The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-09
Foreign Gossip.
!, pound

|
The freedom of action allowed TO
Christian women, says the London
Reader, still strikes the true Asiatic ag
ineXplicable The Dnydnprdkdsh, Il
Marathi paper, publishes q letter carica-
| turing European ideas on this subject
| The writer, who signs himself Ghost
| is made to say that 1.-THE Queen is going
to issue the following commands regard
! ing the Conduct of husband and wife to-
| wards each other: Every husband must
bow twelve times to his wife the first
thing in the morning. Next he should
fetch water and battle her, and having
washed her clothes, must cook for the
family. After that he should seat her
in becoming manner, and serve her
food. He is then TO give her pad0, and
then care for his own stomach. The
wife in her turn must kick him twelve
times early every morning, make him
work at the usual drudgery and go to
his office. Women are tperfect liberty
to behave as they like, and are to be full
ly authorized to use the rod towards
their husbands
A negotiation was lately opened with
Nile. Patti to sing in the Baden concert
rooms this season. She asked 81 200 for
six performances. The director offered
1000, which was Indignantly refused.
subsequently, the reigning praraa donna
announced her intention of giving
concert at Baden-Baden for her own
benefit on September 4th, but she forgot
that there is not in the place a single
room large enough to hold such an audi.
| ence as she would like to sing to, except
those belonging to the gambling estab'
| lishment, whose offer she refused.
Thereupon, NJ. Benazet, the enterpris.
ing king of the metropolis of roulette,
seeing his advantage, wrote to La Patti,
the following magnanimous letter:
Mademoiselle You desire to give
concert on Septelnber4. On that day the
Grand Salon de Conversation, duly illu-
minated and adorned with flowers, will
be at your service, gratis. myself shall
pay for a place to hear you.-BENAZET."
| Englishmen have mania for ascend,
ingthe ICY mountains of the Alps. They
seem TO seek foolish death among the
avalanches and in abysses, and three
tourists have just been gratified in that
particular. They aud their guides tied
| themselves together to descend diff
cult part of the Matterhorn; one slipped
and pulled two others after him, the
guides managing to resist the strain.
The three unfortunates bumped from
1
Were dashed to pieces.
At the recent fire in the British MI.
scum the Anglo-Saxon manuscript
known as Pope Gregory the Greats
/" Pastorale," given by Alfred the Great
to Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbu-
ry, was destroyed. Several other man
uscripts were injured.
Bishop Colenso has commenced anac-
| ton against Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. HUB
bard, as trustees of the Colonial Bishop
| RIGS Fund, for the payment of his salary;
and the Acknowledgement has been re-
| tanned for the defence.
! As showing the value of land in the
city Of London, it is noted that a piece
of land occupying site of two thousand
five hundred feet in Cannon street, at
the corner of Swithin's Lane, was lately
sold for ESQ, 800
Last year in England and Wales the
profits arising from the labor of prison.
ers amounted to G34,67S 1ss. lid. The
average annual cost of each prisoner
was e23 Is. 1Od. The total annual charge
was e433, 015.
Lord Brougham is TO preside at the an
nual meeting of the Social Science Asso~
citation, at Sheffield, England, in Octo-
Der next. He will then be i'll 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.
1t is said that the King of the Bel
gians has signified desire to be buried
in England, in the same tomb with the
remains of the Princess Charlotte.