, 1864-06-19

The onslaught hy Mr.. Babbage on street
organs Is meeting With great support In Lon
don aud It is'pSoposed to establish soci-
ety to "put thom down."
The hunting grounds In Scotland will
this fall oter more spurt--to TIE 7iea vao
can afford TO indulge in it-than ioF; ysar4
previously. Grouse, pheasants, partridges
snd leyeretta arc all very abundant
A French and English International
.tea11 ploughins r5atch took place recently
at Roannc. An English machine won the
ttet prize, and French the second and
1T is proposed to build now postot1ce
at tLfvtrFool-thrat hundred thousand mora
ltttcrs passing through the city now than
was the case eight 5e@rs ago.
-London1ss 60 to the EPSON races In NIL
sorts Of vehicles, including great pleasure
yane. A party of visitors we're returning A.
ter the recent Derby In one of these v7ns,
when lighted cigar fell among tho 1ooso
straw 1T the bottom Of the vehicle, and
blaze sprung up, setting fire to the curtains
and awning so quickly, that two women Of
could get out.
= Tie map Of the world bJ Leonardo du
Vinci has been discovered among the royal
collections at Windsor.
The japanese ambassadors It Paris are
ledged at tho Grand Hotel, and u they keep
4cvo1ite occupation in the evening Is to pro-
.neaade round their snite Of rooms and taks
turn In the balcony.
"A postman In the west of England h.s
ridden the sama pony for eighteen years,
and 1la estimates that In this time man and
horst have travelled etstJ-six thousand one
hundred and sixty miles-whfch Ia much
over twice the distance around ths world.
The people OF Naples have been sending
addresses and giving sercaades to the Duke
OF Sutherland, who IL in their city, for his
Courtesy to Gar.ba1df. From Gibraltar on
| the Sd Of May the Italian hero WToto this
letter:
| having read in the london journals that yoa
/ md your friends have formed the generous fu:en.
ton to open q subscription IN tavoT Of myself aad
my children, must lot you know that It II I'm.
possible tor me 10 acccptit. 1t is, however, but
one aemsnd the more On the gzatisude which l
owe to yoa and TO yaar nob1s friends for 10 much
kindnsss. Devosedly JouEs,
| To tho Duke Of Sutherland.
| "A French jury recently gave In verdict
| the benefit Of ''extenuating circumstances
| to horrible wretch who murdered his own
mother by holding her head DOM in = dung
| heap until she Nas dead.
| At recent meeting OF the London NJ.
mismatic Society some notes of tho nav
fractional currency of the United States o
America were exhibited, ~ well as soms
shin -plasters or tradesmen's cardboard
tickets ISSUED at New York, and represent
ise one and two cents respectively.
-Lo Yerfier, the French astronomer, Il
about to establish In Paris, under the patron
age OF the Emperor, an Astronomical ant
Metereo illogical Association.
AT q dog show recently held 1t the Agri
cultural Hail, Islington (London), wus az
hibited canine specimen valued by 1t!
owner at Il 500.
The Prince Of Wales WAS an exhibitor /,
the late Islington dog show, aud carried OF
the first prize for Sewfon ndlands By hi
black dog Cabot. Some Of the dogs exhib
tied by the Prince had baon raised By tn
late Princu Consort-
| That portion OF tho Canpana Museum
acquired BY tile French Government has beel
placed in the new hall Of the Louvre, Gale,
The ts3iusec Napoleon Ill"
The famons old MeFgus or dead-houso a
Paris, which has figured In so many novel
snd been visited By 50 many thousand tou1
lists, has been derol!ahed' and u new Oh
bailt INN nsdiately behind tho Cathedral Q
Eotrc Dame. Hers are preserved the clothe
Of the unfortunate dead, waiting ono yea
!: for recognition In one room, Lighted in th
} most ehestiVe manner, are twelve alAbs q
black marble, on which .ars laid tbs b odie
recently found; and In the next apartmon
arc fourteen slabs for bodies decompose
bcyonu recognition; and water falIs contln
uonsly On the corpses. >
"a curious story OF terrcstria1 rcftacttoI
is published iu Galiguani. It Seems tha
lately roma Portuguese philosopher. were o.
the peak of Teue1ifie. when they gaw on til
horizon ynst masses ofemountaiQa. Tn
: Archipelago Of tha Canary Islands was =
! their feet, and the distant mountains mus
} therefore belong TO sona other continent
At last one Of the tourists, who had been /
J this country. recognized the Alleghan
| | Mountains, really two Thousand five hur
dred miles distant, a. those on tho horizon
Tho spectacle was in this case attributed t
singular effect Of ntr1za.' Tho author {
The story 10 not the original Baron Mur
chnusen.