The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-12-16
FURTHER FOREIGN ITEMS.

FURTHER FOREIGN ITEMS.
[from English papers received by The Iersial
The y the Persia announces the death Of Adrni,
raj Lord Lyons Henry Count Boulay de Ia Meurtic John
Joshua Lord PROXY heir to the earldom Carysfot and
Baron Plotlo, Bishop Of Brcslau.
Frau Ida Pfeifer's Journey to Madas ,scar'' will be
published according to the last will of the late author
by her son. Her Oscar Pfeier who lives at Rio Janero
highly esteemed pianiste
The fun raj of the late Mr. Robert Owen took place Mt
Newtown, Montgomeryshire Nov. 22d. The inhabitants
testified their respect for tue deceased by closing their
shops; many of them followed the remains
Miss Burdet Coutts having presented lifeboat 10 the
seamen of Sunderland it was the 25th of November
taken in procession through the streets of the town by
the tars, and placed in life boat house built by
public subscription.
A rumor has been current that the Emperor OF Rus
sia will positively in the SPRING pay visit to the court
OF France but before doing he will return that which
the Prince Regent of Prussia made him at Warsaw.
The design Of Lord Murray to erect in Edinburgh a
monument to his ancestor, the poet Allan Ramsay is
approaching realization 1t is to be executed in marble
OF quality similar to that Of Sin Walter Scotts statue in
the Edinburgh monument.
Hon. Frederick Bruce who has bce, appointed The
first British ambassador to China under the new treaty
Is brother of Lord Elgin He was attached to Lord
Astburtons special mission to Washington in 1912.
Sir Bulwer Lytton the novelist has been re elected
Rector of the University Of Glasgow by the students
His ml rity Lord Shaesbury was small but that
which lac obtained Mr.. Charles Dickens was yery
large
An attempt to poison Madame Ristori mentioned in
letter from Parma This viilanous act took place at
Reggie, III the Modeneso territory, where she PLAYED n
part in which poisoned bowl was to be qualfed Gen
aino poison had been infused into the mimic dra,,ht
OF helebore which the acuteness of her senses naye her
warnings not to swallow.
The historian Micholet has published his lonr,Iooked
for work, entitled u 4nqour it is semi philosophical
dyesed Of the bitterness of his last book, Priests Womo
and fdee, and taking wide range of the mutual rela-
tions of sex 1t has already extensive demand and
IS somewhat higher in its tone than Balzcs Phpsooqe
da Afasege
The following intelligence is from private letter dated
at Paris, November rs sgIhe Empress created great
sensation at compiegue last week by appearing In "a
dress without crnone very small at the top Of the
SKIRT with the immense oldshioned hoop the bot
tom Next year the ladies will be wearing the dress of
the old pictures of the days Of Louis XIV"
Mr. Albert Smith arrived 10 LONDON on sunday. The
zs after an absence OF loss thar four months, during
which period he haa been y, Canton and back Fe Is In
exceient heaita ana its Before leaving Hong Kong
he aaVe seo' from his Mont Blanc entertainment
~ WIG ne6t of the native poor and realized for them
wards Of f2, 900. The result was that he was seized
upon by the Chinese and borne in trumpha procession
round the city.
Marie Tagon the most graceful Of dancers, has gone
to Paris from her Villa the Lake Of Como She has
been induced to revisit the of her former trumphs
by the praises bestowed by portion of the French press
dbmants Md lie Livry, who selected la Syphide for
her first appearance and asserted by those veracios
prints to equal the great bna SO she went to PATHS
judge for herself The ladies Of the corps du ba in
vited her to grand banquet, which took place on the
10th. Only few privileged members of the sterner
We're present.
Lola Montez has arrived safely at Galway The Vindi-
Gator OF that place. says she received with every at
ten ton and respect by the officials and few friends
who went on board tho arrival of the vessel She
purposes delivering lectures at Dublin, Cork Limerick
Waterford Belfast and other places America, its
People and its Social Institutions " and she says she
means to talk about them they are but not they
have been nisrepresented By Mr. Dickens, Mr.. Mac
kay Mr. Ihackeray and Others who have already donc
them
tale Of tight boots is told in Madrid paper Mr.
Morphy Spanish lawyer OF celebrity, few weeks ago
went to dine with Mr. Buchanan, the English minister
He had put apair of boots tight beyond the usual
powers OF endurance and chatting with his host who
little dreant OF the voluntary msryrdom to which his
guest had subjected himself Violent inflammation su-
pervened. followed by gangrenc, which only few days
after the dinner carried the unfortunate gentleman to his
grave
American artists busy at Rome. Ives is modelling
his Udae and his group Excelsior the youth and maiden
from Longfellow poem, now being cut in marble
Hazlene OF Philadelphia, is modelling his Laprorimtoys
Broom of Philadelphia, is modelling small group as n
study Brown, that brilliant painter of landscapes has
on his easel several excellent paintings studies made
during the summer near the city Wittrdgc, Of Cncrl
natl, has "a quvor full ofaTows in his Italian sketches
made the past summer; from Castel Gandolfo 10 Ole
he has taken them down. and shows an aptr,-
pation of Italian Nature true us he has displayed in
his Swiss and German views Williams Of Rhode Island
is at work right manfuly large painting Ruins Of
the Claudan Aqueuct his original treatment of tho
subject strikes one at correct You stand
directly beneath the Iitancsque ruins the first line Of
arches and the eye follows their broken line to the dis
tant mountains bounding the horizon.
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