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A sum of 4000 francs has been Bent by Louis Napoleon and the Empress to the Patriarch of Jerusalem, for the French missionaries there.

The Prince of Prussia has been occupied in reorganizing the music of the army on the Austrian system, which employs eighty men in a band, with many brass instruments.

There are three Generals in the United States Cabinet—General Pierce, President; General Cushing, Attorney-General ; and General Davis, Secre- tary of War.

The Vienna Lloyd Bays that Omer Pasha is much beloved by his soldiers, though he conforms but little to Mahometan customs—he drinks wine openly, and has no harem, but a single wife, a Transylvanian lady. He is pas- sionately fond of horses, and keeps a stud of 200.

The French mail from Marseilles to Constantinople which touched at Malta on the 5th, had several Hungarian officers on beard; among them, General Klapka, travelling incognito.

The sisters of Kossuth have opened a store in New York Broadway, for the sale of mantillas, lace, and children's clothing.

A statue to Copernicus has been inaugurated at Thorne.

A meeting of scientific and literary men and those connected with print- ing has been held at Philadelphia to promote the erection of a monument to Benjamin Franklin.

A motion has been made in the Commercial Council of Turin to the effect that the Piazza San Carlo shall be called the "National Pantheon," and be adorned with the monument of Gioberti and those of other illustrious Pied- montese.

Two years ago, the French aeronaut, M. Arban' made an ascent from Barcelona, and was not again heard of till the other day, when he made his appearance once more. His balloon had gone over to Africa ; he had been seized and made a slave, and but recently effected his escape.

Mademoiselle Teisseire, one of the actresses at the Paris Vaudeville, has thrown up her engagement and forfeited a sum of money rather than appear in Lea Pins de Prance; alleging that the dress she was to wear was immodest. No doubt she was right, as the piece was only a vehicle to exhibit the "pretty troupe of the Vaudeville in the most piquant costumes imaginable." Made- moiselle Teisaeire has joined the corps of the Palais Royal.

A Parisian celebrity has just died—" Mademoiselle Olympe," formerly a boot-binder. During her constant attendances at the public balls she capti- vated a German baron, who married her, and, dying some eight months ago' left her from 30,000 to 40,000 francs a peer. She pined away after his death, and died herself, in her twenty-second year.

The English residents at Paris belonging to the Established Church of England have resolved to ereet a chapel large enough to accommodate 1500 persons, provided our Government shall promise to contribute one-third of the expense.

It is stated that there are twenty-five thousand Chinese in California ; and that they have subscribed 2000 dollars to erect a Protestant church.

No fewer than three new Roman Catholic Bishops have just been conse- crated at New York. Their "dioceses" are Newark, Brooklyn, and Bur- lington.

Rota Waitoa, an Aboriginal, has been admitted to deaeou's orders by the Bishop of New Zealand. Many liaories were present at the ordination, to whom the Bishop preached in their native tongue.

There are erected or now building at Chicago in the United States seven Roman Catholic churches. Two of those completed are estimated to be worth 500,000 dollars.

The Protestant Episcopal Church steadily increases in the United States. /n 1832 there were 21 dioceses, 592 clergy, 678 parishes, and 32,268 commu- nicants; in 1852 there were 29 dioceses, 1650 clergy, 1650 parishes, and 100,000 communicants.

A penny postage stamp has been introduced at the Cape of Good Hope : the stamp is of triangular shape, and of red colour. Nearly fifty consecutive miles of railway from Alexandria are now in working condition, though the works are retarded by the troubles of the times.

According to the New York Herald, the Interoceanio Railroad surireying party in Honduras have discovered a new route, which would enable persons ping from New York to reach California seven days earlier than by way of Panama. The route is straight, nearly level, and passes by silver and other mines.

The French Government have now four offices in Paris for conveying telegraphic messages. Companies who undertake telegraphic communica- tions for the public are obliged to work through the Government agents; and even these trammelled companies are discouraged by a notification in the dfoniteur that they cause delay and extra expense to customers.

The first electric telegraph in Sweden was to be opened on the let instant: it extends from Stockholm to Upsala.

The Royal Observatory at Brussels has this week been placed in electric communication with the Greenwich Observatory, for the purpose of facili- tating the determination of the difference of longitude between the places, in a direct manner. The electric communication is made in such a man- ner that every oscillation of the pendulum at Brussels will be represented with accuracy at Greenwich, and the same, as regards the latter place, at Brussels.

Lady doctors are now the "rage" in the Western cities of America.

Dr. Landolfi, physician to the King of Naples, has discovered a method for the cure of cancer when not in its worst and last stage. He has cured a lady of rank at Munich, and has now gone to attend a princess in the North of Germany.

The Medical Gazette of St. Petersburg states, that since the first appear- ance of the cholera in the city, on the 13th October 1852, there have been 13,861 cases ; 8190 cures, and 5609 deaths.

A recent balloting for recruits at Berlin disclosed the fact that the male population is physically degenerating, in height, health, and conformation.

Dr. Liljevalch, physician to the King of Sweden, has published a pam- phlet on the necessity for fresh air in barracks ; in which he shows that soldiers in all countries are kept on short allowance of air in their sleeping- rooms : the mortality of soldiers in peace is much larger than that of the general population.

In August last the population of Victoria was estimated at 250,000, of whom 100,000 were at the Diggings.

A new and important gold-field has been discovered in New South Wales, on the Hunter river, a few miles above Maitland.

The Customhouse returns show that on an average each inhabitant of the colony of Victoria consumes annually 3i gallons of spirits, 21 gallons of wine, 14 pounds of tea, 8 pounds of coffee, and n pounds of tobacco.

The Melbourne Argue says—" In this, the richest colony in the world, the males outnumber the .females to the enormous extent of about o7,000! Think of that, fair ladies !—a husband to be chosen from amongst a desolate surplus of fifty-seven thousand ! "

Provisions and other necessaries of life are at an enormous price in Hobart Town : butter is 3$. 6d. to 4s. a pound, eggs 5d. each, coals—" mere black atones "—Bay. per ton.

The value of property is increasing in Canada. The construction of rail- ways has augmented the price of land in some place to an astonishing extent.

New York consumes thirty thousand bushels of peaches daily during the season.

A newspaper has been commenced at New York the types of which are set up by female compositors; who appear to be paid men's wages.

A clever robbery has been committed in the Bank of the State of New York, by which a bag containing notes for nearly 38,000 dollars was whisked away from a desk inside the counter while the porter who had charge of it had turned to receive some specie.

A Californian paper has an account of a "female Robinson Crusoe "—an Indian woman left desolate on an island in the Pacific for eighteen years, and recently brought to the continent.

The Daily .News has been excluded from Cuba by the Captain-General, for an article attacking the island authorities on the subject of the slave-trade.

The Supreme Court of Ceylon has recently admitted the first Kandian ad- vocate.

The Friend of China states that the Canton mandarins have executed 677 persons in 189 days of this year.

The Nile has risen so very high this year as to cause great damage to the crops.

In consequence of the high price of provisions, the Northern Railway Com- pany of France have added 10 per cent to the wages of all their servants who receive 1200 francs a year and under.

It is not fair to estimate the quantity of animal food consumed in Paris merely by the number of cattle slaughtered. From a recent discovery made by the Police agents it appears that a large trade is carried on in dogs-flesh. The animals are stolen, and sold to the inferior eating-house keepers ; who find it difficult to supply the demand for those suspicious-looking but "re- markably cheap" compounds.

One of the large perfume manufacturers of Grasse' in the South of France, uses annually 80,000 pounds of orange blossoms, 54,000 pounds of rose.. leaves, and immense quantities of other sweet-scented flowers.

The cultivation of the silk-worm in the March of Brandenburg, introduced by Frederick the Great, makes considerable progress, spite of the unfavour- able climate.

A question arose in a trial at Schaffhausen, as to whether the sound made by one person boxing another's ears could be heard by parties in an adjoining room: the two judges settled the point by one boxing. the ear* of the other in the room, ear-witnesses being placed in an atljouting apartment—the blows were heard.