The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-18


pondent OF the London Globe records as worthy
OF notice the death OF the last descendant OF the
Nabob Dupleix the celebrated Governor OF Pom
dichsrry. The coat ofarms granted him by
Louis xI, for the diplomatic triumph gained BY
MIN over the English in India, the correspondent
says, glittered for the last time over the portal
OF SAINT Philippe du Roule, as the modest
coffin which contained the last of the Duplex
was borne out to the cemetery. OF the great
siege OF Pondicherry, OF the glory and magmd-
cence Of Duplex, of his riches aud his disgrace,
of his humiliation of his poverty and miserable
death, nothing is remembered now. Even the
tete which he had instituted at Perna his native
place, to celebrate the raising of the siege OF
Pondicherry, has long been discontinued for
want of the funds which he had intended to
be annually devoted to the dowry of one
OF the village maidens. He died In the
most abiect poverty, after having at his COM
mand whole mulutudes of men and millions of
rupees: and the iaithless agent charged bv him
with the settlement of the perpetual fund tor
the good work Of which he had been dreaming
for years beneath the hot, scorching sun of
India, and amid the strife and blcodshed with
which he was surrounded, never having sunk
the money, the celebration OF the one great
souvenir of his life, that too has passed away,
and his very name is now no more. When the
Ministere des Finances was entered by the mob
In $780, the last appeal OF Dupleix, imploring
settlement OF his claim of thirteen millions
AGAINST the Government, was thrown out among
other papers scattered to the winds. II fell into
the hands OF the Professor of Philosophy at the
College Louis le Grand, who had it framed and
glazed, and hung up IN his classroom, where it
afterwards served as an Illustration TO many and
many lesson or vanity Of riches, and the Varied
conformation of the wings they make to them
selves when they flee away.
WIDTH OF THE STREETS OF LoNDoN.-There are
in the city of London iour hundred and
forty streets, and in only seventy OF them is
there room for more than two lines of vehicles
TO pass at time Tor the entire length.
In one hundred and eleven streets one line
of vehicles only can pass; one hundred
and one has no exit, and are not thoroughfaTes
at all.
The BRITISH PooR.-The amount expended
for the relief of the poor in 655 unions and
parishes of England and Wales, during the
half year ending Michaelmas, 1865, was G2, 49,
2l6, being an increase of Gl2.26l as COM
pared with 1864 The population OF those
unions and parishes was L., 1886, ,l04, according
to the census OF 1861.
"BIsMARoUERn u M. Bismarks name (says
the Paris correspondent OF the London IImes)
is likely to take Its place IN the slang French
vocabulary. II appears that when person is
suspected of foul play at cards or billiards he
is said TO "bismarquer," as equivalent to
''tricher," and the insnuation is resented as an
insult.
NEWSPAPERS PROHIBITED IN PRUssIA.-Among
the newspapers whose circulatian is forbidden
in Prussia are the Press and the Neeo Free
Press, Of Vienna, the Reform, of Hamburg, the
North German Gazette, OF Hanover the Baed,
Of Berne, the Stats Zeltung, OF New York, the
Hermann, of London, and the Kotokot of Geneva.
DUEL.-A fatal duel was recently fought in
the environs OF Paris by two officers OF the
| garrison. One OF them was killed on the spot;
the other had his breast pierced, it is believed,
| mortally. The doctors horse, as he was leaving
| the field. took fright, threw him against tree,
| and killed him on the spot
| TIE VALENTINE BUSINESS IN ENGLAND.-Tne
| number OF the mlssives called valentines in
| creased in England lest year to $4,000, against
| $4,000 in 1864, and nearly one.fourth of the
| whole number posted in London were in the
western district.
The ART COLLECTIONS AT DRESDEN REMovED.-
| The magnificent collections OF paintings, china,
| ancient vases, cameos and other works of art
at Dresden, have been removed from the mu-
seums TO the fortress of the city for greater
| safety.
BHooTAN.-The whole cost of the Bhootan war
in India, up to February last is computed at two
| hundred and eighty thousand pounds sterling.
A famine is said 10 have broken out in the inte-
rior Of Bhootan, and the lower orders are the
| sufferers
| CIRCUS OWNER PERTURBED.-The Rhenish
| CARTE states that M. REM, the manager of a
| circus, has been summoned to deliver up his
| horses tor the use OF the army. He has sent a
| remonstrance TO Berlin by telegraph.