, $685.
$50 sixpences, Is, 03S fourpences, 36, l68 three
pences, 1852 silver twopences, and 1920 sill
yer pence, (of these last two coins the same
number is isued every year, for Maunday-
money, we believe,) l,02l,44o pennies, H.
$50 .Of0 halfpence, l,02S,62S farthings, and
955. 224 halffarthings. The total value of the
coinage of the year was fl2, 1868, 900 the av-
erage Of the previous five years was only s4,-
100000.
In the course Of lecture delivered before
the ROYAL Institution, London, Professor Ow-
EN- nOC1ceO Lne ptCuAluA pAVfiplVA III Ouo bpc-
cies of fish for capturing its prey by means of
an apparatus attached to the upper jaw, re-
sembling the tackle Of an angler. A project
ing bone acts as the fishing rod, and from it
there depends bright and red substance, that
serves the purpose Of the bait. The fish, hay
ing its body buried in the sand, projects this
apDaratus, and the smaller fishes that seize
hold Of the bait are instantly transferred into
Ire omen mouth,
The old Anglophobia of the French has
given place to yeritable Auglomania. The
French newspapers, with one or two insignif-
cant exceptions, sing the praises of Old Eng
land: the alliance Of Old England is the sheet
anchor of French policy in the eyes of the
ablest statesmen of the day; and the great
mass of the people speak with sparkling eyes
and exulting hearts, of the tremendous cast-
cation which valiant France and valiant Eng
land are about to infict on the barbarian Co.'S
sacks.
The Peruvian government recently ordered
a measurement Of the guano Of the Chincha
Islands. The following result has been given:
That the island situated at the north contains
4. IS9, AT; the centre island, 2,5o5,94S; the
south island, 5,6SO,676; or total of l2,S79,-
100 tons.