Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-03-28
Additional Items from Europe
BY THE ATLANTIC.


flares at Naples has just concluded treaty
with the Neapslitan Government for the mu-
tual protection Of all goods on beard neutral
bottoms.
Tho Queen Dowager Of Holland is the
late Cars sister. Her Majesty wished that
the news should be kept secret, but in the first
burst Of her grief she involuntsrily communi-
Gated the loss she had sustained to the persons
about her, and at once ii spread like wildfre-
the live thunder leapsd along the wires to
Berlin, Paris, and London-snd ore those eyes
before which sixty millions Of serfs were wont
to quail, were fixed in their sockets, Lords
Clarendon and Plmerston were communicating
the news to the Houses of Lords and Commons,
some two or tnree thousand miles distant.
MIR. ]. g. Phillimore reminded the House
of Commons the other evening, that 4" It vas
notorious that Marlborough was an illiterste
man; that Marshal SAKE could hardly write
his name and that not one Of the marshals
of Napoleon, with the exception of Berns-
dotte, was and educated man.
"A despatch from st. Petersburg says
The decomposition of the body of tho EN-
peror Nicholas is so rapid, that the lying in
state becomes impossible "
Tho following fact 10 mentioned, to show
| the prevalent feeling in St. Petersburgh,
about the war. The artist Zacharoff, either
AIou potIIOtlsm VI SPECULATION, maze q
picture which represents Peter I. in his work.
| shop, whore he is making cross. In order
| to connect the rude Emperor with the reigning
| monarch, clever motto was written at the
foot Of tho picture, which was then submitted
to the Emperor for his appreciation, previous
to its being engraved and distributed in prints.
| The Imperial sanction runs a. follows "The
| words may be used beneath the print, viz |:
| Print Of Peter I. engaged in erecting a cross,
dedicated to the Emperor Nicholas I lighting
for the Cross The sum of fifty silver copecks
from the sale of each print may be set apart
for tho succ0r of those wounded in the present
war"
"A correspondent of tho London News,
| writing from Berlin, endeavors to show that
| there was no occasion to attribute tho death
OF the Car Nicholas to any other than natu
| raj causes.
- The Due dc Grammont, ono of the Oldest
| Of the legitimists in France 10 dead He mar.
ried tho beautiful and only sister of the Comte
d'Orsay. de leaves three sons and two daugh-
| tiers.
- The two sons of tho poet Burns have been
promoted, VIM. Nichol to colonelcy and Jas.
Glencayin to a lieutenant colonelcy.
John Garden, tho Irish gentleman who at.
| tempted to carry off Miss Arbuthnot, an Eng.
lish heiress, has been liberated from prison on
| the plea of ll-health, on condition that be
will reside abroad until the term of his sen
tence expires.
Tho Lyons Gazette contains tho follow.
ing:
"a person named Bernard, gravedigger to
the executive government in 1893, died few
days ago in a village near Lyons It was to
him that the Abbe Sylvan Renaud, first vica
OF the church of tho Madeleine, delivered the
decapitated bodies Of King Louis XVI, and
Marie Antoinstte, which were both deposited
in open cofins. The King wore white waist.
coat and gray silk brooches and stockings
His head was placed between his legs Ber-
nsrd, who was . tailor, continued for 40 years
to exercise tho function of gravedigger in the
village whore he died"
The mail steamer Atrato, from Very Cruz
Feb. 5, had arrived at SOUTHAMPTON, with
$l,2o6, 474 in gold from the Gulf of Mexico.
- The Earl of Stanhope was dead, aged "a
he was nephew Of tho great William Pitt.
His son, Lord Mahon, succeeds him.
Madame Jenny Lind Goldsmith has
been giving concerts at Amsterdam and the
Hague and will revisit England.
- Tho Manchester Peace Society has peti
toned Lork Paine rston to effect an armistice
pending the Vienna negotiations.
Numerous ships of tho Baltic feet are
already assembled at Spithead.