The Portland daily press., 1865-09-15
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FoEnIGN MISCELLANY.

FoEmlGN MISCELLANY. 60
q 1t IS stated that petroleum has been dis
covered in Hanpver, and capital has been pri-
vately subscribed in England to raise the oil
nom the vesis, watch are reported to be launer-
ous.s
The fossil remains of large winged sauri-
an reptile have just been found az Brooke IN
the Isle of Wight.
There is talk off1rther explorationofs Rer-
culan@um. encouraged probably by the success
With. ,v.;rh the researches at PemPeii have
been prosecuted, 81 = tac. 7 atrxeTEI
4t1ASeyen years have now elapsed since the
..,t,re of Lucknow. The second distribution
of prize money is announced TO take place on
the 2ist of this month.
Spite Of, the declarations of the Pope that
he would leave the cholera to Providence, ev-
cry precaution has been taken in Rome; great
cleanliness enforced, and a strict surveillance
exercised over the sale of meat and vegetables
The Lago, or flooding of the Piazza Navona
has also been forbidden this year, lest the ex-
halations mig 1t prove prejudioial to the public
health, and isolated wards have been prepared
in mastof the great hospitals for the. reception
Of any chance cases.
Alexander Aitken, who lately died n Ed
inourgh, enlisted in the Forty-Second Royal
Ii ghlanders in 1898 (seventy-two years age J,
and served with his regiment in anders
when the French conquered Holland. He af-
forwards served under Sir Ralph Abercrombie
in Egypt, and was present at Corunna, Fuentes
donor, Pyrenees, Niyelle, Nive, Orthes, Tou-
louise, the Peninsula and Waterloo. He was
also at the taking of the Island of Minorca.
The Emperor of Russia is, it is said, con-
WINGED that the time has como for adopting
milder measures in Poland than heretofore.
He has .ouni that the great scheme of recon-
struction meets with insurmountable obsta-
eles, and he is disposed to modify it. By way
of siynalizing ths new and more merciful re-
gins, tits rumored that the young Czarewitch
Nicholas will visit the country
A wagon which was passing through the
Rue de Rivoli, Paris, one day last month, was
seen to be suddenly enyeloped in CHASTITY blue
q ,mes. Il, was loaded with phosphorous
which had caught fire from the friction ooca-
stoned by jolting over a rough piece of new
mac0damization. One of the passers-by, who
fastened to render assistance, was himself Gov
cred with the half-melted substance, and Sc
verely burned re- .1
| The old house at Ialeham where DR.. Ar
mold lived with his pupils before his cleo
tionto the Enthusiastically of Rugby, and
which is mentioned by him with such affection
! in the letters published ia Dean Stanley's life
h just been pulled down, and parsonage
erected on the site. ~
o 1.-The rumor with regard to Mr.. Bright and
the frigate Colorado seems to have caused q
great buzzing among the English newspapers
They cannot determine what to make of it..
T "A reports current in Paris that conspir.
acy has been discovered in Berlin, in which are
implicated several of the mostinfiuential PEG.
| pie in the city, Its object was to compel the
King to change his Ministry, and to convoke
the Chambers for the purpose of submitting to
them the settlement Of the Schleswig- Holstein
question. A plan for the reform Of the consti-
tuition, and secret store of arms are also said
to have been discovered.
Belgium has been visited by water-spoul
of extraordinary violence 1t occurred in the
neighborhood of Liege, and has spread ruin fa1
and wide The accompanying gale caught
people mp in the air and dashed them to the
the ground. 1t cut off the topsof some large
trees and felled many other trees to the ground
1t stopped railway trains an overthrow houses
1t was attended by thunder aad floods of rain,
Late news from Paris announces that q
Frenchman, with an Italian named Alberto BIZ
lestrini, proposes to lay at his own risk, an At
lantic telegraph, which win leave the CONT
nent at Cape st. Vincent, and pass by way of
the Canary Islands and Cape Verde to Cape
ST. Rogue, Brazil, the Antilles and New Or
leans. This is quite novel route, and includes
distance by land and sea of over ten thou
sand miles; and if carried out viii connec
Paris with New York across territory belong
ing to France, Portugal, Great Britain, Spain
Brazil and the United States ss
"A ball was given at Brest, during the pres
ence of the French and English fleets, on
board the vessel Vile de Lyons. The lady who
did the honors was the Marchioness di-Chas-
seloup-L ambat, an American. iifln ~ &
ga French engineer is about to construct an
arsenal at Yokohama. The French govern
ment has obtained concession for that pur-
pose from the government of Japan. Also q
new japanese, embassy is about to visit Paris,
whose object is yet secret; but the Pays
states that it has been undertaken for the pur-
pose of visiting the arsenals, and studying the
questions relating to the armament and de-
fence Of forts, as well as to purchase the neces-
sary stores for the arsenal which the Tycoon is
about to establish at Siinonoski. Qsar