, 1865-08-24

walls Of the palace, viii b. placed the boilers
| Of the steam engines for v3king the machines
Rds the gea, te s s fs esefs =, a,s i aet e
bulldinE."- :. =:
STRAIN on Counox RoAps.Ifhe new act
for regulating locomjtives On tuInPikn md
other roads in great B13shtn- VIII come mlo
operation on the first Of September. Three
persons arc to work q neomottTc, and one 70
pFeeede It On foot ra fnnnite len I.d ~ rpe s,n
lie highway locomotive Is not to proceed at
| arcatcr spcsd than four miles an hour, and
in q city, 5own, or village at not more than
ITO 1niiss an hour. Tie act Is only to contin-
ueir force for two years, and nay be regard
| public tloYoughfasce, both In the metropolis
| DAxoRous I;Ro;sAur1css.-Tne Last Euro
| Fean maI brings an account Of .. startling
balloon accident, which recently occurred IN
Ireland. A, Mr. Cogswell, accompanied By
BT scmc mcaas The vslyc became disarranSed
and Wonld not work properly. peEaous de.
scent was the consequence. Eight of the pas.
seDgers manageable escape from the cNz, but
not without seEsrc iniuaes. Before the re-
naming Two could land the balloon again as
csnded and had 1ot sine been heard of.
- a. NEW, FRENCH ~GA1ERT.-A Gallery or
French Pictures las Just been opened IN the
Louvre, ut, Paris comprising works By the
secondary mastea Of the fourteenth, fifteenth
and sixteenth cuturics Of; the Burgnndian
school, together with Ficsurfs by Lesucnr,,
Simon Vouet, B,n Borlogne, j. Vernet, hu-
bert Robert, Caanoys, end Others. The new
gallery beuu8 thu nsale Of Eustachc Lcsueur.
NATIONAL PorrHAIT. .ExH1B1T1DN--A Nj
tsonaI Portrait Exhibition Is TO be held next
year In Englasd. The Earl Of Derby, with
whom the 7dta appears 10 bRTe originated,
u hAr - af f11rU
though by Interior or unknown artists, or
" portralts by eminent artists, though of OBJ
scuIG. or unknown indiytduals.'
New lScuRAroR-Thct IS also u new
patent Incubator on view, which decidedly
ec1ipsea The poor old Eecaleobion, once Of
Leicester squire. It hatchee au kinds Of eggs
--goose, duck, guinea hen, pheasant and par
tridge-into young of tho respective Kinda
very successfully. The apparatus Is neither
complicated nor expensive, and the proprietor
fowl ready for the table, price one shilling.
An IAAESsE Roor.-Thc building Netos
states that the largp roof which covers the
Imperial Riding School, Moscow, hitherto tho
largest in the world, Is aruut to take It's posi-
tion as second on tho lst, as It Ia Intended to
cover the new London terminus Of the Mid
spa Kollwny Company WITH scnr Eroqg1Eoa 2 Go
wider tllau tho Moscow roof.
MUSICAL =.
A London paper states TINT Madame Parepa
Is On the eFu OF her departure for America, on
professional tour through the United States
"A new opera By Hn}evy,, entitled "Noah,'
is said to have been found among the pos
thumons papers Of tsaL poser-Prince
Metternich hns written the music for ballet
-MadIlc- AlcLlna Patti has been engaged for
ten performances at the Phrlfano Theatre in
Florence. This will be the first time she has
sung on the italian stagc-Itallan opera has
been abandoned in Moscow. Tho deficit this
year has been 2e0, 900 ronblea-The King Of
violinist Becker, who dedicated to him
morceau dc econcert-Tha celebrated composer
Llszt, uov the Able Llszt, has arrived in
Paris, on visit to his aged mother.
RUSSIAN ISDusTIs1A Al lExulB1rlos.--On the
18th Of fJune an industrial exposition had been
opened at Moscow, in the building where the
nobility meets, and which had been enlarged
for tho occasion by means Of some additional
constructions. The appearance OF tho goods
offered for examination haa been pretty satts-
lletory, and snpel ior 10 what the state Of euf
rerin& In which Russian industry has been
placed for several gears had caused sotne peo-
pie to expect. At first sight, what most
strikes the visitor, ore cloth and ali ~colen
tissues. These goods come, for beauty and
cloth, aud it Ia undeniable that the Russians
have made great strides in this kind Of
manufacture. SILK goods; on the contrary,
appear to he what they wrrc ten years ago;
that Is to say, very inferior. A special Kind
a!ss seps shi Ets a od als and
silver hrocatcHe present, however, come splen-
did patterns. as to furniture and astisical
articles, they are all Of an Inferior quality,
except the 1eweiry Of Mr. SasikoG, already
noticed in the late. London exposition. The
number Of manufactures aud industrials fig
ninety-et1 Of this number, more than half
COW.
MODERN MosAIcs.-.A medallion portrait
Of FRINGE Albert, which Is interesting as the
frat completed specimen : Of English earthcn
mosaics, has been placed over the cutrance to
the balcony, in the North! Court Of the South
kenamCton Museum. Tie background IL
produced, IN gold mcsaics the red ncck.tie,
M exceptional portion Of the work, IL made
Of glass n1osaica, brought from St. Petersburg.
The work Is placed In rnther dark situation.
but looks worry well indeed at a proper disI1
ance. The fill length figure Of Nicola P1sano,
designed By Leighton, and executed by Sal
vinti's mosaic process, which has been placed
IN the wall.a1cade at South Kensington, d
IN parts Of the coloring, but much leas 60 and
less OPAQUE than the mosaic from Mz, Stevens |
design, which occupies one uc The Pand"ntiyes
PERSONAL ~
E, ABDE1 KADER AND HIS W1vEs.-Abd-cl-
Although fifty yeiYht years old, and decidedly
stout, he Is considered very handsome BY the
Parisians, to whom lie Is very accessible He
"a to stay Ave Or six weeks longer In Paris.
An old French statute provides tllat any slave
touching the soii OF France becomes Dc taeto
free; and Il the two fair Cnrcassians Of Add
c1-Kadet'5 harcn choose to claim their 11ber-
ty, the son of Mall- Eddin would bo unable to