Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-03-17
FOREIGN ITEMS.
Foreign Gossip and news.


-Maximilian- has had his salary cat
down to So, 900 per day.
The late heavy snow storm in Eng
land was the most destructive of any for
the last 40 years among the frs and ev-
ergreen trees. 1t is estimated that the
weight of snow on the trees was an ave.
rage of three pounds to the square foot.
Hundreds of fine trees have been
either totally wrecked or sadly mang-
led.
In consequence of the alarm about
the pork disease, the pig dealers OF Wen
ma have telegraphed to their agents In
Servia and Hungary not to send them
any more animals for the present, as
most of the greatest hotels have sup-
pressed all the preparations of pork in
their bills of fare.
A recent number of the Calcutta
Gazette contains an account of an @ro-
lite, which fell at Shergotty on the 25th
of August last. A native, who witness
ed its fall, states that about 9 a. M, a
stone fell from the heavens accompanied
by very loud report, burying itself in
the earth knee-deep, and at the same
time the sky was cloudy and of a murky
color, the air calm and no rain. The
stone has been forwarded by the
government to the Asiatic society of
Bengal.
-Cervanies has often been suspected of
intending Don QHiIote for a political satire
on the Duke Of LeTma, and some recent
discoveries made by Mr.. Rawdon Brown,
in Venice, tend to raise the suspicion Ito
the rank of a literary fact. Having got at
the inner meaning of this famous romance,
by means of his direct discoveries, Mr..
Brown has devised a key to the characters,
by which many obscure parts of the satire
are brought into new light.
"A correspondent, describing the cere-
monies at the opening of the British Par
lament, says
:" A marked feature in the procession,
was the absence of the Prince of Wales
carriage. Ii is understood that his royal
highness did not accompany the Queen,
owing TO the disagreeable fact of his being
on the worst possible terms with his royal
mother. The family difference, or dis.
cord, is considered to arise from the cir
cumstances Of the intended marriage of
the Princess Helena with Prince Christian
of Augustenburg.
The educational movement in India
has become remarkably active indeed,
surprisingly active, when compared with
the indifference to intellectual culture that
prevailed among the natives but few
years ago. Year by year the numbers of
students in school and college increase and
the fact forms principal subject of con-
versation with the civil and military func-
tiOnaries who come home on leave. They
cannot yet quite see what it means. The
large hall of the new post Office at Cal
cutta, which covers the site of the never
tO-be-forgotten Black Hole, was crowded
during some days of last month (Decem-
ber) with native candidates, who had come
up for university examinations. As we
arc informed, the crowd comprised 1900
candidates for naturalization, of the age of
Is and upward, and SAT of two years
standing, for their first examination in arts.
1t is significant that among them all there
was not one Mussulman four-fifths were
Bengalese the remainder from other
provinces.
"A Paris letter, of a recent date says
The Sixth Battalion of the French Legion,
formed in the African Province of Oran,
and destined for Mexico, has just left that
country to join the five other regiments
| of the Legion now there. This reinforce
ment will give to the Legion an effective
| force of 1000 combatants; and when the
French troops retire from Mexico, this
Legion will remain there and change its
flag and nationality. These 7, 900 soldiers,
made up entirely by volunteering, and
composed for the most part of superior
| fighting material, will foIm the principal
safeguard of Macmillan. We would
like to ask in this connection what diff
ference there is in the political status OF
Macmillan Ois-a-Uis the United States
whether the French maintain Macmillan
themselves, by staying in the country, OF
whether they perpetuate him by forming
before they leave, and under their protec.
ton, force that will continue TO accom-
plish the work they were accomplishing?
| Where is the difference, if in either case
there is military force enough to prevent
a free expression of the will of the people
| "A recent London letter has the follow
ing in relation to two Of Rosa Bonheur's
pictures
Two of Rosa Bonheurs pictures are
on view at Ryman's picture gallery, the
larger displaying in marked manner that
simplicity in essentials, which, with due
subordinatiOn of non-essentials, is the very
essence of art. 1t represents family OF
red deer in the forest of Fountainbleau,
crossing the high platen, called "Les
LOnge Rochers," where the gray rock
crags out here in level sheets, there in fan
tastic, tumbled masses. The sky is cloudy
as after rain, with greenish-gray CLEAN
of light near the horizon, and the shadows
cast by the animals ON the scanty covering
of moss and dwarfed heather are of the
faintest kind. 1t is impossible to conceive
simplicity of representation carried further
or used more consistently. The other