PENRITH HERALD and East Cumberland and Westmorland News. NO. 446 - First Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission Abroad./Price 1D. ___________________________________________________ CONTINENTAL ON DITS. THE POPE has given his assent to the canonization and beatification of ELISABETTA CANORI MORA, who has been proposed for this exaltation by the congregationn of sacred rites. If he could only produce the beautification of ladies, many would pay any amount for the substantial advantage. THE QUEEN OF GREECE was nearly killed the other day. She would have been run over by a reckless driver had not PRINCE WILLIAM, the King's uncle, seized the horses, and by great physical strength thrust them back. THE PUBLIC OF PARIS have deserted the Tuileries Gardens to such an extent that the proposal now before the Municipal Council of Paris, for cutting a street through the parterres from the Rue Castiglione to the Pont Solferino, raises but a faint outcry. MANY attribute the decrease in the population of France to the disinclination of mothers to suckle their infants, as interfering with the former's appearance in society; hence the infant is given out to a mercenary nurse. ALPHONSE KARR supplicates the Assembly to decree a law, compelling every mother who is able but unwilling to nurse her own child, to wear a collar of corks round her neck for a twelvemonth. PRINCE NAPOLEON purposes again making Paris his permanent abode, and MESSRS. SPRENT, SPRENT and PHIPPS, the well-known estate agents of the Rue de Riveli, have secured for his Imperial Highness a handsome residence, with its costly contents, on the Boulevard Malesherbes, immediately opposite the Parc Moncea. The family of MARSHAL BAZAINE having placed his late elegant mansion in the Avenue de Jena in the hands of the same firm for disposal, they have just let it on lease to an American family of distinction. DR. DUMONT, who has just died at the age of 75, was distinguished for his love of science and art. He received numerous medical honours, yet he never concealed his opinion, that of having no faith in medicines. He literally threw physic to the dogs. He did not belong to the "peculiar people." His first illness was his last; he received his ' confreres ' to the last, but ever refused their prescriptions. CARRIER PIGEONS are largely used by Parisian periodicals for carrying latest intelligence. They start from Versailles from two o'clock in the afternoon till three. The average number is thirty pairs, and the charge four shillings each pair. The journey is accomplished in twelve minutes when fogs are not frequent. It is not legal for newspaper editors to hire a wire for their private use.