Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-01-05
FOREIGN ITEMS.


A public anti-slavery meeting was held
on the 10th instant at Madrid. 1t was a
very large and important gathering, and
was addressed by some of the leading Span
ish orators. Senior OLozAGA, the parlia-
mentary chief of the liberal party, pr, sided.
The natives at Bombay, India, are re-
ported as being wild over the gas which
has been introduced for lighting the streets.
The lighting of the lamps in the evening
produces intense excitement. Long before
the time for lighting up has arrived, they
gather around the lamp posts and await
with great eagerness the approach of the
lamp lighter. When the burner is igni-
ted they become wildly excited, and then
sitting down, watch the Pickering of the
fame for hours, occasionally approaching
the post and feeling it to see fit is heated,
An English writer asserts that the use
of tea with insufficient food leads to a
craving for stimulants. He accounts in
this way for the opium eating of the Chi
nese. r.-fze ,
Stephens, the Fenian head-centre, is
said to be an excellent French scholar,
having translated several of Dickens
wo Is into that language FrE2
At tie close of the first performance Of
"LAfricaine" at Brussels, the curtain
rose, disclosing a bust of Meyerbeer, sur
rounded by the performers in costume.
The prima donna than crowned the bust,
and the rest of the company defled before
it, whilst the orchestra performed the
violin symphony.
Queen Victoria, when at home, regular
ly teaches q Sunday school and Bible class
for the benefit of those residing in the
Palace and its vicinity. How attentive
she is to her own children may be inferred
from a late pleasing c~ircustance. The
Archdeacon of London on one occasion
was catechising the young Princes, and, be-
ing surprised at the accuracy of their an
swers, said to the youngest Prince, "Your
governness deserves great credit for in
structing you so thoroughly in the cate
chism." Upon which the boy responded,
"Oh, but it is mamma who teaches us the
catechism." Many an American mother
can take a profitable hint from the Queenly
practice. 3
The criminal court of Berlin has been
lately occupied with the charge preferred
against NJ. Abelsdorf, printer of a pamph-
let entitled, "Life of the New Cesar who
is accused of insulting and eliminating
the Emperor Napoleon III. The French
Ambassador had demandeda prosecution.
The Court brought forward an objection
before examining the substance of the
charge. 1t desired to know if at the time
Of the publication in question, and since
that time, the French law was accustomed
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sovereigns; and invited the government
to obtain information on that point by
means of its diplomatic agents.
The sentence of imprisonment passed
upon Count Eulenburg, on account Of hi
murderous assault upon Prince Alfred's
French cook OFT, had hardly t~ranspired
at Bonn when that city was the theatre
of a new act of violence, which is also
said to have resulted in the death of tho
asssiled party. The assailant this time
is not a Prussian count, but a young Eng
fish gentleman attending the University
of Bonn, who recently at the theatre ap-
| piled his big stick with such tremendous
violence to the head of q young Prussian
physician that the latter's life is dcspaired
of. The young English student's excuse
is that he merely wanted to strike off the
doctors hat, that gentlemen having but a
few evening ago taken the same liberty
with another English student who had
omitted to remove his hat during the per-
Torrance. The young Englishmsn was
Immediately arrested by the police OF
Bonn, which body has at any rate shown
a greater alacrity in the performance OF
the duty in this instance than in that OF