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Day
8
Month
May
Year
1847
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It is reported thnl the first sleam-ship cnnveying the Irish mail, will leave Havre about the lst oí. next tnonlh for New York. "Vulcanized India-rubber" s now used nstfad of steel Tor the buftjr springs of railway carriages. A vossel which lns arrived in London f rom New York has brought28 casks of eider. A subscription has boon on foot in London for the purpose of erecting a statue in honor of the Queen Downger. For the lst timp, on the 14lh uit., the " Augsburgh Gazette" was pprmitted to publish the debates of the Austrian Diet. The Norwciginn herring fishery for thisycar is ended; on the whole, 25,000 tons have been put into salt. The Empcror of Russia hns issued an ukase, declnring that Jews in the army sball be allowed to rise to the rank of liautenant. The Duke do Rianzares, husband of Queen Chrislina. hns puid 18,000f. duty for the title of Duke of Montmorot in France. lt is said that Government intonds to introduce a bilí fjr the entire prohibition of burinls in town. Letters from Napira announco that a reconciliation has taken place between the Piince of Cnpua and his brotlier the King Naples. The central relief committec of the Society of Friends in Dublin have 1 ed JC7000, per Cambria,from ibeir bretheren n America. Mr. Bain is about to erect his electrical clock in the towerof VVenham churc'i, wiih power of motion to be incessantlv maintnined by a perpetual electric curren', derived from tho earth. The Pope has orJered general gos works to be constructed beyond the walls of Rome, in order to light the streets and supply privato consume rs. In consequence of the corn disturbancps in the dopartment of the Loiret, all conveys of grain and flour in that district will hencforth be escorted by soldiers. During the past weok,potatoes wero imporled inio London from Holland, Germnny, Italy, SpHÍn, France, Maderia, the United Siates, nnd the British cclonies in North America. A vessel has arrived in London with 2000 barrels of flour frcm Venice. Although corn has frequently been imported from that city, flour had nol previously been brought thence. The mngnanimous Government of Louis Phiüppe has refuseJ Prince Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte permission to spend n fortnight in Paris with hs sister, the Princess Mathilda Dem - idoff. The greatest activity prevails in the shipbuilders' yards at Sunderland. in consequence of the exlraordinary demand for new vessels, to be engaged in the timber and corn trade. Trsde is reviving in Paisley - so much so, that the relief commiltee expect to be able to cut off 200 portions per day of soup kitchen suplies. The run on the Paris savingsbank not only continuos, but increnses. The de posites on the21st and 22d uit. amounted to 480, 193f., and the wilhdrawU to 859, 6G7f.- a difference of 15,000 sterling. The Board of Ailmiralty have entered into a contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company,for armed mail steamers to Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibralter, to sail the 7th, and 17th, of each month, from Southampton. Experiments have been tried withg'.incotton (Tound to be far more powerful than gunpowder) in blasling rocks, at Slandedge Tunnel, Yorkshirc One explosión broke 224 cubic feet of rock, about 10 1-2 tons weight, into six pieces. The houseof Sina & Co., Vienna, has been adjudged by a court ofjustice to pay 1,800,000 florins (L180,000; lo Mestrs. Allman, of Pesth, as their share of the profit.s on the tobáceo contract with the Austrian Government for a single year. AtBeyrout, an American missicnary has forrned a native Asiatic society, composed chiefly of young Syrians, who are studyinglhe history nnd literature of the East, and who are anxiously cellecting a library, which is intended lo comprise all known Arbic liierature. An acorediicd delegation from the natives of the Hudson's Bay Companys' territories is at present in London, tirging their complaints of illegiil oppression. and of neglect on the part of the company lo provide for the moral advancement of the natives. Prussia and Austria intend to reduce their armies. Prii'sifi has recommended to the German Diet a Inw according certain liberly to the press, and Bavaria and Wuriemburg have notified their intention of siipporting it The ex-Dictator of Cracow, M. Tysoffski, bas taken his departure for the United States. He would brobably have been condomned to death, or, at least, to imprisonment for Üfe, for the leading part hetook in the lato Polish outbreak, had ho not consented to perpetual banithment lo America. The Austrian Government has sent liim out, and has given orders to i!s Minister at Washington to help him to get his living. All the inhabitnnts of the tovvn of Egelsbach, in the Grand Duchy of Ilcsse Damstadt, 2400 in number, have requested permission to be allowed to emigrate to the United States. From Bremcn the number of emigrants has been really extraordinary, and in April and May will vet bc grealer. Throughout all Germany, in fact, preparations are making for emigration to the States - indeed, some districts are threatencd with complete depopulalion. Lor,! John RuweH stated in a recent speech in Parliament, that during the sixleenth cpntury there occurred in England something very similar to the present Irish fatnine. It was related, he said, by Sir Thomas Moore in his writings, that 300,000 men at one time roamed about, subsisting by theft,of whom no less than seventy-thousand were hung in a single year.

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