New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
IT, MARRIAGE or THE Princess ALIcE.-The
I ,i pr,,ss;on Nc,c Ga.ate learns from source
ortby of credit that TIE statement az TO projected
marriage between the eiedtry Prince Lou,s OF Hesse
Dsrmstadt and the Princess Alice Of England Is well
founded and that the recent Visit OF the TWO ies.aa
Princes 10 London relative TO the proposed unon
Prince Louis was born in 1897 and is heir prosump-
tive TO the throne of the Grand Duke of Hesse.
ADuEL IL BERLN.-A letter from Berlin, in the
Paris ConstitutioHnel has the following: 1.-The gen
eral subject of conversation here is duel which took
place on the 2Oth between the young Count Henckel
De Donnersmark and the brother Of q lady to whom
he had been engaged: The Count received ball in
the body, and now lies dangerously vi at Aix-la-
Chapele. The cause of the meeting Is said to be
marriage broken off between the lady whom the
Count had known in Paris, and who had even accom-
panied him into Siesia. short time before the day
liked for the union, the Count received letter con-
tanning disclosures which induced him to give up the
connection. The parents of the lady sent for her
brother from America. This latter is said to have
treated medical man who was on the ground with
great brutality because be uttered an exclamation OF
grief and pity when he saw the Count fall When the
latter was struck, his pistol falling from his hand
went of and was nearly woundipg one OF his seconds
HAWAIIAN CRINIsAL Law.-The draft Of a new
penal code for Bavaria which has been many years IN
preparation has Just been published at Munich, and it
makes these notifications in the existing legislation
No sort of rehabilitation be accorded by the courts
and tribunals The admission Of extenustng cir cun-
stances nterdcted to the jury and to courts and trib
by theory and is proved psrnicous in practice
Cellular imprisonment is not to be allowed The maxi
mum of fines for oenses 70 be raised from oOO norins
n 5fOf to 1000 forms e 600f) For petty ofenses, OF
7sOf) fine and three months detention, the punish,
ment is henceforth not to exceed $50 forms fine and
six weeks imprisonment.
AN EARTHeuAKE IN THE CAUcAsUs.-The Couco-
sus, Russian journal gives strange account 9i an
earthquake in the district Of Kouba, near village
called Zsrgovo, situated at the foot OF mountain
range about twenty miles from the Caspian Sea- Inc
result has been the complete destruction OF nearly 2oO
acres of productive land This event IS ssid by the
journal named above, to have been witnessed by only
one individual, a herdsmen named kadyr Ranlm, em-
ployed in tending oxen on the spot Inc man states
that as he was sitting under tree on the SIDE OF
hill watching his cattle on the plain below, ne was
suddenly alarmed by most extraordinary movement
of the ground under his feet In his terror he ran
down tee HILL and when he looked back he saw the
trees hurled into the air and the surface OF the ground
heayipg into hlocks filing the air with cloud Of
duet He further declares that there was no wind
nor any suberranean noise. The conyulsions OF the
earth must have been confined to very limited space
for the inhabitants Of the village only four miles dis
tapt knew nothing of what had occurred till informed
nv the berdsman and could hardly believe their eyes
when they saw the devastation effected In 30 short
time.
MINISTER. OF THE PROVISIONAL GovERNMEST Oh
SrclLY-The Turn Gazette oDtans the following no
tiee of the Ministers Of the Provincial Government es
tablished by Garbaldi In Sicily
Baron Pisani, Foreign Affairs aud Commerce,
well known for his rigid probity and the hrmness o.
his counsels He the son of the celebrated founder
of the Lunatic Asylum at Palermo, an establishment
| which excites the admiration of all Europe he was
a Deputy in the Parliament Of 1915, and was at tna
period sent on mission 70 Turin, where he acquired
general esteem. he was at the head Of the Secre
| Committee of Palermo, which prepared the present
revolution.
M Crispi, Interior, Genoese was also deputy il
the Parliament of ls4S. After wandering aboat IRON
hn lanAn
Sicily lat Winter and combined the means for intro
duci1g arms and ammunition into the Island
Colonel Orsini, war; is intelligent oficer who
WAS brought up at the Military College at Naples LII
lS4s he directed the siege operations against MesSna
and afterward took service in the Ottoman army Ht
ACCOMPANIED Garibaldi in the expedition OF Marsaia
and commanded the artillery at Corleone which tool
the royal troops in the rear when they were faiine
back on Palermo.
Nor. UQdulipa, Public instructor and Worship, pos
sessed great authority in the Parliament OF 1915 par
ticulariy ol religious questions, and he was Inemoe
of the Revolutionary Committee OF that period Ate
the reaction of lS49 he was confined in the Fort O.
Coloubara He is the author OF paper on Monnaie
Puniques," which received prize from the frenci
/ Institute.
himself known in lS4S by a remarkable medical work
He formed part Of the mixed Neapolitan and Stellar
/ Committee which ordered the movement at Naples II
lS48 AS the aceomplce OF Settembrln, In the famou
protest of the people of the Two Scilies he was ex
lied and went TO France. After the restoration o
1919 he excited the suspicion of the Liberals, but wa
tolerated and hattered by the Government Ills let
tiers during the last two years proved that he skiul
/ perseyered in his liberal views.
Nj Peranni, Finance, formerly clerk IN the Treas
ury was maintained in the service OF the revolution
isiS on account of his liberal opinions. After tn
Bourbon restoration he was raised to the functions
+ Treasurer-General and acquired wel-merited popu
larity His present appointment is guaranty for or
der and stability in the management Of the finances
no trifng matter in time of crisis and under pro
visional Government.