The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-15
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

1T is said that the KING of the Belgians has
signifed wish to be buried in England, in the
same tomb with the remains of the Princess
Charlotte. .5-se. ~, ~
@ Lord Brougham is to preside at the annual
meeting of the Social Science Association at
Sheffield, England, in October next. He viii
then be in his eighty-seventh year.
The only surviving brother of Sir David
Wilkie, the painter (whom he has outlived for
four-and-twenty years., died few days ago at
Kensington Gore.
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers
viii hold its annual meeting in Dublin this
year. 1t is a society of very interesting and
important character, as it includes on its roll
achanicians in the world. Mr.. Robert Napier,
the eminent steamship builder, is the president
for this year. The first meeting was held at
Birmingham, where the great George Stephen
son founded the society upon the model of the
London Institution of Civil Engineers.
The Prussian naval station has now been
fully transferred from Dantzic to. KEEL and
great preparations are being made to realize
the idea of the Prussian feet. The higher ma
val authorities have taken up their abode in the
town, and naval academy is announced as in
course of erection.
There are one thousand laborers employed
on the Spanish frontier in cutting the tunnel
for the railway through the Pyrenees.
"A fossil man has just been dug up in bed
of drift, between Veyziatand Oyonnax, France.
The body was found in an inverted posture, but
the bones did not adhere together, but were
brought out one by one The matter will prob
ably be brought before the Academy of Scien-
ces lfsia hst sa sA
lit is reported in Paris that the committee
on prisons has declared itself opposed to the
system of close confinement in cells, and that
M. Devinck has decided to do away with this
system. rs a 8t
-Vesuvius continues to emit fire from it's
principal mouth. 1t is the opinion of compe-
tent persons, however, that there appears to be
no reason to apprehend an imminent complete
eruption. ts ss9
The new journal La Liberte announces
that the Pope, grateful to NJ. Theirs for his
speech against the convention on the 18th OF
September, has asked him to spend few days
with him at Castel Gandolfo, and that NJ Theirs
has accepted the invitation. ~ -a
"A Geographic despatch from Rome an
aounces that great fire had taken place in the
Sciarra Palace. The gallery of pictures was
saved. That valuable collection includes the
pictures ofSVanity and Modesty,' by Leonar-
do da Vinci, and the "Flute Player" by Ra-
phael. 4 gA a3Ifgf
The Sultan is reported to be dangerously
ill-some accounts say he is insane. Should
the Sultan die, he will be succeeded by Murad
Effendi, the eldest son of the late Sultan, un-
less Fuad Pasha should attempt revolution
n favor of theson of the present Sultan. Mu-
rad Effendiisa dissipated, stupid, good-natured
man of twenty-six years.
The long current will of Peter the Great
has been proved forgery. Peter really left a
political testament, which has at last been
found, and which is entirely the opposite of that
hitherto attributed to him.
The Morning Journal of st. Petersburg
states that the gold mines of the Ural have
now been worked since 1917 without intermis-
sion, and promise to furnish ore for many years
yet. The quantity extracted until now has
been 1860 pounds t36 pounds each) or more
than 263 pounds yearly.