The Portland daily press., 1865-11-28
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.


Sir Charles Eastlake, who has been Ior
SINE time i'll in Milan, is slowly recovering.
king George of Greeceis getting unpopu-
lar with his neople. They wish Count Dam
neck. his Danish tutor, sent away, and the king
wishes to retain him. .-..a--.s@z-..-.
.N;neteen apprentices working in q London
hottie factory have been imprisoned for start
inc strike and following it up with little III
OF.
Its formally stated that the Spanish gov
eminent is about to profit by the recently-in-
augurated alliance with Faance, to lay the
foundation of a commercial treaty between the
two countries, which will open up a new field
for Spanish tide, hitherto much cramped in
its foreign relations. ,,.,,,. g..
The death of an eminent sculptor, M.
Charles ACKNOWLEDGMENT, is announced from
Paris. He was born in1792, and was pupil of
sCartenier. In 1917 he obtained the Roman
prize. Several of the statues at Versailles, and
naiad at st. Cloud, are by him. In 1881 he
was made member of the Institute, and in
1887 knight of the Legion of Honor.
IAN alarming accident lately occurred at
Deepcar station, on the Manchester and Shelf
field Railway, which resulted in severe eye
cut to Sir Edwin Landseer and some internal
injuries to other passengers. Sh"'itA@4 90
The King and Queen of Portugal are much
blamed for DESERVING their capital during the
cholera, and Charioari puts this epigram into
their mouths GAS the reigning epidemic pre-
| walls in our dominions let it reign in our
| stead" fltflBiItL ~
I The Emperor of France has ordered a sci
entific mission to explore the Cambodia from
| the source of the sMei-kou to Thibet, where all
traces of the river disappear. The country
which it traverses has hitherto been unexplor-
ed, and is unknown to modern geographers, al
though certain ruins scattered over it attest the
fact that high degree of civilization once ex-
| listed in this deserted region.
The recent subsistence of the waters of the
Seine has revealed number of curiosities ly-
ing in its muddy bed. Among other things, a
double-faced seal, engraved with the arms Of
Catherine de Medicis, was picked up beneath
the Point Neuf, and near the lie de la Cite was
found large Ratchet of black polished stone
of singular make. The most curious discov.
cry was, however, a small copper case contain
ing portrait of Mile de la Valliere, painted in
oil on metal. This work of art, which had re-
NAMED for century and half at the bottom
of the river, has undergone but little alteration
the carmine only had turned black 9is4n
One of the editors Of the Constitutional
has bought the little place called Mont Louis
to which Rousseau retired after his quarre
with Madame Lepenay. He wrote emile" il
; this house, and his cabinet and table are still
preserved there. tc'JoAtG lJli4l
The King Of Sweden is probably the mos
democratic of all the monarchs in Europe. HI
is popular poet, pays unceremonious calls t.
the houses of his subjects without regard t,
their social position, and often accepts invita-
tions to dinner from feminent merchants a
Stockholm. Of course, the nobility of Swedel
find him vulgar, and avoid the Court, which i
not sufficiently aristoeratic for them.