International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850Various
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
Various
Art -- Periodicals; Literature -- Periodicals; Science -- Periodicals
MR. HEALEY is in Paris, engaged busily on his Webster and Hayne
picture, of which at the time of its projection, so much was said.
The canvas is some twenty feet by fourteen, and all the heads will be
portraits. It will be valuable, and must command a ready sale. Will
Massachusetts buy it for her State House, or South Carolina for her
Capitol? It would be a splendid ornament for Fanueil Hall, and not be
misplaced on the walls of the Charleston Court House.
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MANUEL GODOY, the famous "Prince of Peace," it is mentioned in recent
foreign journals, has left Paris for Spain. The Government at Madrid
has restored a considerable part of his large confiscated estates, and
he probably has returned to enjoy a golden setting sun. He must be at
least eighty years of age.
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MONS. LIBRI, a well known savant, member of the Institute, and a
professor of the College of France, has been charged, in Paris, with
having committed extensive thefts of valuable MSS. and broken in the
public libraries. He has persisted in proclaiming his innocence, and
is warmly defended by certain papers. An indictment was found, he did
not appear; he was tried, in his absence, for contumacy. He was found
guilty of the most extensive depredations in this way. Abstracting the
most valuable books, effacing identifying marks, sending them out of
the country to be rebound, and then selling them at costly rates. He
was sentenced to imprisonment for ten years at hard labor.
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