FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 798, 7 December 1853, Page 3

FOREIGN MEMORANDA.

(From the " Home News," August 8.) The New York Crystal Palace was opened on the 14th July, in the presence of an immense concourse of spectators. The President of the United States and General Scott were present. The steamer Empire, on he downward trip from Albany to New York, on the morning of the 16tli ulfc., was run into by a sloop, and one of her boilers was thrown overboard. Two persons were killed, and eight or ten severely injured. The damage done to the steamer is estimated at 6000 dollars. Dr. Barlow, an English medical gentleman visiting Berlin, experienced " brutal treatment at the hands of the Berlin police." According to the instructions of the Foreign-office here his passport was not vise by any Prussian authority in London. Wanting this he was arrested at the railway station :—"I was sent, under extremely annoying and vexatious circumstances, after half-an-hour's detention in a guard-room, in the custody qf a policeman, to the head police office, where I was kept in durance vile, among a set of itinerant vagabonds, for nearly three hours, and was subjected to ail the brutality of looks and words which the menials of the office, short of personal violence, could well inflict; after this I was told I might go where I liked, and received back my passport." An ascent, to the summit of Mount Blanc was made on the 21st of July, by Mr. Salmond, of Cumberland, and Mr. Arthur Walsham, of the Royal Artillery. The return of the adventurers to the valley was hailed by salvos of artillery. A merchant in Michigan sent an order by telegraph to New York for " one eight-dollar blue shawl;'' the message delivered in New York substituted " one hundred" for " one ;" and a hundred shawls were sent to Michigan : of course the merchant returned nutty-nine. The shawl-dealers brought an action for damages against the telegraph company. The company denied their liability generally, and pleaded specially that the directions given at Michigan were " obscure." The fact of the obscurity was not made out; and the judge overruled the general plea. The jury gave a verdict for 118 dollars. Emma Verdier, a young woman who ascended in a balloon from Mount-de-Mersan, has been killed at Montesquieu, sixty miles distant, by falling from the car : it is supposed that on her attempting to descend, the grappling-iron caught in a tree, and that the rope broke, causing a jerk, which pitched the unfortunate young woman out of the wicker basket; while the balloon floated away. A German paper states that the Russian gamblers at Baden Baden, on the night of the 16th of July, broke the bank: the winners carrying off* 30,000 francs.

No fewev than 62.26,5 pilgrims entered Aix-la-Chapelle on the 17th of July, on a visit to the relics. This is stated on the authority of a local journal. Throughout therecentnegotiationsontheTurkish questions, M. Dreuyn de Dhuys has been suffering from a painful malady in the eyes. The marriage of the Duke of Brabant with the Austrain Archduchess Maria Henrietta has been fixed for Sunday the 21st of August. The Duke and his brother, the Count of Flanders, have been visited with the royal epidemic of : the season—the measles.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany has commuted the sentences on Guerazzi, Petracchi, and Yaltancelli, into perpetual exile from Italy. It is understood that they will be allowed to return to Tuscany, on condition that they apply to the Grand Duke. Usener, the principal witness against Mr. Hale in the rocket case, has been arrested at Cohlentz. One report states that he was on his way from Russia. Another, however, gives out that he was on his way to Switzerland. The twenty-second anniversary of King Leopold's taking possession of the throne of Belgium, and swearsng to respect the constitution of 1831, was celebrated on the 21st of July with the usual ceremony.