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Show FOREIGN SCRAPS. The I impress of Bussia has a spe cial passion for roses, and her conservatories conser-vatories are full of them. By all accounts ac-counts Alexander likes his to blossom on the nose. The British Board of Trade, finding confirmation strong as Holy Writ m trifles light as Eyre, have refused to reverse their decision in the Bombay ca?e. Petroleum springs are said to have been tapped in the region lying east of the Caspian. Getting ready for a huge conflagration all over. The numismatic society of Paris makes an appeal to the public for subscriptions sub-scriptions to form a company for the purchase of the ancient Roman circus lately discovered in the Hue Monge. Napoleon has granted a free pardon to Lesurir, who had been condemned to a month's imprisonment for having shouted to his majesty at a review, "To Cayenne with him ! To Cayenne!" The Spaniards continue the execution execu-tion of prisoners taken in Cuba, the usual mode of trial being that adopted at one time in the west of Ireland: execute first, and then investigate the matter at leisure over the dead bodies. The Paris Chon'cari publishes a wood cut representing an unfortunate voter undergoing the punishment of being torn to pieces by four horses, to which he is attached by the arms and legs. The animals bear the etiquettes of "'Yes," '"No," "Abstention," and ''Blank Bu'letin." Below is written, "What delight to be an elector!" The "Grand American circus," now exhibiting in Italy, had a rough tune on the 2d of May, at Genoa. A band of young scamps attempted to tret in without paying, and when they were driven off returned in such force and stoned the pavilion so ferociously that troops had to be called in to suppress the disturbance. A landed proprietor in the cast of Fife, Scotland, evidently dreading the reixal of the came laws and the law I of hypothec, has inserted the following clauses in the conditions of lease of the farm he has to let: "The tenant is bound to Lave no run in his possession," posses-sion," "no dorr to be kept unless til-ways til-ways chained;1' and "the keys of the granaries to be given up to the landlord land-lord at any moment." |