Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-01-28
Gleanings from European Journals.

The Electric Telegraph is now extended to
Osborne, the marine residence of her Majesty
in the Isle OF Wight, and telegraphic messages
to and from London and Osborne are transmitted
whenever necessary.
tits understood thata bill is to be introduced,
at the meeting of Parliament, with view to
throw open the coasting trade to foreign ships,
and thus disposing of this "last rag of protec-
ton.
A firm near Bristol has just received an order
for twelve iron chapels to be exported to Austria
liza by the Roman Catholics of England.
The works at Dover castle and citadel, which
have been in progress throughout the summer
and autumn, are still going forward, and by
July next will, it is said be ready for the ac-
commodation of 500 additional troops. The ex-
terror of each fortress is also undergoing extern
sive repairs and renovations, so as to give Dover
the strength to which its frontier position en-
titles it.
Hudson, the Railway King, has cleared e4O,-
600 by the sale of his Newly Park Estates.
The Dublin Committee charged with the con-
sideration of the best form of testimonial to be
presented to Mr.. Dargan, have recommended the
erection of a permanent building for the exhibit
ton of works of Industry and Art, under the
name of the Dargan Institute. The building
recently occupied by the exhibition was opened
on the 10th ult., as winter garden.
Maynooth College has the best galvanic ap
paratus in Europe. 1t has olso the most power
full galyanic battery and the best means of ex-
hibiting the heating, Illuminating, decomposing,
and magnetic powers of powerful battery.
The Palace of Industry in Paris is progressing
1t will be about 300 feet long, which is not quite
half the length of the London Crystal Palace {;
but it will be wide, and about 100 feet high in
<ho %bo no nf md Ol0
There will be also gallery.
A statue of General Bernard, the faithful
follower of Napoleon in exile to st. Helena, has
lately been cast in bronze, and exhibited in front
of the Louvre prior to its transportation to its
destined place in provincial city. The statue
is said to be a fine work of art. 1t is colossal,
and represents the General in the act of deliver
ing the will and sword of Napoleon, brought
back from st. Helena.
LIE Verrier, the astronomer, in paper which
he recently read before the Paris Academy of
Science, suggests that we may expect the dis
covery of a prodigious number of small planets.
A French provincial paper having published
a statement that Lord Brougham had retired
from public life, and fixed his residence at Can
mes to take care Of broken constitution, DR..
SIEVE, the physician of the family, replies that
Lord Brougham never enjoyed more perfect
health for the twenty years during which he has
visited that portion of France.
LOVE SoMETHINa.-That man alone is happy
who has something to love, truly and sincerely.
If he has no wife or children, like Cowper, he
may be attached to dumb creature bird or
a dog. James Montgomery, the poet, has lived
for years, with no other companion than a cat
Our attachments are strong-and we are so con-
stituted, that our affections are drawn out upon
something. A favorite tree or fower-or de-
votion to some particular service, may yield US
exquisite pleasure. Few men who have some
object to love, turn out to be depraved and
wretched. They who have nothing to love, are
often outcasts from society and die miserably at
last .l|l..~-