Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-24

BoXWOod i6 sold 20 the WoOO-engraVers
in London at g penny the square inch.
Up to the end Of last year there were
II, ,0CO miles of telegraph lines and 144
telegraph stations in India.
The freedom Of the wick Of a lamp fed
with petroleum, from ehsrring, is said to
be indicative of its purity and the goodness
Of the oil.
Characters given to servants by their
employers are held in England to be priv
ileeed, and no action for damages lies
thereon, except in case Of statements made
knowingly to be false and malicious.
The Bank of England does not retain all
its own specie at its own pleasure. On the
Sth of September last it received e38,000
on deposit, and the same day lost 149,6S0
sovereigns, which were shipped to Brazil
to pay balances and buy coffee.
A French journal says that there are, on
an average, 600 persons drowned every
year in Paris; and that from $4,000 to
$4,000 French seamen have persisted by
shipHreck within the last thirty years.
The censervator of the library at Riga
has published at Brussels o pamphlet en-
titled "Ls Testament de Pierre le Grand"
and the object of which is to prove that the
celebrated will of the Gar Peter is only an
spocryphal document drawn up by order
Of Napoleon I. in 1872. The author Of the
pamphlet states positively that it was only
in 1886 that the will was published for the
first time under the form Of an authentic
document, in work by NJ. Gaillardet.
The prosecution of prisoners, in the sew
eral counties o EDglsnd and Wales, the
last year, cost the government 1858, ,545,
and no wonder, when man was recently
convicted at Wellington for stealing half
penny, and poor hungry woman kept in
jail for three weeks for picking up raw
turnip in a field to feed starving and
sick child.
There are forty-nine Trustees of the
British Museum, Of whom twenty-four are
such ez o6feio. Nine are representatives. Of
the principal donors, such as Sloane, Cot
ton, Harley. The Queen appoints one, and
fifteen are elected. The Lord Chancellor,
Speaker of the House Of Commons, the
two Arohbishops, and Chancellor of the
Exohequer, are trustees er offeio. A COM
mittee manages the business, and Mr.. An
thony Psnizzi is principal librarian and
secretary.
The Unila Italiana" ofAIilan publishes
9 stirring appeal from the Venetian Com
mitiee Of Action to the Itslisns of Venetia,
dated the 18th of September. It calls on
Itslians to prepare for deeds, to have. but
one idea -deliverance-but one password
Italy, and to procure arms, ammunition,
and everything necessary for commencing
q struggle. The conspiracy, it says, must
be permanent and continuous; the duty of
the Venetians is to maintain it. whilst that
Of the Committee Of Action is to hasten the
moment and to give the signal.
Professor Helmholz regards the cocblea,
as apart of the ear is termed, as the spe-
cisl organ for transmitting musical sounds
to the nerves.
A newspaper has been established at
Galway called the United Irishman and
American. 1t displays at its head the
Irish and American flags. Its chief points
are tho advantages Of emigration and the
probability Of war with England
An English prOcule ess was recently con-
Ticted and punished for having been in
the habit Of whipping with birth rods Ia
AbNOEANE BuElAbu Oh COTTeCLlOnl
the unfortunate women who were in her
bad service. For this purpose they were
stripped naked and lied TO a machine in
her dwelling. 1t turns out that some of
her customers assisted at these spectacles,
and warrants were issued for their ar
rest Itappears that some of the offend
ing parties were "persons of position in
society, one being the nephew of duke,
and another in a still more exalted posi-
tion.H Their town residences and county
seats were entered by the officers of JUS |
tioe 70 arrest them, but the culprits getting |
wind Of the movement fed to the conti- |
nent English high life is getting very |
low r.I
The Cursgh ofKildare is fertile grassy |
plain, covering an area Ofabout five thous- |
and acres, serving as q raee-course, a graz |
ing place forcattle, and camp and pa
Sade ground for soldiers, uniting the uses
ef New Market and Aldershott, and sur |
passing them both In beauty.
The gunbosts-or "hornets," as they
were playfully called-which were so hur-
riedly put together during the Crimesn |
War, are rapidly disappearing from the /
British Navy List. Eight more Of these
craft-which, if not rotten, are nova
days useless, except for service as dispatch
Ooats-hsve just been ordered to be brok- 4
IN up. Three six-gun steam vessels, enc
'f which, the Cyclops, was the first frig-
steamer constructed for the navy,
md was once regarded with great admirs-
ion and curiosity, have also ceased to be-
ong to the royal navy, the Admiralty hAV-
ng succeeded In finding purchaser for
hem.