, 1865-06-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Aspects Of English and
French Life--Glean-
1ngs of Late
=: News, -
TEE PARLIAMeBTARY ELECTION.
English Fetes and Fates-Births;r
Deaths and Marriages-The
,.Royal Family. -,
The Emperor In nAlseria-Tha ndsgaau
-, Fun$Eal-RArttlan Gosetp-IEss
ee1uucouA Foreign Iscm1,

The summarizes Of news BY the foreign
steamers that reach Us by telegraph, consti-
tute the frame work Of the course OF events
abroad, but remsin to be clothed with the
ftsh and blood items more distinctive and
characteristic Of the actual life Of the peop1e
over the water than the hrst; are likely to be.
The former may have more to do With The
running off the team, and the questions OF
power and policy, but the gossip that mar
be CLEANED from the mails and from foreign
letters Is Ike entering the cars that carry the
passengers. catching their chat aud laughter,
perhaps their lamentations, and recognizing
In them humanity like our own. To
mind alive to It's suggestions, this cleaning
among fresh foreign scraps Of minor news Is
iouf abroad, In miniature. taking the ocean
at bound and sitting down among our En-
Gllsh cousins, or tile rations Of fthecontinsut,
to find in them men and women ike ou,.
se1ves.l~
ENGLAND.
The parliamentary election tcsvor is On the
increase Is summer wakes, and all England
Is being stirred to the core with the great
popular doctrines Of Reform, which are shak.
Ing the solid systems Of Church and A1lsto-
cratic privilege with iomiuous meaning. A
single proof Of the tenacity of the custom.
now endangered Is turniahed In the small item
that few Sundays ago an English clergy
! man .pelformed the ordinary ceremony Of
reading hluaself into sinecnre living at
Merston where the church has LONG AGO f1is.
apps ared. and for over four 1uadrtTd ~ yeaT, ma
there Lave heen literally no iuhabitants in
the parish. The se1yfce was performed under
tent IN the open field, and the Reverend
gentleman bade adfeu to his small audience
trusting that their rext assembling would be
On the Day Of Judgement.
The Vital Statistics OF England 70: the past
three months Of the year, as given By the
Registrar General, present the exhibit Of l0l,.
26s births IN England and Wales, an INCREASE
the official naively eets down to the cheap
ensd rates Of wheat aud potatoes, beef and
mutton. There were IN the samc period 1so,-
a65 marriages. The marriage rate Is
Invariably the highest the last three months
OF the year, while tho birth rate attains ia
acme In the first quarter. The ex,ess Of
! bhths over deaths Is IS GIL, representing the
national increase OF the population, from
| which, however, Is 70 be deducted figure
furnished from emigration statistics of Is 600
lost to the population Of the United King
com by this canse.
! And speaking Of births the association
Gala up the royal household where the
Princess Of Wales proves herself worthy to
follow her MA}csty's example Of zeal In cen.
sus statistics. sha has added to her family
An infant Prince her own second scion. and
sixth gtandchild Of her M,jcsty, which with
her own nine constitute plump aud nromis.
Ing family circle. There Is no DANGER tho
English Crown Will lapse for the waEt OF
direct Eeire. The women Of America will be
interested 70 learn that the charming
Princess mother attended matinee coucert'
gaze au evening dinner party aud Was ID IS
] well as could hs. expected' all within thr
same twent5-fous hours. The Queen's birth
day, her forty slkth, WAS celebrated on Nav
11th with customary honors.
Jenny Lind, the great singer OF other
days. a:d for years happy IN hes lou,es-
ITCHY with Goldschmidt, has Just delighted
British audience at Dudley Gallery, ut two
! guineas ticket, where she sang At q ben, it,
occasion for blind pianist. She sang. with
lively mir from Mozart. SIX thousand charit1
children went 10 St, Paul's 10 their annns1
i concert, at which the blg-wigs looked IN
ten theusand people applauded, and a collec.
ton OF nearly five hundred pounds Ras made
for the charity schools.
The great social aleyent Of London recent
" was the marriage Of a daughter Of the
leading Ro:hschild, t. her cousin Ferdi-
dinand. There are fourteen Barons aud Bar.
onesees in the faulty, aud all were there.
Plceadilly, was blocked with carriages, The
| new palatih pate,nal maua'on w.s : splea-
DID crush, and the leading names IN the En-.
Ieh Peerage were represented. D'Israsii
drank toast to the happy pair In 10 neat
speech. The English Jenkinses having dis
posed Of the leading incidents Of The mar
Ilsre and, ball gire liberal gllmpses of the
| Rothschi!d palace. Among the lavish fra-
! lures 1t Is stated that the balisters OF the
srond s!airrase arc made OF gold and pla.
The Iefusal Of Mrs. Golden to receive
the pension Of 81 800 from the government,
Is consistent with the vitws Of her lament ed
husband, whose whole life mission wes nr,.
test against the. burdens Of place and m rs ns-
tronsGc that crush the English people. II il
EiatlyIcs to know that tie Golden house.
hold DO not need the largess thus rejected.
The sporting season and mania Ia aow
4 uIon England. Following the " "ayensins Of
Waterloo" hya French horse beating an
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