The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-11

water. The Rhone continued to rise. In many parts
the waters were OVERLOOKING the qusys on the hight
bank, and along the Quai de Retz all circulation
cut Oh. The Place des Cordeliers and the Rues
Claudia ard Stella were complete lakes. Beams Of
wood and materials of all kinds were brought down
by the torrents. The Moniteur de Ia Cote dor
states that the waters of the Brenne and the Arma
con flooded the plains Of Laumes, Athie, Viserny
and Genay.
The Cosyiere Laliano of the 18th of May states
that it is seriously in contemplation to undertake
tensive dredging operations on the Danube, and to
deepen the bed OF that river. The works Will COM
mence en- the part between Presburg and Como.
An English parliamentary paper on Loan Socie-
ties shows that the amount actually advanced and
paid by depositors or shareholders in England and
Wales, last year, was s220 337 the sums in borrow
ers' hands at the close of the year, f32s,47l.
An ukase of the late Emperor Nicholas of RuSsis >,
issued in 1850 requiring the Jews in the western
governments of the empire to doh the long. s6irted
garments, and wear coats of Western brevity is now
being carried out with all vgor and severity in
Wilma. Kowno, Grodno and Minsk. Another por-
ton OF the same ukase requires Jewesses to wear
their own hair, and discontinue the use of artificial
topknots.
The communication between st. Petersburg and
Cropstadt by steamboat Is not vet re-opened: row
boats ply already between Oranienbaum and the
fortress. The ice has commenced shifting on Lake
Ladcea, end the effects of it commence1 showing
themselves in st. Petersburg on the 10th Of May.
The fatness Of trade still continues in St. Peters
burg.
The London Times, of May II, says:-SOme Of
the Calcutta and Bombay papers brought by the
last mail state distinctly that orders have been sent
ont to India for the annexation of Hyderabad, in
the Deccan, as soon as the Dude arrangements are
complete. 1t is also stated with much confidence
in the Bombay papers that the preliminary steps
have already been taken towards the ABSORPTION of
Raroda. We are authorised to state that no such
measure has ever been ordered, or even contem-
plated.
The abolition of the stamp duties on British news-
papers, ard the substitution OF @ postage charge,
have caused decrease of about one fourth in the
number OF newspapers posted. There are still about
seventyone millions of newspapers per annum post
ed, or 200 GOO per day. OF these much the larger
proportion bear the impressed stamp.
The Taqai ha,iie, the official journal of the Per-
sian government, contains singular article, being
an appeal to the two great sects of Islam tue Sun
mites (Turks) and shiites Persans), exhorting
them TO reconciliation and union SO that there NAV
be but one great Mussulman people.
The committee of the English House Of Lords IN
the appellate jurisdiction recommends the creation
of peers for life, for the purpose Of forming Court
OF Appeal TO st during the legal year. Two Of these
life peers or two OF the legal peers to DO deputy
Speakers OF the House, with salary of f6 900 each.
The report is the unanimous recommendation of the
committee.
1t is asserted that the French and Austrian g,vern-
ments have agreed to prolong the occupation of the
Papal dominions, but that the two great Catholic
powers have frankly stated to the Papal government
that things cannot be allowed to remain in their
present state.
The governments of France and Austria have
addressed circulars to their agents at the Italian
courts stating that these Powers will not suffer any
anarchical movements in Italy.
BY departure from its usual practice, which con-
signs to urnoted obscurity foreign observations on
Roman affairs, portion Of Lord PalmerstOns speech
on Italy has been reproduced in the official journal
Of Rome. This, it is said, has been done at the
express command Of the Pope.
communication from st. Petersburg states that
h.l A. q
the city authorities which shows that the receipts
for the year were l978,635 silver roubles and the
expenses ], 1888, $50 ditto.
The first reports OF Colonel Bourgeois, of the
Swiss federal army, on the situation of Tessino,
provement in the state of the public mind, which
had been much excited by the judgment of the SUI
peror tribunal relative to the political assassination
Of Degiorgi.
Under the appeation of LIE Lixviateur. COM
paDy has been started in Paris under the auspices Of
NJ. Leiebvte Durute to remedy what they call one
Of the most crying evils which the civilized portion
OF the community labor under. The nymphs of
the tub in Paris are addicted to treat the linen Of
their customers with dsrespect perfectly painful.
Shirt fronts instead Of being treated with that deli
cate solcitude which they are entitled to. are
danes, into things of ''shreds and patches" NJ. Ie-
| febre Duru1e and his associates have taken pity
on the victims of this method of cleansing, and the
company they have founded will undertake The
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xiviation-of linen, &c on economic PRINCIPLES.
An audacious robbery was lately committed in
Spaina picture OF the Assumption, generally ascrb-
ed to Murlo, was taken from the high altar OF the
church OF Mendiguren near Vittoria.
The Russian vessels which had been sunk at the
entrance OF the harbor of Sebastopol are very UGH
injured by their submersion owing to their having
been built Of fir instead of oak.
Delegates from all the railway companies in Ger
many will assemble In conference ut Frankfort on
the 2lst Of July next.
secret society, called the Community of St.
John, and formed for religious purposes, has lust
been discovered at Vienna, and eighty persons have
leen arrested.
In Rome orders have been given to resume recruit
ing for the two foreign regiments in the service Of
the Holy See and to increase the effective of the ma
tive troops. The two foreign regiments at present
consist OF from $500 to 5000 men, One of the bat
talions is in garrison at Rome
The arrest of NJ. Yon (writes the Paris CORES
p0ndent of lie N0rd, former commissary of police
to the Legislative Assembly. and devoted to General
ChaDgarnier, is spoken Of. At the time of the
Generals arrest some very curious reports of NJ. Yon
were found. Since the I'd December, 1851 the ex-
commissary has not been employed,
On May 81, party of Mormons comprising
several families, in all l52 men, women and children,
left London by the railway for Liverpool there to
embark, with other parties from different parts of
the country for Boston, whence they will proceed to
the promised land.
The Piedmontese Chamber Of Deputies has COM
menced the discussion Of the budget Of the Minister
of the Interior amounting to n 4S9 3safr, reduced
by the committee to 1888 526fr.
The Grand Duke Of Tuscany has positively re-
fused to conclude the Concordat so anxiously in
sisted upon by the Holy See.
The spring fleet from the north of Scotland for
Canada has taken out above 900 passengers to
| Canada this season. Most of them are agricultural
| laborers and small farmers.
The preamble to the budget presented to the Gem
era Diet of Denmark states that the last war in the
Duches cost the treasury more than 60 1000 900 rx
dollars, and that the pubic expenses now amount to
22,7500O0 rx dollars, being more by 100000 than
they were ten years ago.
The Madrid Gazette contains royal DEGREES re.
lieving Marshal ODonne from the presidency Of
the Council which he held ad interim, owing to the
visit of the Duke de la Victoria to Saragossa, The
duke immediately after his arrival had an audience
Of the Queen, to give an accoun OF his journey.