, 1864-11-11
FOREIGN 1TEM9.

Since the announcement that Florence Wis
to be made the capital Of Italy, property
there bus enhanced IL value. As au instance
It msy be mentioned that two days before
the news of the transfer Of the capital had
been spread, Turtnese banker hid entered
Into contract with FIorentfne gentleman
for bu5&uE hou6e. The owner had asked
5000 sterling, and the banker had offered
n coo. Whilst they were negotiating, the
great Jews reached Florence, and the bank
er who wished to have the house, ras
obliged to pay ELI, 600 fol 1t. 4 small room
which let for ten francs per month, has no Il
gone up to sixty francs at once, Florence
can NJ longer be called the cheap est as n ell
as the lovellest city in Europe.
The municipal junta Of Palermo has caused
Gartpald1's portrait to be hung up in the room
In which the general at the time OF his die.
tatorshlp, USED to give audience.
The principal etreer and squares Of Alex
and1ia, Egypt, are to be lighted With gas.
1t will take two years to com 2lete fae re-
moVal of the capital OF Ira1y from Turin to
the cabinets Of the ministries viii ouly be
removed from Turin at present. The arch
ives. the Offices Of the different branches Of
the military and civil administrations will
follow. Turin therefore, will not feel tha
shock OF the trans er so suddenly as It had
been supposed.
The proposed monument on the field OF
battle OF Afagent&, In homer of the French
generals, officers and soldiers killed on the
mem orable day OF the 4th Of June, 1859. is
nearly completed The masonry Work Ia
finished, and the bronze ornaments in the
interior Of the chapel are affixed. The nam.
Of ths men who fell in the battle are to be
monument is nnished the commissioners
who directed tue works will inauRurata it
nth great solemntty.
The insurance companies of Great Britain
have all united in q determination refusing
to pay for any Of the damages resulting
from the recent great gunpo Hder explosion
ut Filth
1t Ia proposed to turn large portion OF
Carlisle Cast1e into warehouses and manu-
factCIies; but the citizens have sent in q
petition to the government protesting
agsdtst the desecrattou Of the ancient for
treas.
To avert inundations in France, the re-
planting Of trees on the naked decliritie5 OF
mountains is strongly urged.
a lew weeks ago the annual service took
place for the repose OF the soul Of Napoleon
uI.'s mother, Queen Hortense, who Is bur
led IN The small chapel of Rueil, next to bis
grandmother, Empress Josephine. Tbs
marble monuments he has erecte& to their
memory are simple and very beautiful
The head Of jacques Iatour, recently exc
cuted Tor MURDER, has been dug no bT per-
miesioh Of the Prefect Tor the purpose Of
scienutc e1periments. 1t was already in
an swf1l state OF pntrefactlon. After the
doctors have done With It, it Is to be depos-
tied In the m useum Of the to wn OF Fox.
At II. Madras last ascension In his big
balloon at Brussels the King Of the Belxians
and the ROYAL family we're present. Before
leaving the presence of royalty NJ. Nadar
plessltsd the King and tho Dnke and the
Duchess of Brabanr with three copies of his
book, "Ths Memoirs ofthe Geant.''
Queen Maria Christaiu Of Spain is about to
return to that country. She has long been
subjected to great mistortnues, political aud
personal. She bas lost her properly. and,
what is ssid to have still more eenaiblY at:
f5cted her, has lost tue children who shared
her exile and misfottuQe. She ia understood
devotion; and 1t is felt in Madrid BY all par
ties that now the circumstances OF the ma.
tton have go mnch altered as almost to pre-
lude the possibility Of her exercising nug ac-
tive political influences In the court, 1t is
not decent to deprive the daughter On the
throne Of society OF the mother who eontrI-
/ buted go largely to secure it for her.
Nothing could be more magnificent than
the vintage has been this year in all parts Of
France. In the wine districts there vas q
supe1abundanceo Of grape. Theproprietors OF
viney ards were actually puzzled to znow
what to do, their usual supply Of casks hav-
ing long been filled, while the coopers, al
unable to supply the demand.
In Paris alone there are at this moment no
less than eixty thousand men who have no
other religion or creed than that Of tD'riklsme
or as we call it, 'splrltualism." There the
belief ssat s as 81 Ss s'sf%
its disciples, its prleste, its AFFAIR.", DC, as
well as its papers, reviews, publications of
all eorta, with editors and booksellers Of its
own.