The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-13
FOREIGN JOTTINGs.

The consumption of caveudish says the same
authority, is at present confined in England "to
the upper ten thousand"
In the year ending December 1868, tue reve-
nue. derived by the British Government on
37O36,S0l pounds of leaf tobacco. was thirty mil
lions of dollars. SO says London journal.
F-The total circulation of the notes of the Bank
of England, the private banks, and joint stock
banks OF the United Kingdom was on the 23d of
July last about Sl35, 100000.
"A part of the stone ruins recently found on
the plains of Troy are to be used in rebuilding
that part of Constantinople not long since de-
stroyed by fire.
The death-rate in the towns of Scotland is
now on the increase, according 10 the last report
of The Registrar General. IL is not because there
is any epidemic for the mortality of all diseases
is on the increase.
1t is not cotton alone which is high-prced
abroad, but silk is very dear, so that the manu-
facturers of Lyons complain loudly. They also
suffer by the high prices they are compelled to
pay for labor.
The London Economist says that the only
form of belief with which the English ten-pound
voters heartily sympathize is the Calvlnistic, and
it is the only one to which the cultivated class
shows any especial dislike
"A London swindler, recently arrested for
practising his arts on an unsuspecting German
merchant was found to have on his person coun-
terieit lorins "and Confederate notes" both of
about the same value.
There was great time recently in the island
| of Jersey. A lecturer on the mass and indul-
| gences was driven from his place of lecturng by
| an excited Irish mob. Whercupon on the next
occasion the police, military, and Governor of the
island turned out TO protect the speaker, who had
| an audience OF fifteen hundred people, and eX-
| pressed his obligations to them for permitting
| free speech in the isle Of Jersey.
The same correspondent is authority for the
| statement that Madame GIu!ia Bellanti Pccoo-
mini the last descendant of the historical family
| of the Balanu of Sienna, has given to the
archives Of Tuscany sixty autograph letters OF emf
nent PEOPLE of the fifteenth century; twenty Of
them are autographs OF Eneas Silyio, PiccoOmin
| who afterwards became Plus ii.
Louis Napoleon's Life of Cesar says the
Paris CORES pondent Of the Publishers Circular Is
| again laid aside by its author for an indefinite
period. The forms Of so much of il az Is printed
| are chained together at the Imperial Printing
| Office, and one man keeps the key aud Is re-
| sponsible for hem. The author is very nervous
| al out the work, and he is afraid of some proof
sheets getting into publicity before the work is
| ready for publication.
The Bishop of Rpou, DR.. Bckersteth having
| To COnsecIate battle-ground near Wakefield,
found there no train ~ the station from
whence be was to proceed in time TO allow him
| TO perform his engagement. He asked permis-
sion TO ride on the engine OF q goods train which
came along, and it was granted. So agreeable
| did he make himself to his companions that the
driver said If he was a specimen of the bishops
| he shouldn't mind having one on the engine with
him every day.
Tho following curious passage is taken from
recent letter TO the London Daiiy Ne,os from its
| correspondent in Brrln:-
| Every one asks how Bismark has met the ex-
| penses Of the Scheswig war. There are no traces
| of loan, none of the signs of whicG could
| be concealed had the minister had recourse to
| large credit. Not only Chase and Fessenden
but FOuld himself might take a lesson from Bis
k N no
| TO Bonrse or Chamber, and yet has collected and
marched large armies to great military and po-
| liucal result"
"A series of papers addressed by NM. Da-
vAnne and GiTard to the Academy of Sciences on
| the subject Of photography, make some curious
revelations with regard 10 the waste Of precious
metals in the operation. For instance, the silver
| alone which is employed for photographs in
| Paris amounts to several millions of francs Now
as only per cent of the silver employed remains
| on the photograph, % per cent. will continue to
| be lost unless some method be found for recover
| ing it. NM. Davanne and Grard, who make this
startling announcement propose that plates of
copper be put into the argentterOus liquid,
| whereby in the course OF three or four days the
silver will be precipitated in spongy state.
AT public meeting recently held at Birming-
| ham, the present condition of the Waldenses In
| Italy was discussed. The Reverend Pastor
Pilette, of Nice, said there were fifty missions
among these people, all prospecting. The King
favors them, and they are gaining strength.
| Great efforts are, however, made 10 win them
| from their faith, and this one of the methods
| according 10 the Pastor -" In Pinerota there
| now exists L'HOspital de Catechumetle-the hos
| pitai of the Catechumen, kept by monks and
| priests, where any Waldensen, young or old, may
| 60. He will find nice, comfortable room a good
/ table, and everything he could wish for aud
nothing TO do. He can settle down there and live
/ as long as he pleases, doing nothing and living
cheaply, on the sole condition that he listen for
/ few moments TO the teaching OF a priest every
day; so that there is a standing temptation TO the
Waldenses 10 give up the religion Of their fathers
] and become Roman Catholics"