Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-13
Foreign Tid-Bits.

A letter from Rome SAYS: "1his has been
splendid season; the number of English and
Americans is quite fabulous, and they have
been well amused in the Eternal City, by
about forty grand balls and iunumerable
smaller reunions during the carnival. Prin-
cess DORA received all the elite at magnif-
cent fete, where the splendor of the palace and
the amount of riches displayed, might have as
tonished many crowned head. Prince Tor
lonia had vast ''crush ball. and the French
ambassadress, Countess de Rayneyal, gave
grand rout at the Colonna palace. Nor have
good dinners been wanting-the Duke of
Northumberland gave splendid banquets once
week. Last week. too, there was large
entertainment given by Mr.. Hooker, partner
in the bank of Maquay & Pakenham, to the
late President of the United States, Mr.. Mar
tin Van Buren,, at which many of the most
distinguished residents and strangers in Rome
assisted" The Duke of Wellington, who
has been enjoying the carnival here, was pres
ent, as well as Cardinal Altieri, Prince Mas
simo, Sir Alexander Mallett, Duke of Ser
monetta, and others. But now all the gale
ties, except the hunt, are. perforce, over, and
the correct Romans give up to fasting and say
ing their prayers"
According to the Galway Packet, the Gel
tic race is fast disappearing, even in It's west
ern stronghold. The editor has Just complet-
ed tour through Iar-Connaught and Joyce 5
country, and for miles, he says, the traveller
could not see human habitation-all was ut
ter desolation; not trace of farm cultivation,
and in lieu of houses, nothing remained but
heaps of stones and unroofed gables.
In the Englieh House of Commons. Mr.. H.
Drummond alluded to Prussia as ''that faith
less country whirh had ever deserted us in our
hour of need, and which, ever since it was a
kingdom, had deserted every power that sup
ported it hear)-that had always gone over
to the strongest and taken advantage of the
weak in their hour of greatest weakness
country that had been called a nation of phi
losophers and schoolmasters, whose religion
was sort of neology that turned everything
sacred into lie-which had no morality ex-
cept that of despising the institution of mar
rage, Ga laugh,) SO that he had read of man
playing a rubber of whist at Berlin with three
ladies' each of whom had once the happiness
of being his wife" (Laughter.)
A petition is in course of signature at Mar
settles, praying that France and England
should set the example of suppressing the sys-
TEN of letters of marque. AS measure OF
reciprocity, 1t is proposed that Russia should
be called on to renounce the use of privateers,
under pain of seeing them considered as pi-
rates, and treated accordingly.
In the recent debate on the subject of the
whip i'll the Second Chamber of Prussia, NJ
de Gerlach, one of the principal mel of the
extreme right, maintained that whipping was
the only effective punishment for the peasant
ry aid certain women. In the Second Cham
Der of Prussia, Al persons were found to vote
in favor of this monstrous doctrine; against
which, however, government obtained lis
votes.
A great deal of the lethargy of the Turk
may be traced to Constantinople and the Bos-
phorus, whose naturally beautiful position
has undoubtedly largely contributed towards
those habits of slothful luxury and Incidence,
wasteful profusion and dissipation, which have
at all times distinguished the inhabitants of
Stanboul. The Turk of Asia Minor aud the
interior is very different man to the inhabi-
tant of the capital, and in him the warrior
spirit still breathes, which has long died away
from the banks of the beauteous stream which
runs through the pleasure gardens of Constan-
tinODle