The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1858-11-25
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away his lumber, and manning every yard and
gun. Accordingly Lord Mas, the Irish Seere-
tary, is going to Madras as Governor, and Mr.
Seymour Fitzgerald will succeed him. There
will probably be other changes, but these are
said to be determined on Even if the worst
should happen the present Government will make
desperate effort to dissolve before it resign
power, and as the House is only in it's second
year, the threat viii not be without its effect.
Sir William Magnay, BART, who was Lord
Mayor of London in 1881 will appear before
the Tnsolyent Debtors Court, Portugal-street.
for the purpose of obtaining release from his
pecuniary liabilities. Sir William Magnay was
created baronet Immediately after the Queens
visit to the city, on the opening IF the ROYAL
ExchaH3e
The first edition of Mr.. Carlyle'S work, Fred
erick the Great, is exhausted, and new edition
is promised early next month
Mr.. S. c. Hall is about to deliver two lectures
on The Authors ofthe Age n-menaories, he
terms them-deriyed from personal acquaintance
and recollection. Mr.. Hall opens with Hannah
More and Lady Morgan, and concludes with
Theodore Hook and Tom Hood
Sir William Reid, well known as the author
OF valuable works ON the Laws of Hurricanes
and the Theory of Storms, died in London on
the 3lst of October, at the age of 81.
The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation
Company Galway line) have contracted for
steamship which viii be guaranteed to cross the
Atlantic in FIVE days frcm port to port.
The Limerick people have wisely determined
since their interview with Mr. Cunnard, to aban-
don the attempt establish steam communication
with America.
The Emperor and Empress left Paris Oh the
lst for Compeigne, where the court viii remain
till the end of the month
Lord Clarendon and Lord Palmerston are ex-
pected on visit to the Court at Compeigne
1t is authoritatfyely stated that Napoleon III
is taking steps to carry into execution farorite
plan of Napoleon I, for laying up stores of corn,
after the manner of the Pharoahs, in every large
town, during plentiful years, in order to provide
against years of scarcity. The protectionists
like this plan. which they think will secure them
altogether against foreign importatiors.
From table of statistics published in the Pa
t,-ie, we find that the number of printing Offices
in France is but 1881 These employ $500
compositors, 5000 pressmen, and 900 correctors
and overseers. The produce of the whole isesti-
mated at FIVE millions of dollars
A mansion has been hired at Toulon for the
winter sojourn of the Grand Duke Constantine
of Russia, who is coming to spend two or three
months on Mediterranean shores. Villafranca,
of course and probably Turin. viii receive an
early visit; and it is said that he viii make ex-
cursions to the isle of Sardinia, to Corsica, and
probably to Algiers.
A French provincial paper, the Revue de la
Meuse, has been suspended. and its editor SEN
fenced to d months imprisonment. The CON-
plant of the authorities against him was that he
had inserted in his Journal which protested to be
purely of literary character, "artieles upon po-
litieal topics and social economy"
RAcHEL's ToMB.-The approach of the I'd of
November, the day devoted by the Catholic
religion to the memory of the dead, occasions
great activity in the different cemeteries at Paris
in order to have the tombs in course of erection
completed by that day. Amongst those which
have been recently terminated is that Of Mdle
Rachel, at Pere-la- Chaise. 1t is on the right on
entering the part of the ground appropriated to
the Israelites. 1t is small chapel in the Greek
style, over the door of which the word = Rachel
is carved, with two crowns and diadem There
are also two corbeiIes in stone, highly polished.
and filed with flowers.
The appointment of General BONN, to the
Ministry of Warts an evidence ofthe anti Russian
feeling Of the Regent. At the time Of the Cri-
mean war the General was one of the supporters
of an alliance with England and France against
Russia, aud he fell into disgrace in consequence.
Discovery OF Rock SALT IN PRUssIA.-A
discovery of the utmost Importance for the trade
of Prussia and the countries on the Baltia gener-
ally has lately been made at place called Sass
furt, near Stettin consisting of an inexhaustible
bed pure rock salt A small cargo has been
sent this summer to Scotland to be used in sailing
herring and the result of the experiment has
proved in every way satisfactory, the quality
being considered even superior to the Liverpool
rock salt.
Considerable alarm has been caused in the COM
mercial world by the discovery that notes of the
Bank of Vienna, for one hundred forms each,
have been -produced, by means of photography,
with such exactness that it was very difficult to
detect thefase from the true.