The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-12-25

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recsions in which currents dow Il strange hnt
interest grows There s excissmentin Watching big sh
Twoop like hawks out Of their sea weed forest after
xSe y sunk TO The tree tops 70 tempt them and the
Mr. Campbell suggests plate glass windows In the bot
tom OF boat-it would bring and ash face 70 face
and the habits Of the latter could he alleges 30 lei
surely watched
THE RAILROAD ovER MOUNT GEMS.
The French contractors for the building OF the line are
about 10 commence the works for the railway over Mount
Gents Tho line viii be laid next spring and they OK
pect that in less than fourteen months there will DO an
anhroken railway communication between France and
Italy. The time so saved will be three hours in forty
seven miles between Susa aud st. Michel The most
serious difficulty presented by the service will arise from
the large quantities Of falling from the higher parts
OF the mountain, but there ia to expect that
means devised by the company for keeping the line clear
WIZ samce TO insure uninterrupted travelling.
THE PALACE OF THE CA.sARs.,
Excavations are now in progress on the site OF the
Gent re OF the Cessrs Rome under the direction OF
the arcnsoiogsf Peiro Rosa IL known that the por
ton OF the palace question which extends under the
Farnese Gardens was purchased from tho King OF Naples
by Napoleon ILL., and that his Majesty has instructed
Rosa to clear away the rubbish ia order to ascertain tho
ground plan 0fthe residence the
and also TO bring to light whatever OF antiquity
might be buried there The whole OF tho Ess pu6Ioz
has been already lai bare The works are being actively
prosecuted and NJ Rosa hopes to find under the ruins
OF tho imperial epoch the subsucons or the
times
THE FRENCH PRIZE ESSAY
The French Academy OF Moral aud Political Science
has decided that the subject OF the essays FOR which
Victor Cousin founded prize to be Socrates Con-
sidered a Metaphysican N. Cousin stipulated that
the subject should touch ancient philosophy The
value OF the prize amounts to thirty thousand france
The essay must be sent in to the secretary Office OF the
institute before October 81, 1857.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROGRESS IN ENGLAND.
The members OF the British Archaeological Association
have been in session in London Photographs verc
hibited OF incsed characters oak Intel In tho
manor keep Hexham, together with alleged trans
a.ion. The gentleman who exhibited the photographs
described the inscription "Anclo- Saxon inst pasf
ing into semiSaxon, and he stated that 'thc rst SIX
lines seem TO have been short peniiential chant, re-
cited perhaps by the officiating ecclesasc and by female
prisoners accused OF dark crimes Mr.. Thomas Wright,
however dpeled the illusion and threw rdicule the
assumed translation He said that the characters were
evidently not Anglo Saxon and that far he could
judge from the photograph the writing consisted only OF
the names of different individuals which had been cut in
the wood Rev. T.. KEEL, OF southampton, read paper
on some Roman and Greek coins found in Hampshire,
particularly at Newtown in the Isle OF Wight He said
that the place bore decided marks of having been y
Roman station, and among the coins the exraord
thought that they corroboated the opinion that the Isle
OF Wight wns ancently the high road along which tho
TIN from Cornwall conveyed to the coast 70 be
shipped to Gau and no conceived that the PhGncias
by whom that trade carried on, had brought the
coins there tho Isle OF Wight being at that period
nected with the mainland.