The daily union., 1856-01-16
POPULATION GLoEE-The American Almanac
gives the following the total population Of the globe

How THEATRICAL CRITICS SERVED FRAxcE.-Mdlle.
Dupus the actress of the Vaudeville Theatre Paris APP
peared the other day before the Tribunal Of Correctional
Police complain that NJ Jallaber editor of the Theatre
had hbeled her by comparing her. in offensive terms to
Nuremburg doll The Tribunal decided that such style
of criticism allowable and it appeared have
been dictated by personal anmoty it condemned Jala-
bert pay francs fine and 1000 francs damages Also
the of the Judgment in his paper and pay
the expense of inserting it in three other papers of Paris
be chosen by the complainant
TREAT sroRE-We hear lsays the Boston Transcript
that the Hon. Rufus Choate has informed the lecture
mee of the Mercantile Library Association that he has
selected the subject of his lecture in their present
The Last Days of Rogers the Poet The lecture will
probably be delivered late in February and will end the
brilliant course for le55-56
Two young men, residing in Granville Vermont, few
days since traced several bears their den in
the Green mountains While of the hunters stood
guard the other named Robbins sixteen of age
tered the armed with double-barreled pistol and
succeeded in killing thres bears without receiving
himself After this ought TO hear Dragging
from Connecticut about Old Put Young Robbins should
take the old fellows cooked hat and regimentals
Boston Post
Killing three bears with pis,o-shots is certainly
performance worth boas,ing about
QUrEs VICTORIA AND Miss NIGHTIssIE-Tbe Queen has
been pleased to mark her appreciation Of the devo-
ton Of Miss Nightingale by transmitting TO that lady
jewelled of great beauty which may be
decoration and has accompanied 1t with autograph
letter.
LIBERAL saLlnY-The first Presbyterian church Of
New Orleans says the Pcsby has learned the
Of giving beyond Others II may Judge from the
salary they offer for pastors services We understand
that they have made the Rev Dr. ~ L. Rice
Of Louis Missouri with the promise Of $1,000 salary
II he viii become their pastor
ARAxTrR Ae ANsr THE woarp-Mr John Lawrence Bazier
in the Louisville Times offers from $1,000 to $4,000
that he jump five feet further dead level than any
in Kentuckythree feet further than any in the
United Slates-oue foot further than any in the
wordor stand Aat-footed upon the and
leap brick wall fifteen feet high and four thick
CRIpE PusHHmEsr.-A correspondent of the Cncn-
natl (ohio Gazette that there have been FIVE hun
dred murders In Hamilton county, Ohio within the last
fifteen years and that but has been hung there for
murder during all this time Hamilton county is that In
which Cincinnati Is situated.
SUDDEN DEArH-Jssper Cope esq venerable citizen oi
Philadelphia fell dead in Friends Meeting house In tha,
city on Sunday. Mr. Cope born in I175, and was
therefore in his sst year The late Thomas p Cope and
Israel Cope Of Philadephs his elder brothers and
the lives Of the three hare ended almost in The sam,
twelvemonth.
Busnrss ~ yrw oRtr,ss-The Picsyupe Of the 5th in
stant says
In spite Of two holidays two DAYS Of nearly ncessan
rain crowded evee and overloaded presses cotton-buy
ers turned the short time available for business pur
poses good account the sales ohe week having reached
the large figure Of $1,000 bales
THw PasAaE or rHr CssADA-The passage OF the Can.
ada has been Of the boscrous experienced
on the Atlantic She left Liverpool December %, and
since that time the ship has encountered succession
westerly gales and stormy weather without niermson
and times the wind TO hurricane That veteran
officer Captain Lang says he experienced such
continued series Of heavy gales He reports The 29tt
ut in lat 40 So long 40 hurricane commenced At 10
p m, and continued until O'Clock morning Th,
wind blew with terrible violence.
The captain and officers on deck ms wo as the entir,
watch throughout that night under the necessity
lashng themselves TO the Of ship 10 prevent be
ing thrown overheard by the force of the wind and bs
tremendous that swept the vessel The paddle
boxes stove and the smokepipe what damaged
but the gallant ship sustained other injury
passenger by The steamer states that some six q,
eight scscaptsns who on board all expressed IN,
opinion that the hurricane Of the most sever,
which they had ever experienced.
suxmse Up rw stvs--The London correspondent o
The Boston Post thus commence his last letter.
aThc death Of the poet Samuel Rogers and IN. mission
Of Count Eserhavy ST. Peicrsburgh the two prom
in English Of the present week Jenny
Godschmidt has indeed again enraptured audi
Al Exeter Hall prominent the turf has beer
murdered by strychnine administered him BY his ply
third aud fourth volumes Of his History Of England hsv'