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  2. FOREIGN GLEANINGS.

    A French traveller, M. Rochet D'Haricourt [says the Courner Francais), lately concluded a treaty of peace and amity, in the name of France, with the King of Shoa. in Abyssinia. That act ...

    Article : 251 words
  3. FRANCE.

    The Journal des Debats publishes some particulars relative to a corn riot which occurred at Montmorillon, in the department of Vienne, where the of the department narrowly escaped ...

    Article : 564 words
  4. POLAND.

    The Polish provinces are far from being tranquil, and a letter from Berlin, of the 3rd February, states that, notwithstanding the denials of the Austrian journals, large numbers of Russian troops have been ...

    Article : 190 words
  5. TEXAS.

    A body of German immigrants have opened a new settlement on the Llano, about 60 miles above Fredericksburg. The land in the valley of the Llano is remarkably productive, and the climate even more ...

    Article : 293 words
  6. MEXICO.

    Mexico has one fatal feature which makes the mind despair of her ever holding the rank of a great nation. However glaring may be the superstition of Continental Europe. it is of a feeble hue to the ...

    Article : 554 words
  7. AUSTRIA.

    The Emperor of Austria has just ordered the erection of a suspension-bridge over the large (combined) arm of the Danube, near Vienna, being about the breadth of the Thames at Woolwich. ...

    Article : 181 words
  8. PRUSSIA.

    A letter from Berlin, of the 25th January, states that, by royal ordinance, the long formula hitherto in use in courts of law, when an oath is taken, is to be replaced by the words, " I swear before God to ...

    Article : 97 words
  9. PENANG.

    The following interesting particulars, of what may be termed a judiciously private execution, are ex traded from the Government Gazette of the British settlement at Penang. dated March 30:— ...

    Article : 580 words
  10. ALGERIA.

    A private letter received at Marseilles from Algiers, had brought the intelligence that the 19th Regiment has fallen into an ambuscade prepared by the Arabs, and the entire body made prisoners. ...

    Article : 257 words
  11. UNITED STATES.

    By accounts Just received from the United States we learn that the House of Representatives was the seene of considerable excitement from the 2nd to the 6th January. It appears that the president's ...

    Article : 602 words
  12. GERMANY.

    We read in a German journal:—"The cookmaid of the family of the poet Hartman, at Prague, being aware that a sum of 2,000 thalers was kept in a secretary, communicated the fact to a man whom she ...

    Article : 335 words
  13. BAVARIA.

    Un christmas Day, at two o'clock in the afternoon, a noise was heard in the environs of Mindethal, in a circumference of at least eighteen leagues in diameter, resembling, in the first instance, a ...

    Article : 329 words
  14. MALTA.

    The new dry dock at Malta, a stupendous work, is constructed at the head of the Dockyard creek, on the S.E. and by E. side of the Great Harbour, was commenced by driving the first pile May 10th. 1842. ...

    Article : 391 words
  15. SPAIN.

    The News Espectador thus describes a mysterious arm-chair which had been recently constructed at Madrid:—"The master upholsterer, Antonio Jose Preiie. has just finished a magnificent arm-chair, the ...

    Article : 131 words
  16. HAYTI.

    The new constitution adopted by (what may be called) the enligtened Negro government, in Hayti or St. Domingo, is partly monarchial and partly republican—it was probably the work of France. The ...

    Article : 69 words
  17. HANOVER

    An act of barbarity has recently been perpetrate in Germany against a Jew, which, to a certain extent, is unparalleled in modern history. We call it unparalleled. because it did not proceed from a ...

    Article : 495 words
  18. WEST INDIES.

    It is a singular coincidence that the same disease which has attacked the potatoes in other countries has attacked the cocoa in Jamaica. This useful edible may be said to be the principal article of food ...

    Article : 206 words
  19. SWEDEN.

    A letter from Stockholm states that the six cellular (solitary confinement) prisons, built by order of the government in different parts of the kingdom, have inst been terminated. These prisons can ...

    Article : 478 words
  20. EGYPT:

    Mehemet All is now, it is believed, in his 79th or 80th year: but time has dealt kindly with him, and he has not been wanting on his part, in endeayours to deserve this lenient treatment. About ...

    Article : 250 words
  21. NETHERLANDS.

    The Noord Holland Courant, makes the incredible assertion that by a recent treaty with an Indian prince, the Dutch Government has engaged to check, as far as possible, the diffusion of the Christian ...

    Article : 38 words
  22. PALESTINE.

    Letters from Alexandria state, that 10,000 Russian Jews were expected, to arrive in the Holy Land and settle there. ...

    Article : 23 words
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  24. PORTUGAL.

    Retent advises were to the following purport:— This country continues in the same disturbed state which has been experienced for these many months past. The two armies, the rebels and the Queen's troops, are in sight of each other at Oporto, without ...

    Article : 116 words
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