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  2. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

    Rossini's statue was lately inaugurated in Paris. The theatre was crammed to the ceiling with an immense congregation of [?] Selections from the "Barbiere," the "Staba," "Guilaume ...

    Article : 402 words
  3. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

    Ascot races commenced on Tuesday the 9th June, under the most favourable auspices. On that and the following day there were some capital races, but the attendance was limited to the lovers of the turf, ...

    Article : 267 words
  4. PINANG.

    Sugar culture is making rapid progress in Pinang and Province Wellesley, and from the circumstance of nearly all the land suited for the purpose being taken up, the price of estates is advancing very ...

    Article : 162 words
  5. THE GRAND STEEPLE CHASE IN FRANCE.

    The long and anxiously expected steeple chase came off on Easter Monday at the Croix de Bernay. It was more numerously and fashionably attended than any similar meeting since the introduction of ...

    Article : 260 words
  6. JAVA.

    The Dutch Colonial Government has sanctioned the formation of a railway from Batavia to Buiteusorg, and the line of route is already marked out. Engineers, machinery, & c, are to be procured by ...

    Article : 138 words
  7. ROWING.

    The long-talked-of rowing match for £200, between Newell and Clasper, came off on the 18th June, at Newcastle on Tyne, in presence of several thousand spectators. After three false starts Clasper ...

    Article : 56 words
  8. RUSSIA.

    The Russian Government merely confines itself to securing manufacturers against all foreign competition, which causes them to persevere in their apathy and incapacity. To protect three thousand or four ...

    Article : 283 words
  9. EGYPT.

    On or about the 15th June last, a German traveller, Dr. Barth, was brought into Alexandria on a camel by some Bedouins, being, together with his own servants, in a most pitiful state. He left ...

    Article : 157 words
  10. NICOBAR ISLANDS.

    The Danish frigate Ganges was still in the harbour of Pinang on the 4th July, and it was said to be undetermined whether or not the Danish Government would keep the Nicobars. At present it ...

    Article : 346 words
  11. PEDESTRIANISM.

    In May last, a man named Harris, undertook to to cover the five metropolitan bridges in one hour, but lost his match. He, however, made another attempt on a subsequent day and accomplished the ...

    Article : 92 words
  12. EXTRAORDINARY STAG HUNT.

    On the 20th April the Earl of Sheffield turned out a stag before Sir James Langham's hounds, near the Lewes Race-course, to a tolerable field, including the noble earl himself, Mr. W. Barchard and sons, Mr. ...

    Article : 325 words
  13. ABYESINIA.

    Among the many wonderful discoveries made by the mission to the court of Shoe, in Abyssinia, one of the most extraordinary it that of a magnificent [?] lake, some distance inland. It is seven ...

    Article : 278 words
  14. GREAT FOOT-RACE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP AND £200.

    On the 14th April, the long pending foot-race between Butler and. Westhall, who were matched to walk twenty-five miles of road for a side, came off near the White Hart Inn, at Hayes, in the ...

    Article : 216 words
  15. WEST INDIES.

    A (June) arrival in England from the West Indies furnished favourable accounts of the weather, and notified a decrease in the drought recently prevailing there. More Coolees had arrived, and ...

    Article : 403 words
  16. MAURITIUS.

    The quantity of this year's crop of sugar, shipped for foreign ports, up to the 30th of June, was 101,454,761 lbs. A contagious disease is making alarming ...

    Article : 58 words
  17. THE RACE OF TEN MILES AND A HALF IN THE HOUR.

    We copy the following from the Charleston Courier of March [?]:—The foot race between William Jackson (the American Deer), and John Gildersleeve, of the state of New York, both celebrated for their ...

    Article : 241 words
  18. EXTRAORDINARY HIT.

    In a match between the Marylebone Cricket Club and 11 members of the University, in a field at the back of the town gaol, the Earl of Stamford struck a ball clean over a building in the gaol, the height of ...

    Article : 58 words
  19. CEYLON.

    It is proposed to occupy and bring into cultivation, by means of imported English agricultural laboarers, an elevated and extensive district of the island known as the Newera Ellia plains, which are ...

    Article : 132 words
  20. INDIA.

    Sir George Arthur the Governor of Bombay has at length acquiesed in the propriety of the recommendations so strenuously and so frequently urged on him, by his medical attendants, to seek an entire ...

    Article : 846 words
  21. FIGHT EXTRAORDINARY.

    A fight took place at Withy Common, near Wychwood Forest, on the 12th May, between two men of the names of Norley and Gill, for a very large stake. They fought 160 rounds, and the latter came off ...

    Article : 61 words
  22. RIFLE SHOOTING.

    Colonel Dundas, General K. G. Hare, and several other gentlemen, attended the marshes on Wednesday, May the 20th, to witness some Extraordinary experiments conducted by Mr Charles Lancaster, ...

    Article : 185 words
  23. PALESLINE.

    The Greek Patriachk at Constantinople has a revenue of shout £500,000 a-year from the donations of pilgr[?] to the Holy Sepulchre. This revenue is called the treasure of the Holy Sepulchre, and ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. STEEPLE-CHASING.

    Steeple-chasing, if duly carried out, is to proper bold riding what fool-hardiness is to courage. It proves nothing except that the chaser is in desperate want of a sensation, or the credit of it; and that he ...

    Article : 188 words
  25. CHINA.

    The Government of Portugal has issued a decres declaring Macao a free port, but coupled with restrictions that, if enforced, would go a great way to [?] the anticipated advantages of the ...

    Article : 80 words
  26. UNITED STATES.

    Mr. Clayton, of the House of Representatives, made a memorable reply to a speech from Mr. Allen (upon the Oregon question), in which the member wound up with bitter hostility and defiance to ...

    Article : 79 words
  27. CRICKETING.

    One of the most splendid cricket matches on record came off on the 18th June, at Lord's Ground. It was a trial at single wicket between Mr. Felix, who has the reputation of being the best batter in the ...

    Article : 514 words
  28. SINGAPORE.

    The number of passengers landed from steamers or sailing vessels, from July 10th to 19th inclusive, was 257, comprising 123 Chinese, from the ...

    Article : 119 words
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