The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-06
FOREIGN GLEANINGs.


Der, or a borough member, not actually en-
gagged in trade, who lives within the authority
of paving and lighting committee. who votes
at municipal elections, or who shares TO any
sensible degree in the life led by the inha-
btants of any English town. The consequences
of this social anomaly, which is peculiar to
England alone among countries, are seen
every day in the feeble and unsatisfactory
development of our municipal life in the
absence of any steady effort to make our cities
what they might be, centres of art as well as
industry, of intelligence as well as capital,
homes full of rich and varied, though dis
tinctly English life. No man. eminent in the
land, ever says with pride that he belongs to
Liverpool or Manchester, Leeds or Bristol,
Birmingham or Sheffield"
New FoRTs.-The Notifications on the coast
of the bay of Kiel, begun by the Prussians i'm
mediately after the Danish war, are nearly
completed. They consist of four forts:-One
north of Fredrchsort, on the Brauneberg, one
at Friedrichsort itself, and two on the opposite
shore at Laboe and M0ltenort. The first two
are in Schleswig and the others in Holstein.
OF these the works at Friedrichsort, Laboe,
and M0ltenort existed in part during the
Schleswig- -Holstein war of lS4S. The most
important of the forts is that on the Braune-
berg, which covers that at Friedrichsort, and,
together with those at Laboe and Moltenort, is
capable of attacking an enemy advancing into
the bay with cross fire. This fort is armed
with twelve rifed seventy-two Founders of
cast steel-the heaviest artillery hitherto used
in the Prussian army or navy. The huge
Krupp cannon now at the Paris Exhibition will
also, it is said, be placed on the Brauneberg.
THE PRIVILEGED AND THE UNPRIvmEaED.-
Six persons, three of whom are girls, are in
jail in Bodwin, England, their offense being a
Sunday afternoon stroll in the grounds of Sir
Coleman Rashleigh. correspondent of the
London Spectator, giving the particulars of
this case, AYERS that public highway has run
through the grounds in question for the past
seventy years. and adds:-'It is very probable
that the prisoners, during their walks (the
male prisoners constituting one party and the
female another, and each far apart from the
other), diverged from the pathway to gather
whortleberries. Master Rashlegh, son of the
proprietor, was also out for walk, and, whilst
doubtless looking from nature up to natures
God, saw those grave offenders, and in due
course got them summoned before Colonel
'Garibaldi's Englishman l'-convicted,
and sentenced to twenty-one days. imprison-
ment."
FRENCH WIT.-The French wits are still
making fun of the profusion of decorations
which the royal visitors left behind them. In
ChdTtUdrt Cham has picture of a stout matron,
who has appropriated half her husbands S
orders on the plea that as he had rather
weak chest, the doctor was afraid it would do
him harm to carry all the jewels himself.
Another sketch shows man starting back in
astonishment as he suddenly comes on a friend
in the street, with his breast glittering with
decorations. "Ah, you see," exclaims the
friend, 81 live just opposite the Elysee"-the
palace where the Car and the Sultan had
their quarters. 'For wonder" says another
man. looking at the sky, 'there are still some
stars left to sparkle up there. l fancied they
had all been taken down for JoutonniereS."
THE DUKE OF HAMnToN's RACING TRANsAc-
TIoNs.-Vice Chancellor Stuart had before him
in London on the 18th of July, the case OF
the Duke of Hamilton against Robinson. This
was a motion on behalf of the defendant, Mr..
William Robinson, to dissolve an er pGrte in
junction which had been granted by the VicC
Chancellor on previous day, on the applica
tion of counsel for the Duke of Hamilton, to re
strain Mr.. Robinson from suing the Duke ol
two bills of exchange for the sum of fl3, 400
OF which $4,000 was for the purchase of race
horses from Mr.. Robinson, which, it wa
said, proved to be of little or no value on bein
examined by Mr.. Rowlands, the Duke
trainer, although they were sold to the Duk
as valuable racehorses. The injunction wa
dissolved.
A COSTLY TABLE FOR THE SULTAN.-Althoug
not publicly participating in the London d.
monstrations in honor of the Sultan's visit
England, Birmingham took part. A massiy
and ornate table has been made there for tn
Sultan. The table, which is of circular form
and about six feet in diameter was intende
for the Paris Exhibition, but owing to IL
great amount of work in it, it could not
completed in time. The materal is electr
plate, panelled on the upper surface in ar
besques, and richly engraved with represent
tions of fruit and flowers. The border, CO.
sisting of raised clusters of fruit and flower
parcel gilt, is of very bold design. The valI
of the work is two thousand FIVE hundr'
dollars.
A HINT TO COOPERATIVE SoCIETIEs.--A mi
named Parkinson, cotton operative, W
charged on the Sth ultimo with a singul
attempt to defraud the Rochdale Pioneers
operative Society in England. The socie
allows discount on purchases, and to email
the purchaser to obtain this gives tin chec
representing the amount spent, which entitl
the holder to a dividend at the end of t
quarter. Parkinson had two thousand of the
manufactured, but the maker, finding tn
were not for a legitimate purpose COMPEL
him to return them.
DESTRUCTION OF A VILLAGE BY FIRE.-T
village of Chatelard, Savoy, consisting
about one hundred houses, has Just been {
stroyed by fire. The buildings all bel
rooted with thatch, the flames spread VI
remarkable rapidity. The only ones spar
were the church and the cures residence,
police station and the marie, all of VIII
happened to be isolated. More than ell
hundred persons are rendered homeless:
greater part of the families are cOmplet
ruined, the companies having refused to eff
assurances in consequence of the great risk
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