Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-15
FOREIGN ITEMS.

In some Of the numbers Of Galignanrs Mes
senger, forwarded to Scottish gentleman who
resided part Of last year Mt st. Potersburgh,
whole columns were cut out bodily, and
throughout the paper from articles of various
kinds, paragraphs, and even single sentences,
were carefully elaborated with pumiccstoue,
the surface Of the print being entirely rubbed
of, and rough blanks left in the columns,
Mr.. Pcase, one Of the deputation Of the
Friends to the Gar, has been lecturing in Eng
land upon tho objects Of the mission He said,
that while he was in St Pctersburgh, the ter
riblc slaughter Of Sinope was performed at the
theatres every night Hehad brought with him
battered portion OF an ,llush atcd paper, which
had been mutilatcd in its passage through the
post Office, and all the articles which We're not
considered by the authorities to be resp ctable
were cut away. He ascribed the little or no
progress which Russia made in civilization to
the lettering OF the press in that country. He
believed that the Gear was kind and temperate.
His own people were devoted to him
It is said, that upon the average sixteen men
in every troop Of the English army destined
for Turkey were married; consequently, the
$4,000 men would leave behind 2,5O0 wives,
and between 5000 and 5000 children.
The parents of an existing member Of Par
lament IA fair speakcr) were both deaf and
dumb.
Songs, ridiculing Nicholas and all the Rus
slams, sanctioned by the Minister Of the Inte-
rior, are oil the rage in the streets OF Paris
just now.
Official portraits of the Emperor and En-
press of the French have been painted by Win
terhalter, TO serve aa models from which all
the copies required for public establishments,
and for the various French embassies abroad,
are to be taken. These two pictures arc now
in tho Louvre, and are said to be excellent
likencsses.
Madame Goldschmidt is now singing in Her-
lin, and shortly goes to Vienna, where she will
remain two months and during that time give
several concerts. She will then probably, il
not hindered by tho war; 90 to Sweden, and
pass part Of the autumn in England.
Jtresults from some experiments recently made
ut Rrest with the terrible boulets asphi9iaas that
have been 80 much talked Of that they may,
under certain circumstances, DO very danger
Gus to tho troops using them, as we'll as to the
enemy. A building containing a number Of
cats, dogs, and other animals was fired at,
and, on inspection, all Of them were found to
be dead from asphyxia bnt il happened that
the shots werc fred against the wind, asd, al
though tho distance was great, the poisonous
vapor was rolled back with such effect that
several Of tho artlIerymen were nearly chcked,
and some Of them tainted
A report ia current ia England, that NJ
Mahzini is preparing to show himself among
his partisans in Italy.
A company is about starting at Paris, to run
pleasure boats between Narcotics and Con-
stantinople, the chargo to be sixty dollars.
Mr. Cheshire, IN his Results Of fks' Census
thus illustrates the vast size Of the metropolis
az England "London extends over an area Of
rs, 02S acres and tho number Of It's inhabitnnts,
rapidly increasing, was 2,362, ss6 ON the day
of the last censusn