The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1861-02-14
Foreign Items.

L,SI iiH' Rrcts1Lr nrtS 4oto in Fleet
acre, p''
Pfru ~ CovING INTO THE wo,,c a ,s o,x
| l1n grower 10, 600 bales of her cotton b.v.
| lNst teen scat across the Istmus, most of II In
| Europe.
IHE FuTu NoLuMr or MAcAULFY's us.
ToEr, recently earounccd will bo much brief.
or than any OF the preceding volumes--includ-
| ing only four or five chapters.
1uERU ARE 5000 MILES Of canal In Great
brtain. representing capital Of $500, ,OOO, ,OOo
'nd since the adoption Of steam as propsling
aE,nt, The traffic has increased last year 25, ,004
tons.
AN"ItiCAr RErURs, published Al 81. re-
tcr.uUrs slows that the nuinLer Of periodicals.
u Eu.'ri last year, (exCluivo Of thoss Of Po-
land, and the Grand Duchy Of Finland), was
~ Ia more than in 1859.
rHc LAST RrroRT Of tho head Of the English
Post Cilcc Department, states that moro thaa
II 600 letters were posted during the year 1859.
without any address at all, while II Is added,
900 arc daily posted at tho principal Office in
London, unscaled."
AsUCCrSSTuL TRIAL Of new invention foe
heating railway carriages with hot tubes has
been made between Paris and Montargis,
France. liya most ingenious contrivance .
l''I'"U ,i 'ur waste steam thrown of after
i inlruduc'd into u hcNiblc tube, which ex-
t,t IL tlrrugN' at The train, aud ia 80 twisted
hat every iHsstugDr may Iu' lis rtct upon il.
The benefits of th" arrangement are thus dis
uihnt"h om"I . nll the various classes VI tray
clcts.
TIIE IEEN, u rosT urrlcg is about 10 adopt
for the d,hycty Of city lcttot, tho system u
ltmo.phcrlc pressure through long cylinders.
Tho CNhausiing machine will Ic placed in tho
central office, and the pipes will 90 Ia all tho
railway stations and The different principal
oi'i"cs in the city. Packages will thus bs sent
I" the different quarters instantancously,
where they will I've taken up for distribution.
Hua thus letters may arrive at their destina-
liun IN half an hour after they aro written,
instead of IN two or thrco hours as now.
WIN JrtHrz oCCrrtrp TuI Crr or
VI NiCo, ho sent an OficoI ard flo of men 70
arrest tho editor II one Of the bilterest Reac-
tUnar. journals in tho capital. The editor de-
clincd being arrc.tod. and inflicted severe
wound uron the fliccr whcrcupon his oxAspar-
atcd soldiers rushed upon tho journalist and
dispatched hiT--, martyr to the liberty Of the
pt"ss.
foiirtCM fErACUlrd.--A pricst, named
CnSoNr, whU, for sey raj Sundays. made polit-
hnl alusions In his sermons, comparing yIo-
i"n EMAnutL to lIrEoD, and King FEAsots
H. to CUHIST In the massacre OF the In
roCenis, was waited upon by an officer and
half dozen carhineers Who, In muffisd
clcnks, had been listening very deyoutly 70
his seImon, and Conducted frtm tho church
to prison f'w SlLlws ago in Ntplo.
SINrtNCE \ DAy.-Therc Is now an old maa
~ M almhouse, IN Bristol, England, who states
that FOR sixty years he spsnt siNpence a day in
drrk, but was never intoxicated. A gentle
niGn who heard this statement, was somewhat
curious to ascertain how mach this ixponcs .
day put by every year, at per cent, com
pound interest would amount to In sixty
years. Irking out his pencil, hs began to CAL
culatc-rutiing down tho first wears savings
(jG5 sixpcEces) ~ ~. 3D., bc added the inter-
cot, ~. 3D., and thus went on, year by year,
until lac found, that in tho sixtisth year ths
siyrcncc day reached tho startling sun u
e., 225 los. Nd. Judge Of tho old mans sur
piitc when told, that had he saved his sixpsnos
day, and allowed 1t to accumulate at con.
p,una Interest, he might now have boon worth
the above noble sum 30 that, instead Of taking
refuge in an almshouse, hs might have com
forted himself with u house Of his own, costiag
eco, and ilfty acres of land, worth ESQ q
acre, and hayo left the same as legacy among
Liz children and grandchldren. .-BriksA Ws~k.
man.