The Portland daily press., 1865-09-05
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
& "a Carmelite monk" says The France,
sswrites from Bagdad, that he has planted in the
Tower of Babel, the ruins of which still exist,
statue Of Notre-Dame des Victories, blessed
by Plus TX. There was on the occasion q
grand ceremony, attended by many Mussel-
mans"
"A correspondent who has seen her, describes
Miss Braddon as "red haired stout, rather
yulgar-looking cockney woman of thirty odd"
and says she has been an itinerant actress, and
known great destitution. The combined sale
of her books in England has been six hundred
thousand copies, in America, two hundred and
fifty thousand, in France and Germany, one
hundred thousand. She has made in the past
four years, about forty thousand pounds, and
funded half of it.
"A singular incident occurred in England
few days before the sailing of the last steam.
or. The catacomb vaults on the west side of
Kensal Green Cemetery were found on fire.
Five collins were destroyed and great many
seriously burnt. The origin of the fire is un-
known. 1t is at Kensal Green Cemetery that
Hood, Leach, Thackeray and other eminent
men are inferred.
The GOODNESS of the English reception of
Abd-el Kadir has excited much comment in
the French journals They find grounds for
complaint in the fact that ill though the Emir
was treated, the English Government sent two
ships to convey the Order of the Bath to the
Bey of Tunis.
The Lloyd of Pesth has received from vi
emma a positive assurance that the royal order
for the convocation of the Hungarian Diet has
already received the sanction of the Emperor,
and has been returned into the Aulic Chan
Gerry, where the nominations approved by the
presidents are ready. 1t has also been inform
ed that the ancient Auhc Chamber of Hunga-
ry will be re-established under the presidency
of an official who will have all the rights which
were formerly possessed by the holder of that
post He will be in some sort a Hungarian
Minister of Finance -
Sir Francis William Austin, G.. c. B., Adj
miral of the Fleet, who had seen much active
service and assisted in some of Sidney Smiths
and Nelson's achievements, has just died at the
age of ninety-two.
Some incidents of the late elections in
France are not destitute of humor. The COM
mune Of Bergeres, according to the Courier
de PAi9s, elected nine women as its municipal
council, with the mayor at the head of the list
He took the hint and resigned.
"A project is on foot throughout Italy for
presenting patriotic testimonial" to Mazzini
Garibaldi has given his adhesion to the propo-
sal, and has issued letter in which he says
II join with all my heart in testimonial of
gratitude from the Italians to the ilustrious
citizen whose whole life does not include an
hour which has not been devoted to Italy, a
pure aspiration for the national cause, an ex-
ample to us all in the path of liberty, and glo-
ry for the great italian family"
-Science-esp especially botany-has just lost
a most accomplished expositor, by the death of
Sir William jackson Hooker, director of the
Royal Gardens at Kew. Deceased was eighty
/ years of age. He was member of nearly all
the learned and scientific societies both upon
the Continent and in America, and knight of
the Legion of Honor. a
DIR. Geist, of Dresden, writes to Berlin
paper-"I have in my possession the pipe
which Prince Butcher smoked at the disastrous
battle Of jena, having received it from my late
father, to whom it was given by my uncle, a
Prussians were retreating to Auerstadt, my I'M
Gle saw the pipe fall from Blucher's sabre-tache,
as the General was leaping over ditch He
Immediately alighted, picked up the pipe, and
carried it to the General, who refused to take
it, testify replying, Since the battle is lost the
pipe may go to the devil. You may keep it,
Geist.' The pipe is a small meerschaum, well
Drowned, with very short stem. A silver
1 chain which attached the bowl to the tube, has
been lost" ~ sA+ iAf
'-Villards, another village in Savoy, has been
| destroyed by fire. Fifty houses, with all the
crops of the present year. were consumed, and
two cottages only are left standing.
The Italian journals much occupied just
discoveries which have lately been made in the
island of Sardinia That island seems to be
very rich in iron, lead, copper, and anthony.
1t also contains large beds of anthracite, of ex-
| cellent quality, and good deal of Ignite
The Paris papers announces the death of NJ
Buchez, one of the most sincere Liberals of
France. He was the creator of that famous
society, La Charbonnerie, which was one of the
most powerful levers brought into play against
the Restoration. In 1926, M. Buchez joined the
sect of ST. Simon, and was one of the most
active contributors to the Productes,r, The or
| gan of the new doctrine. He was the author
of clever work entitled Parliamentary His
tory of the French Revolution go