The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-30

Rome, and retouched by his skilful pencil, we're
taken for originals of the great masters by the
Duke of Lerma, who was in ecstacies over the
sumptuous gifts of the Duke Of Mantua. These
pictures are probably still put down as originals
in Spanish catalogues, and the list OF them th at
n. Baschet is going to publish will cause disap.
pointment 10 their actual possessors.
The remarkable discovery of Dante's re.
mains at RavennS last summer was commented
on in the papers at the time. 1t is, however,
but recently that the official report of the com
MISSION of the Italian Government has been
made public. writer in the June number OF
the CornhaU Magazine gives an account OF his
difficulties in finding the report. After exami-
nations Of all the libraries in Florence, he az
last received information that the report was in
the Office of the Minister OF Public Instruction,
where, after several visits, he found it. The
report was not printed until last fail, and had
never been published. 1t contains full details
OF the finding Of the wooden chest containing
the remains and of the measurement and exami-
nation of the bones The registers of the con
vent searched, and all the data obtained that
could be OF the removal of the bones from the
sepulchre, and the reasons therefor. The cavity
of the Uranium was filed with rice, in order to
ascertain the probable weight of the brain.
The rice weighed 313l9 pounds avoirdupos.
On careful comparison, the mask of the poet
preserved IN the Utfizi gallery, Florence, was
found 10 be in all respects similar in con-
6guIation to the cranium found at Rdvenna.
The length of the nasal bones agreed precisely,
and the same remark applies to all other parts
which admitted OF measurement.
The citizens OF Rouen are desirous oferectng
a monument to Jeanne Dare. and wish to attach
to it the celebrated "Tour du Donjon" which
belongs to the Ursulne convent of that place.
Objections we're made to alternating the property
Of the church; but subsequent Investigations
showing that it was possible to sell the tower
separately from the convent, the Archbishop of
Rouen, Cardinal de Bonnpchose, has given his
consent, and the Tour de Jeanne Darc' is to
become the property of the city of Rouen, and
be connected With an expiatory monument to
the liberatress of France.
The first volume of the "Memoirs Of Maxi.
milan, Emperor of Mexico" is announced by
Leipsic publisher 1t is = reproduction of the
account of the Emperors travels, of which a
very few copies, issued from the imperial print.
ing press OF Vienna, had been distributed to
members of the imperial family and to a few
intimate friends, with a request not to publish
any extract. This prohibition must have been
removed, unless the Leipsic publisher has
obtained a copy surreptitiously, and is printing
it without the consent of the author
M. Lamartne's affairs, which are in their
chronic condition of collapse, have lately been
taken into consideration by the Council of Min
listers in France, one of whom, NJ. Rouher, is
said to have proposed to give the needy poet
and defunct statesman pension of forty thou
sand francs for life, on condition of his making
over to the State all his liabilities and assets.
Lamartine declined the proposition, and intends,
it is sald to settle in Sicily.
The Society of the History of French Pro.
testants is about to exhibit interesting collec
ton Of old manuscripts, of tne first books pub
lshed by the promulgators of their faith, and
of medals and portraits relating to the early his
tory of the Reformation.
Miss Margaret Hewitt, in her Twelve
Months in Sweden with Fredrika Bremer,"
mentions a portrait of Cromwell, at Gripsholm
which is probably the one sent to Queen
Christina in Cromwell's name, with copy of
Latin verses by Milton.
The late James Sheridan Knowles left a
posthumous play, which is on the eve of pub
lication, under the title of True Unto Death.
Originally written as an opera, it was recently
produced as drama in two acts at the Strand
Theatre, with moderate success.
M. Gustave Dore is about to publish his
illustrated edition of "The Fables OF La Fon-
taine." 1t is said to contain some three hun
dred designs, for which he has made careful
studies, and is to be published in weekly mum.
bers, at fifty centimes each.
Marshal Mel intends, it is said, to criticize
Napoleon's Life of Cesar" in the Reoue
Francois.
M. Thiers lately made visit to Prince
Napoleon, much to the astonishment of the
small world of Paris. He has become very
popular since his last speech in the chambers.
MIR. P. c. Headley and Mr.. or General L. G.
Baker, the chief of Mr.. Stanton's detective force
during the Rebellion, are preparing together a
history of that bureau.