The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-11-14
EOreiQn Items.

| The potato crop is exceedingly abundant. The
yield of apples and pears is also satisfactory AS
to the vine bearing districts, the wine win be good
| though the yield is scarcely an average.
| The whole of the British Batteries at the mouth
| of the Tyne are being strongly fortified A half.
moon battery will be erected at the end of the Cas-.
tie cliffs; and the Spanish battery, which has been
in existence since the time of the Spanish Armada.
| is being reconstructed.
The Empress of Russia has received from Nav
18th to August 9th, 1855, in private gifts for the
| wounded OF Sebastopol, sum of LOST, ,12Sf and
600 cases of lint, old linen &c.
The King of Belgium has just created eighteen
of the most distinguished physicians of his king
dom knights of the Order of Leopold.
An extraordinary plague of flies has lately pre-
vailed in parts of Gloucestershire, England. 1t
was first detected Saturday. 29th ult when
the air was observed to be filled with the black
winged aphis-a class OF insect very destructive to
the undershoots of in the spring but which is
seldom found in force late in the year.
The Russian government, in order to excite the
religious zeal of the people, has caused to be con-
structed near Moscow an exact imitation of the
Holy Places at Jerusalem The convent of Vosk.
reseenskoe is made 10 resemble exactly tho church
of the Holy Sepulchre. and the sanctuaries chap
els and tombs have precisely the same dimensions,
color and ornaments as those at Jerusalem.
The Emperor of Russia has ordered that the rail
way from St. Petersburg Moscow shall be hence
forward called the Nicholas Railway in honor of
the late Gar.
Seven hundred Polish emigrants arrived lately
at Berlin on their way to Texas.
The cholera had ceased at Bologna, Italy as an
epidemic The total number of deaths in the town
and province, containing population of $780, coo
souls is 81, from the 29th of May to the 30th OF
August
In Dublin, Ireland, committee of tho town
council was appointed TO consider the expediency
of selling off all the estates the property Of the
poration. The attempt is regarded as practical
movement to e1tinguish the metropolitan munich
pal body.
One of the Galway Qreland) papers mentions
that the stream of emigration from that district has
subsidized, at least temporarily. Preparations for
departure however, are being made by many OF
the peasantry, who it seems speculate on being
enabled to defray the cost Of their passage out OF
| the high wages they have been paid during the
present harvest In the neighborhood of Ballinas.
loe the scarcity of hands sill the subject OF
| complaint and hundreds of the large proprietors
were anxious to obtain them at an increased pre-
MUM.
The 25th anniversary of the independence of Bel
| gium has been celebrated by three days rejoicing
| at Brussels.
There were lately in the United Kingdom un
der orders for embarkation for the Crimea no few
than 5000 disciplined men. In addition to the
above upwards of 1000 infantry will proceed from
| Gibraltar, Malta, the Ionian Islands and the Pa
raus.
The Austrian government has seized on the pro.
perty possessed in Lombandy by the religious cor
porations suppressed in Piedmont.