The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-22
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

We read that the Chinese Government has
commissioned French officer to establish
mint at Pekin, at which Chinese coins are to
be made, after the model of those of France
Various reports in the newspapers give the
impression that Alfred Tennyson the Laureate
is wasting away with mortal disease. His
| American publishers, Messrs. Tcknor & Fields
have received recent letters from him to the
effect that he is in his usual health. The re-
ports to the contrary are unfounded.
The walls of Rome are in MANY places so
antiquated and decayed that they fall to ruin
of themselves. On the 18th, between the
Porta San Pado and the Porta San Sebas-
tiano, the wall toppled down to an extent OF
thirty metres.
The amusement of picnic party in the en-
virons of Rome was recently somewhat dis
turbed by patrol of gendarmes, who informed
them that the brigands were lurking about
and had just killed young farmer who could
not furnish 1000 scudi ransom.
"A singular ceremony has been recently
performed at Brussels This was formal as
signment of the heart of the late Antonio
Wiertz, the celebrated Belgian historical pain
ter, to deputation from the artists birthplace
His body and his heart were embalmed sepa-
rately, the former placed in leaden coffin and
another of oak, and the latter in bag of gutta
percha, tied with rose-colored ribbon, and de-
posted in a leaden box. All these details were
duly certified by three distinguished doctors OF
medicine, professor of chemistry, in the pres
ence of the Belgian Ministers of the interior
and OF Foreign Affairs. A large number OF
eminent persons assembled in the studio Of the
deceased to witness the transfer of the heart OF
the artist by his executor, NJ. Potvin, to the dep
uties from Dinant
The brigands are still making trouble in
the Pontifical States. A recent engagement
between them and the gendarmes ended with
the flight of the brigands and the death of their
chief Later in the day the gendarmes discov-
cred the bodies of five persons frightfully mu-
tilated, who had been captured by the brigands
and held in expectation of a heavy ransom.
This was at Carpineto, in the province OF
Villetri.
The influence of Signor Ri taxi in the
italian Ministry is daily becoming more pro-
nounced.
Great excitement has been produced at
Altoona by the arrest of the editor of the Schles-
scig-Holstein Gazette DIR. May, by the Prussian
authorities. DR.. May is a Prussian subject
but has been also warm partisan of the Duke
of Augustenburg. The arrest is generally re-
garded as the first of series Of prosecutions
against the supporters of that Prince and it is
also believed that the object of Selling Dr.
May first was to obtain possession of his papers
and SO to implicate the other supporters of the
|. Duke.
Prince Napoleon is travelling quietly in
ireland, the only events of his journey which
the newspapers have yet been able to chronicle
being that he has inspected the international
Exhibition and that he has purchased a GUAM
tity Of Irish poplin at a Dublin shop.
"A curious case has just been tried in Paris.
The Countess de Nacquard, lady fifty years
of age, and formerly possessed of an income of
50 CO0f year, was charged with a conspiracy
to defraud number of tradesmen, in company
with commission agent and dressmaker
The prisoners were all found guilty, and the
countess was sentenced to three years impris-
onment
In French paper we find the statement
that Wurtemburger has swum across the
Lake of Constance from Romanshorn to Fried
rchshaven-a distance of three leagues and q
half. For the sake of precaution he was fol-
lowed by boat, but he found no need of call
ing upon the rover for help. The distance was
accomplished in six hours and twenty minutes.
This, if true throws the feats of Leander and
Lord Byron into the shade
"A man in England was so bent ON COM
hitting suicide, that, no other means being at
hand, he cut his throat with an old shovel, and
then battered his head with brick
The famous rose-tree planted Thousand
years ago by Louis lie Debonnaire, in tie
eastern choir of the cathedral at Hildersheim,
has been in particularly fine bloom this season,
and looks fresher and greener than ever Two
shoots, which sprang up from the knotty mil
lenial roots of the tree in 1868, haveS attained
already the height of the roof
The Prussian police have commenced their
attacks upon the trade societies by ordering
their President TO leave Berlin and confiscating
their newspaper.