The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-01-09
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

Recent advices from Paris convey the in
telligence of the death of M. Bixio, one of the
most popular and useful of French statesmen.
He will chiefly be remembered on account of
the part he took in the revolutions of 1880 and
184S. While fighting in the latter instruction
M. Bixio was wounded before barricade I'm
der the Presidency of the present Emperor NJ
Bixio accepted Office as Minister of Commerce,
but he resigned that post at an early period on
discovering that he was required to give up
foreign dispatches to the President without
opening them. At the time of the coap a. etat
he took an active part in the opposition to the
Prince President, and was arrested and thrown
into prison at Mazas, where he renamed for
some weeks. After his release he retired from
political life, and devoted himself to scientific
pursuits and financial enterprises. He was
devoted partizan of the late Count Cavour and
supporter Of the party of italian unity. One
of his sons was in the regular italian army, and
his brother General Bixio followed Garibaldi
in his Neopolitan expedition
The marriage of the Princess Anna Murat
with the Duke de Mouchy has just been cele-
brated with great pomp. Some little gossip
was ELECTED among the Parisians by the absence
from the ceremony of the Prince Napoleon
While the marriage of his cousin was being SOL
emnized he was attending the funeral of the Re
publican statesman, NJ Bixio, following the
cortege on foot as one of the chief mourners.
The Algerian question is the cause of wide
discussions in the French Cabinet The mass
of the native population is much dissatisfied in
consequence of the delays and postponements
which have taken place in the execution of the
reforms which the Emperor's visit led the ma
tives to anticipate. Some uneasiness is felt in
high quarters as to the effect this may have on
the African colony.
The passage of the Bosphorus and Darda-
delles by night is about to be opened to steamers
of all flags and classes
A specimen of virgin gold has been discov-
cred in small stream in Cornwall, England
1t measures nearly three inches in length and
two and one-quarter inches in diameter and
weighs rather more than two ounces.
A Masonic lodge in Palermo has excom-
municated the Pope. This accommodation
was taken in retaliation for the Examinations
against freemasonry launched from the Vati-
can. The brothers of the Palermo lodge de-
clare that "a man named Mastai Ferretti once
received the Masonic baptism, and swore love
and fraternity to the Masons, and that after
wards this man was created pope and king un-
der the title of Plus TX"
Two French engineers are about to leave
Parisfor Judea where they are about to direct
the construction of railway already commenc-
ed there. Think of railway in the Holy Land,
says the Independence Beige; of Bethlehem sta
ton, and the Golgotha refreshment rooms!
M. Lindback, the Swedish clergyman who
was accused of poisoning by wholesale while
administering the communion, has committed
suicide by hanging himself in prison ~
The French and English ambassadors, with
their wives, children, and officials, quilted a
grand court fete at Berlin, in huff, because at
the marriage of the King of Prussia's neice to
German Duke, no places had been provid ed
for them at the royal table. 9s
= AN italian sauamt is said to have discover
ed process by which sounds may be trans
mitted by an electrical process any distance, so
that two persons-one in Rome and the other
in Paris may converse together, recognizing
the sound of each others voice.
The mandatory of st. Gobian, Aisne,
France, has been employed six years in fabricat-
ing lens two feet in thickness, which it has
now given as present to the Observatory of
Paris, for the large telescope in course Of being
manufactured, the power of which will exceed
that Of the most powerful instruments known.