The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-01
FOREIGN MISCELLANY

- AZ 70 so1Ieu IA w arSaW tnat the Russian
government intends to divide Poland into ten
governments.
"A new submarine cable is to be laid short
ly between Sicily and Algeria and MARSHA and
Biserta. Italy will thus be directly connected
with Africaby two Geographic lines, establish
ing Immediate Communication with Tunis and
Algeria.
"A society for providing life-boats and estab-
fishing stations along the German shores has
been founded atlength at Bremen.
The King of Siam has received the cross Of
the Legion of Honor.
The Birmingham Post asserts that, in spite
of all the opposition which the company has re-
ceived, the Great Western Railway viii esfab-
fish its works at Oxford, as at first intended
The same paper says that this COMPANY has
forbidden any interference with the voting &c
their employees at the elections
The petty German Governments prefer seq
ing their goods shut out from the Italian mar
ket rather than conclude commercial treatv
with Victor Emmanuel and recognize him as
the King of a legitimate realm by the act. Won
Bismark is in favor of recognition.
"A national Russian exhibition of ind,strv
hasjust been opened in Moscow by priests and
ministrants There were no speeches. Init
substantial luncheon after mass. The exbihi-
ton comprehends fifteen thousand articles con-
tributed by eight hundred and ninetv-six er-
hibitors. As curiosity, the papers mention a
large portrait of Peter the Great, made up of
many-colored lucifer matches, contributed bv
Warsaw firm
Rosa Bonheur engaged to paint a pieture
for man in Paris, and failed to keen lssr en-
gagement. The man brought suitin the courts,
and the case went against the artist, who is con-
demned in costs, and ordered to deliver the pic
ture within six months, or to pay four thousand
francs damages "a
Mr.. Adams and his daughters who have
been for some time absent in Italy, chiefly at
Florence, have just returned to the United
States Legation. Rents have risen at the new
Italian capital to such degree, and houses are
in such demand, that they are taking them
ready made, constructed of wood and iron
from London sd gseS M9SstN
London is crazy over the cabinet pictures
of a new French artist, Missonnier. An Eng
lish paper mentions the sale of one of the paint
ings, "no bigger than the top of your hat" for
thirteen nundrod gulneaS. tf
"A letter from Paris has the following: "a
gentleman connected with one of the legations
at Pekin, an accomplished Sinologue. made a
close translation of Longfellows Psalm of Life.
which was then inscribed, as the manner of the
country fayors, on. the door-posts of his house.
There, the calm, pure wisdom and beauty of its
sentences greatly impressed Heaven and the
Celestial Empire forgive me but have forgot
ten the name-it ends in 'ang' or 'ing'l x. Y,
who thereupon put it into pure Chinese poet
zeal form of the last polish, and so writing it
out with his own hand on a beautiful fan, sends
it as a courteous gift to bis brother bard at
Cambridge 1t ispleasant for all of us admir-
ers of that charming poem to know that thou
sands of Pelrin folks stop to read and admire it,
too, as they pass Mr. Wade's door," So.
| Count de Chambord, the legitimate Bour-
bon heir to the throne of France, is devoting his
leisure moments in Venice to the study of the
questions involved in the relations between cap
ital and labor. His speculations do not seem
to be remarkably wise, but the mere fact that
the representative of Bourbon legitimacy, the
man who claims by divine right the title of
Henry V. Of France, should devote his thoughts
to the good of the working classes, shows that
the world has moved since the time of that
Bourbon princess who, on being told that the
poor had no bread, innocently asked why they
not eat cake. s, - /, IS .,.s..E
Prince Humbert, eldest son of King Vic
tor Emmanuel, is dangerously ill.
An Antwerp newspaper says: @We have to
announce piece of news which will be receiv-
ed with veritable satisfaction by our towr
principally by the inhabitants of the
is that Antwerp is about to becom
nent station for American vessels Or
may expect to see arrive at an early day the
magnificent frigate Niagara, and she will be
followed by the Sacramento and the Colorado"
Emma, the youthful widowed queen of the
Sandwich Islands, has arrived at Southamp-
| ton.se
The town of Carlsbad, capital of the prov
ince of Wermeland, in Sweden has been al
| most entirely destroyed by fire. 1t consisted Of
600 houses and possessed 1900 inhabitants, but
nothing is left on the site except the hospital
the prison, and the bishops residence. The peo-
pie have lost everything, and are suffering very
seriously.
France is likely to distance England in 9th
er races besides the one just won by the Gladia-
| teur. Some French manufacturers have made
contracts for supplying and English railroad
with the railroad iron and locomotives, at lower
rates and of better workmanship than the Eng
fish. The fact has caused sensation in manu-
| featuring circles.
The italian Government has long been &C.
cupied with different railway projects for i'm
| proving the communication between the Cts
and the Sub-Alpine Kingdom. The choice lay
between three routes,-by Splugen, by Lukma-
nier, and by the st, Gothard. The Government
has decided on the last, by which communica-
tiop will speedily be opened with Switzerland
and the Valley of the Rhine
Marlborough House, the residence of the
Prince of Wales, took fire the other day. and
his Royal Highness astonished all the snobs Of
London by throwing off his coat and hat and
fighting fire as if he had all his life been used to
run with the machine" Tits just possible that
the chance of little manly work was positive
relief to the young man.
The boy-emperor of China has been i'll with
the scarlitina.F He is now recovering. The EN-
press-mother went on foot for nine DAYS. morn
ing and evening, to the Grand Temple of the
Dragon, to implore Providence to spare her son.
The explorations of Mr.. Baker, the African
traveller, whom Mr. Spoke left at the Upper
Nile, have been crowned with success and he
has discovered the second and main source of
the Nile in Lake Albert Nyanza, north latitude
two degrees and seventeen minutes. This is
thoughtto be the little Luta Nzige spoken of bv
Speke. oi3 SOL laesA D4da tAA4
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