EUROPEAN NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 63, 12 October 1853, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS.

Tho trustee* of the Femala Emigraiion Fund, esta'jlMied undei Mr. Sydney Herbert's presidency hid determined on widely extending the scale of operations. Upwards of 1200 ne-edle wome-n having been sent to the colonies, and £'.'4,000 tbus expended, it lia* been found tint those of their clnss me better employed, and the desire to rmigrdlt much less. At a recent meeting the Right Hon. Sydney Herb-rt occupying the chair, it was ddfrmined that the advnnmg"S ot the fund should be extended to any women des ; rouslo cmignte without distinc:ion of age residence, or occupation, upon tbe payment "f £22 f r each emigrant, biingnt the ratoof nearly £10 less than (ha present rate of charge for intermediate passengers, 'ills fmt paity 1 f emigrants upon the new system wens dispatch d in onf of Messis. Green's first clan ships, nt the latter end of July and, on arrival in any of the Australian colonies they were promised " nil the advantages of thf Cov<rnment Home and the Minn's ation Inipoctot's exprrit-nco and counsel,"

Tim: SunMAitiNi? TEi.rGßAni.— The Knglish und Irish Magnctie Te!egra|)h Compiny r h,ive succtffsfully cornpli ted their submarine line of communication between Geat Britain and li eland. The rablc luid acroct, consists of six gutta percha covered copper wires lor condut ting the mannctic current, insu'nttd in jjuit.t percha, and protected from outwurd <lam«ge by a spiml iron wire < asing.

A telegraphic dispatch from Milan announces ih it symptoms of a Ircsh insurrection existed, and thnt numerous arrestw wtre efiected, in conseijucnce uf which a

coiicmtration of ihe Austrian tronps near the Swiss frontier, had t'ken place,

The Government have abandoned all further proceedings against Mr. HaY, the proprietor of the war-rot ket manufactory ;it Llotherithe, and have signified their i.jtf ntion of leimbursing him for the propr>rtv seized The seizure in this case was tho ground of the accusation made hy the 'Times' aitd mi'inberi of the Gtivertnn nt against Kossuth.

A London paper snys— "The Emigration to Au>tralia still coniir.u-s as brisk .is ever, and the price of the p .ssagc is ki-j,t up by]the scarcity of shipping. Tlie vo^>ils that have arrived during the present year have almost till bien discharged ni)d relouded in about six weeks."

'J he Edinburgh Theatre ha'J been lotiiljy destroytd by fire. This Theatre was, perhaps, one of ihe most renowned among the temples of Tliespis in Geat Britnin ;— having outlived the burnings of Covt-nt Gardtn, Drury Lane, and most of the metropolitan !-lruct',rcs, and having been for upwards of a century, a most distinguished school of dramatic art — in which the Siddons, her son and his gifted wife, the Keml>li\«, Ke.ms, O'Neills and all the talents', huve co constantly delighted our sires and gr.indsire*.

The Jiws of Leipsic have just obtained permisMon to build a Synngogue in that city. A subscription was opened, and the whole sum collected in a week. Among the subscribers wcro persons belonging to elift'. rent Chiintian creeds.

On tbe 30th of May there was a heavy full of hail at Vienna, with the thormomcter at 78 Fahrenheit, and violent thunder. '1 he hailstones which fell were as Urge as pigeon's eggs, mid all the windows in the wentern part of the town were broken, and 745 pines in the passeDgcrs' hull at the rdi'-ioad.

A number of coins, bnrii'd in an earthenware vistel of Roman origin, have been diaeovored at Old Panama. 'Die names o/ MaxitQtu, Diocleiian, and Constnntinv, are legt' y iiucnbed od many ot them.

Table moving ia now all the rage in Rome, the my»tic circle of hands being

formed with great success. The Pope himself has seen and verified the diet.

The total number of vessels that ha d sailed from England for Australia during the month of M.irch amonntid to the extraordinary uuntbi-r of 122 ships, of a burthen of 48,565 tons-

The coronation of ihe Emperor and Empress of France is slated to be fixed for the 10th of September. The Daily News says — Mazzini honcc more secure in Fng'and. The leader of the iniuitection in Milan was in that city three months before the' outbreak. More than that lie re>teu securely in that city for more than a month alter the insurrection had been suppressed, and then left Italy in safety for London.

The commercial traveller who endeavour to extort money or a Government situation from Mr. Gladstone, by threatening to publish a falie nciusaiion against him, hut b. cm sentenced to I*2 months imprisonment with hard labour.